Supermarket Strategic AlertSupermarket Strategic Alert provides efficient, fact-packed shortcuts for everyone who sells to, competes against, or works with supermarkets in the United States and worldwide.With retail channels blurring and Internet competition increasing, it is more important than ever to be informed about issues affecting supermarkets. The editors of Supermarket Strategic Alert follow global developments—from price wars in Europe to new grocery auction Web sites. Supermarket Strategic Alert steers you through this fast-changing environment with information on consolidation, strategic alliances, alternate channel developments, supply chain improvements and consumer trends. For over 10 years, leading supermarketers, competing retailers, manufacturers, foodservice suppliers, growers, technology suppliers, outsourcing and logistics specialists, advertising and promotion agencies, consultants, brokers, government agencies and many others worldwide have depended on Supermarket Strategic Alert as a valuable industry resource. |
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List of reports from Supermarket Strategic Alert
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Alternate Channels
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... and its impact on all retailers. In the past year, Wal-Mart has been in the news for flirting again with banking, for its site selection, its long-term influence on communities (from rural to urban) and ...
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Annual Industry Reviews
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... financial and industry analysts increasingly focus on the global nature of grocery retailing. Supermarkets continue to be well-represented on lists of largest privately held companies, despite continued sales of these companies to publicly traded chains. ...
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Supermarket Technology
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... cases and pallets so identified by January 2005. The upshot was that by year-end, other major retailers including Target and Albertsons had also announced plans…and Dallas distribution centers became the focus of early efforts. All ...
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Brands, Private Label & Advertising
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... about whether their advertising actually works, whether line extensions are new enough to be considered innovation and the cruel reality that if a product is not #1 or #2 in its category, it may not ...
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Supermarkets: Labor & Leadership
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... community clout and top line sales and profits. The union—while steadfastly standing by its members—lost power by finally having to accept health care cuts and a two-tier pay structure to preserve jobs. In part because ...
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Supermarket Promotion & Loyalty
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... issued were redeemed. Moreover, manufacturers continue to run into problems with Web-delivered coupons to be redeemed at retail, so it is unlikely that the status quo will change anytime soon. Tesco, most often cited for ...
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Supermarket Shoppers
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... traditional age, family size and income demographics. FMI introduced nine new psychographic groupings for segmentation. Unfortunately, most are based on some disheartening truths: (1) most do not consider grocery shopping fun, (2) quick trips are ...
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Supermarket Strategies &Trends
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... some point the equilibrium could shift. Interestingly in the drive for efficiency, real estate is becoming a focus, both because urban areas offer such customer concentration and because outlying areas can be cheap to operate ...
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American Diet & Food Safety
1/2/2005 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... to incorporate low/no-carbohydrate alternatives. By midyear, trend watchers were saying the preference had peaked and by year end inventories were stuffed into every corner of the supply chain—waiting to be scrapped. Diet still remained in ...
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Clicks-and-order e-Tailers
1/2/2004 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... boasted almost 100,000 customers by the end of the year. By year end, Fresh Direct had not only satisfied its customers by cooking their Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, but had satisfied its banks as well ...
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Consolidation & Globalization
1/2/2004 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... the supermarket industry, acquisitions were geographically confined, due to declining performance of the major chains, which made so many acquisitions in past years. Evidence of this is A&P’s trimmed store count and Supervalu’s exit from ...
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Supermarket Formats & Store Design
1/2/2004 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... formats included new dollar stores from conventional operators, convenience stores from mass merchants—all confirming the channel blurring trend. Supermarketers focused on making the front end more targeted to shoppers and more profitable by tailoring assortments.
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Legal & Regulatory Developments
1/2/2004 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... among other retailers and underscored that passivity was no longer acceptable management—especially in view of earlier settlements by leading industry players. The federal government found plenty of time to irk manufacturers and retailers alike with ...
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Banking and Financial Services in Supermarkets
1/2/2004 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... charging elsewhere and generating loyalty points. Starbucks was the first with a debit/cash card for coffee and credit card in one. (3) Some are installing kiosks for additional services, including money orders, cashing pay checks ...
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Supermarkets: 2003 Lead Stories
1/2/2004 | published by: Supermarket Strategic Alert
... inherent weak spots in the sector as a whole: an inefficient business model, debatable accounting practices and concentration that borders on oligopoly. Ahold moved from darling to demon beginning in February. Previously praised for double-digit ...
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