When it comes to retailing, maybe the most unexpected surprise is that food retailing is just about the only enterprise that remains more or less as it was in the B.C. era (Before Corona). Consumers can still go to supermarkets […]
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Is it time to panic? The answer isn\’t farther than your nearest supermarket. You\’ll find that shoppers are voting with their shopping carts. Driven by the fear of being quarantined inside for who knows how long to shelter against coronavirus,
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Earth Fare, the chain of 50 natural and organic supermarkets, is as good as gone. The company has filed for Chapter 11 and announced that it will liquidate all store inventory and fixtures and close each store as it empties
The Walgreens and Kroger alliance started nearly a year and a half ago when these two retailers agreed that a selection of Kroger private brand products – mainly health and beauty lines – would be placed into a few Walgreens
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Fairway soon files for bankruptcy for the second time in recent years. Could total liquidation be far behind as reported by the New York Post? To generations of shoppers in New York City and its environs, Fairway has been a
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This is the tale of two paths to brand building. One approach is through careful message management and paying a lot to keep that control. The other way is to depend on free media – publicity generated by news coverage
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There is a lack of clarity of details surrounding Amazon\’s upcoming development of a food-store format that will be entirely distinct from its Whole Foods stores. This seems to be Amazon\’s M.O. when it comes to its new initiatives. That
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Surprisingly, Walgreens has a few new tricks up its sleeve. In fact, there are two major new-world developments in the works. Walgreens is poised to become the first retailer to fulfill product orders directly to consumers\’ residences by means of
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Oat milk is the latest new thing among the rapidly growing number of consumers who are ready to leave behind conventional animal-based milk in favor of \”milk\” made from plants. Some plant-milk adherents may be lactose intolerant or the like,
Why have investors gone nuts for Beyond Meat, the maker of a vegetable-based meat alternative? And \”nuts\” is an apt term. Beyond had its IPO in May at $25 per share that raised $240 million for Beyond and gave it
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