Supermarket Strategic Alert Research Reports

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Supermarket Strategies &Trends By: Supermarket Strategic Alert As channels blur and the race for efficiency intensifies, the nature of business is changing: Enter the possibility of monopsony in the food business. So far, competitive concentration has been driving pricing down, but at \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$60.00
Supermarket Technology By: Supermarket Strategic Alert In 2004, supermarket industry players focused on RFID (radio frequency identification). This singlemindedness began because of Wal-Mart’s (now the largest supermarket operator in the US) edict that its top 100 suppliers would have to ship \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$90.00
Supermarket Shoppers By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Despite the fact that everyone has to eat, supermarkets remain in a battle to retain shoppers. In an effort to do so, increasingly supermarkets look to ways to segment and understand their shopper base beyond \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$60.00
Annual Industry Reviews By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Industry tallies continue to show that concentration is increasing among the top operators, despite increasing numbers of stores. The big change this year is that in addition to the global focus of the pure numbers, \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$70.00
Alternate Channels By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Virtually every retail outlet is an ‘alternate channel’ for supermarkets, given all the outlets other than supermarkets selling food and supermarkets expanding their offerings beyond groceries. The most visible segment is discounters, attributable \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$150.00
Supermarket Promotion & Loyalty By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Despite protestation and press releases to the contrary, supermarkets still limit their promotions to newspaper coupons and loyalty cards. The reality of paper coupons remained the same for another year: more than 90% of those \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$60.00
American Diet & Food Safety By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Few things attracted as much attention and changed as quickly as consensus about the optimal diet and American food safety during 2004. At the beginning of the year, all food purveyors—manufacturers and foodservice establishments—were racing \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$65.00
Supermarkets: Labor & Leadership By: Supermarket Strategic Alert 2004 will likely be remembered for the settlement of the 4+ month long Southern California strike, where the only winners were the independents and alternate channels not involved. The major supermarket chains lost press and \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$90.00
Brands, Private Label & Advertising By: Supermarket Strategic Alert As consumers become better informed, increasingly value-conscious and more environmentally and politically concerned, brands and private labels and their advertising come under the microscope. Always striving for a point of differentiation, national brands faced \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2005	$90.00
Banking and Financial Services in Supermarkets By: Supermarket Strategic Alert As supermarkets look to squeeze out every penny, they are increasingly considering multiple avenues: (1) Some no longer accept shopper checks for payment because of processing charges. (2) Some are issuing proprietary cards good for \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2004	$40.00
Supermarkets: 2003 Lead Stories By: Supermarket Strategic Alert The big stories in the supermarket industry in 2003 were Ahold’s accounting scandal and its subsequent battle for survival, Fleming’s demise and the intricate maneuvering around the sale of Safeway UK. All the underscore the \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2004	$60.00
Consolidation & Globalization By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Consolidation and globalization in the supermarket industry extended past mergers and acquisitions during 2003. In the food manufacturing industry, since 2000 sales for the top ten food and beverage manufacturers have grown by 16%. With \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2004	$40.00
Clicks-and-order e-Tailers By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Just as soon as pundits agreed that bricks-and-mortar grocers had the inside track in grocery ecommerce, Fresh Direct invaded New York City with no storefront. To generate trial, it offered $50 in free perishables and \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2004	$40.00
Legal & Regulatory Developments By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Everyone continues to await whether the sex discrimination suit against Wal-Mart gets class action status. The discovery process made it clear that the magnitude of dollars and people involved is enormous. It also heightened sensitivity \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2004	$50.00
Supermarket Formats & Store Design By: Supermarket Strategic Alert Stores got larger and smaller in the last year. Bigger formats included Wild Oats, Sears Grand, Save-A-Lot/Deal$—all of which added departments as well as square footage. Smaller formats included new dollar stores from conventional operators, \| more... Search inside this report	1/2/2004	$40.00
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