A look at the trade show circuit

January 30, 2017 by David Pinto David Pinto, Food Marketing Institute, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, trade show 2017, Issue 01-30-2017, Issues, Opinion

Where will mass retailing executives be spending their out-of-office time in 2017? Surprisingly, fewer viable choices are immediately apparent, though the obvious ones — the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the Food Marketing Institute — still stand out. On the face of it, the broad selection of recent years has diminished, in part