March 25, 2024 by MMR
FMI - The Food Industry Association, nonfood, supermarkets
2024, Issue 03-25-2024
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Supermarket operators have sold nonfood products for decades, but they still aren’t getting their fair share of the business. Despite the frequent trips that shoppers make to the grocery store, the channel only accounts for 8% of volume in the health and beauty care, household products and general merchandise categories, according to
February 27, 2023 by Jeffrey Woldt
Anthony Hucker, Craig Boylan, FMI midwinter conference, Jeffrey Woldt, supermarkets
2023, Issue 02-27-2023, Issues, Opinion
Craig Boyan and Anthony Hucker, two of the retailers who spoke at the FMI Midwinter Executive Conference in Orlando, Fla., last month, offered particularly astute assessments of the state of the grocery business and the issues that now confront supermarket operators. After praising the industry’s proven ability to adapt to changing conditions — an especially
September 12, 2022 by Scot Meyer
FMI - The Food Industry Association, fresh food, Leslie Sarasin, Scot Meyer, supermarkets
2022, Issue 09-12-2022, Issues
Supermarkets have long used their perishable food departments to wow shoppers and to convey an image of food quality and freshness that helps elevate shoppers’ perceptions of the whole store. The importance of fresh food has only grown lately, as the pandemic led Americans to change their grocery shopping and cooking habits in ways that
June 20, 2022 by David Pinto
David Pinto, supermarkets
2022, Issue 06-20-2022, Issues, Opinion
Amid the myriad retailing developments that have distinguished — for good or ill — the retail landscape thus far in 2022, perhaps the most surprising (though not entirely unexpected) alteration has been the emergence (or reemergence) of the supermarket segment of the mass retailing community. If this re-ignition has taken some industry people by surprise,
April 19, 2021 by MMR
Amazon, supermarkets
2021, Issue 04-19-2021, Issues
NEW YORK — The battle for the future of the grocery business is under way as supermarket retailers invest in their digital capabilities and Amazon continues to roll out its brick-and-mortar food stores. Kroger Co. executives said during the company’s recent virtual investors conference that the company intends to double its digital business by 2023.
April 19, 2021 by Jeffrey Woldt
FMI, Jeffrey Woldt, supermarkets
2021, Issue 04-19-2021, Issues, Opinion
A new report from FMI elucidates the journey that the nation’s supermarkets have been on for the past 12 months and sheds light on their prospects. Based on survey responses from 52 member companies, representing some 40% of the industry, “Receipts From the Pandemic” charts the effects of the disruption in the marketplace triggered by
January 30, 2019 by MMR
Aldi, Retail Feedback Group., supermarkets, Walmart
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Topics
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. — Shoppers rate supermarkets highest in quality and variety compared with discounter rivals such as Aldi and Walmart. But the discounters score highest in terms of shopper perceptions of value. These and other ratings come courtesy of the “2019 U.S. Supermarket Experience Study,” released this week by the Retail Feedback Group, which
July 11, 2016 by MMR
2016 U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends, Food Marketing Institute, president and chief executive officer Leslie Sarasin, supermarkets
2016, Issue 07-11-2016, Issues
CHICAGO — More Americans than ever are shopping for food, and supermarkets are among shoppers’ most trusted allies when it comes to food safety and health and wellness. These two encouraging trends for food retailers were identified by Food Marketing Institute president and chief executive officer Leslie Sarasin in her presentation of the institute’s “2016
March 21, 2016 by David Pinto
David Pinto, Kroger, Newark ShopRite, ShopRite, supermarkets
2016, Issue 03-21-2016, Issues, Opinion
Many of the exciting new supermarkets appearing throughout the country these days are not coming from the usual sources. Rather, they’re products of retailers not normally associated with new, different, exciting or groundbreaking. Examples abound. Kroger’s newest supermarkets — like the recently opened stores in Cincinnati — are large superstores with a complete assortment of