Why One Grocery Store Plans Fewer Sales, And Another Plans More
Which is better, more sales or fewer sales? Two grocery chains are trying out two different approaches.
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How Do Your Store Brands Stack Up?
A new survey ranks grocery stores based on the quality of their private-label products.
How Much Do You “Like” Your Grocery Store?
You may like your local grocery store just fine, but it takes a real commitment to show the world – or at least your Facebook friends – that you “like” it. Occasional customer satisfaction surveys have declared certain supermarkets to be the most or least liked of all, but a look at how many grocery shoppers have hit the thumbs-up[Read More…]
Celebrate Earth Day With Grocery Coupons & Savings
After a week like this one, we could all use a little something to celebrate this weekend. And many of your local stores are helping out, by offering coupons, sales and freebies in honor of Earth Day. Target has the biggest giveaway on offer this Sunday. The chain will be handing out 1.5 million reusable bags, along with $40 worth[Read More…]
Why a Grocery Store You’ve Never Heard of Could Be the Next Big Thing
Whole Foods has been quite successful doing what it does, but competitors always seem to pop up, promising to do even better. Winn-Dixie is remaking some of its stores to be “like Whole Foods but cheaper“. Fresh & Easy was touted as having “Whole Foods quality with Walmart pricing” (and look at how well that worked out for them). Now,[Read More…]
Whole Foods No Longer Wants Your “Whole Paycheck”
Whole Foods expects to make $13 billion this year. It’s more than a third of the way toward its goal of having 1,000 stores, it’s surged ahead on a new list of the best-performing U.S. companies, and its customers are buying more – and more expensive – stuff. And its stock tanked today. Shares of the company were down more[Read More…]
Facebook’s Top Grocery Store Takes on Twitter
The grocery chain that already dominates Facebook and perennially tops customer satisfaction surveys is now setting its sights on a new conquest: Publix has officially joined Twitter. It may not seem like big news for fans of other grocery chains that have been tweeting for years. But Publix has a fanatically loyal fan base, and where Publix goes, fans follow.[Read More…]
News To Snooze To: The Least Popular Stories of 2012
As promised, a counterpart to yesterday’s Top Stories of 2012. Just for fun, here’s a look at some stories you probably missed in 2012. For whatever reason, these just didn’t seem to resonate. Some are worth a look – others, well, maybe there’s a reason no one wanted to read them the first time around. 11. Wealthy Island is Grocery[Read More…]
“Whole Foods Quality With Walmart Pricing” Doesn’t Quite Work Out
“Fresh & Easy”? More like Costly & Failing. The British owner of the California-based, no-frills grocery store chain says it may be time to pack it in. At a time when ALDI is taking the U.S. by storm, Fresh & Easy represented another foreign-owned small-format grocer when it arrived on U.S. shores five years ago. It expanded to about 200[Read More…]
Talking Turkey and Other Thanksgiving Tidbits
On this day before Thanksgiving, we offer you what you usually don’t get until the day after Thanksgiving: leftovers! Here are some Thanksgiving tidbits to enjoy before the big day: Target’s Turkey is Tops “We aren’t in the business of high-low pricing or gimmicks,” a Walmart executive sniffed, in reaction to competitors’ deals on Thanksgiving staples. Too bad, because Target[Read More…]
