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Last year was one of the most difficult and challenging of the past decade as the economy softened, consumer demand became even more unpredictable and Wall Street's attentions, lavishly thrown [...]

Puget Consumers Co-Op is learning to balance member requests that revolve around ethical, political and environmental issues with efficiency strategies such as category management. If traditional retailers feel they have [...]

Every year, the supermarket business gets a little bit tougher. And every year, industry observers predict the demise of the independent operator. Fortunately, the 191 retailers on our Honor Roll [...]

Few independents face tougher chain competition than Ron Edenfield. His nine Wayfield Foods stores in Atlanta go up against Kroger, Winn-Dixie, Publix and Cub. So how has Edenfield managed to [...]

Imagination was the vital principle in the entries for the 7th Annual IDDA-PG Awards for Retailing Excellence. With today's fascination with things prehistoric (as in the hit movie Jurassic Park), [...]

Stores nominated as outstanding independent grocers are listed alphabetically by state. Each listed store was nominated in one or more of five categories: outstanding progress, employee relations, creative merchandising, crisis management or competition. Information included for each listed store includes location and owner's or operator's name.

Byline: Joseph Tarnowski NGA's new Online Training & Education Center is a great tool for bringing new associates up to speed on all sorts of issues important to independent grocers. [...]

PGI's first stand-alone Outstanding Independent Awards Reception, held during the National Grocers Association (NGA) show this past February in Las Vegas, was a big hit for all. More than 100 [...]

Byline: Joseph Tarnowski As the headline notes, 'easy' seemed to be the theme that spanned the innovations of Progressive Grocer Tech's second annual Innovation Awards. Geissler's developed an online platform [...]

Befitting a country settled by immigrants, many of the entries in the nationwide 8th Annual IDDA-PG Awards for Retailing Excellence featured merchandising displays and events celebrating cuisines and cultures from [...]

Byline: Joseph Tarnowski While the winners of Progressive Grocer Tech's inaugural Innovation Awards may have implemented different types of technologies, each one shared a common theme of making its grocery [...]

Byline: Meg Major Although we didn't get a chance to meet personally during our recent visit to your company's amazing corporate headquarters in late August, I'm reaching out to relay [...]

Byline: Michelle Moran 2010 marks the third year Progressive Grocer has recognized those industry leaders dedicating themselves to social responsibility through green initiatives, with our Green Grocer Awards.'It's such a [...]

MOM's - My Organic Market has received the highest score among 'Green Seafood Grocers' chosen by Greenpeace. The grocer garnered 84 out of a possible 100 points, putting it at [...]

Fresh produce marketer The Sholl Group II's Green Giant Fresh Teriyaki Stir-Fry received an iParenting Media Award from the Disney Internet Group, and a media site focused on parents.The Green [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Bi-Lo 284 of Summerville, S.C. and Seitter's Market of New Haven, Mo. won grand prizes in the annual National Rice Month Store Promotion Contest, sponsored by USA [...]

LUBBOCK and TYLER, Texas -- United Supermarkets, LLC and Brookshire Grocery Co. made this year's list of 'Best Companies to Work for in Texas,' issued by the Texas Association of [...]

TORONTO -- The Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers (CFIG) presented the Canadian Independent Grocer of the Year Awards, the CFIG Master Merchandising Awards, and the Arnold Rands Heritage Awards at [...]

LUFKIN, Texas -- Brookshire Bros. Grocery yesterday recognized Florham Park, N.J-based price optimization solution provider KSS Retail as its Marketing Vendor of the Year, making KSS the first technology vendor [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The USA Rice Federation here has awarded the Independent Retailer of the Year Award to a Shop 'n Save in Weirton, W.Va. With displays throughout the store [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Community-based independent Longo Brothers Fruit Markets, Inc., headquartered in Mississauga, Ont., took the grand prize for grocery design at the National Association of Store Fixture Manufacturers (NASFM) [...]

Proressive Grocer celebrates the 2000 ProGro and Cannondale PoweRanking Award winners. The cream of the crop in the retailing and manufacturing of food and non-foods gathered Oct. 18 at the [...]

* Save Mart Supermarkets, Modesto, Calif., recently won top honors in the Florida Tomato Committee's Produce Nutrition Education Contest for its school tours featuring Vitamin Alley-otherwise known as the produce [...]

THE 1999 RETAIL PROGRO AWARDS, SELECTED BY members of the manufacturing community, are broken down into six categories: perimeter merchandising (meat, seafood, poultry, deli, bakery and produce); deli/prepared foods; customer [...]

Progressive Grocer celebrates the 1999 ProGro and Cannondale PoweRanking Award winners. Remodeling has always been the hallmark of the food industry. It simply comes at a more rapid pace these [...]

* The deadline for the fourth annual Creative Choice Awards sponsored by the National Grocers Association and Food Distributors International is Nov. 29. The awards honor the best in supermarket [...]

Supermarkets dominated this years' Magazine Publishers of America's Best Practices Awards, presented last month in Washington, D.C. at the association's Retail Conference 2004: The Marketing of Magazines and Books. Six [...]

364 Who Survived And Thrived Vince Luetkenhaus knows how hard the life of an independent grocer can be. The Missouri operator survived a flood unharmed, only to have his sales [...]

OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENTS: A SALUTE TO THE YEAR'S BEST The economic lifeblood of the community that an independent serves had a lot to do with whether 1985 was an easy or [...]

As the composition of the supermarket industry shifts due to new formats, chain closings, wholesaler consolidation and other factors, a new breed of independent grocer has emerged. Young, educated and [...]

Selecting one Retailer of the Year from among the many ballots received from all segments of the food industry wasn't an easy task. For that reason, Progressive Grocer has also [...]

The best thing about focusing the weight of an entire issue of PROGRESSIVE GROCER on a single topic is that it forces us to look long and hard at what's [...]

The most successful companies in the consumer packaged goods industry are those that have mastered the discipline of category management. Target Stores, Kraft Foods, and Advantage Sales & Marketing have [...]

To say that Stater Bros. was honored to be named a PROGRESSIVE GROCER 2001 Retailer of the Year would be an understatement. The Colton, Calif.-based chain wasted no time after [...]

The Food Marketing Institute honored two prominent industry figures at its Midwinter Executive Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Supervalu chairman Mike Wright received the 2002 Sidney R. Rabb Award, which recognizes [...]

Syracuse, N.Y. independent Green Hills Farms was recently given a 1 to 1 Innovator Award by the Peppers and Rogers Group for its outstanding customer-driven solutions. Since 1993 the company [...]