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From disruptions to previously unimaginable threats, the food industry braces for a new reality post-Sept. 11. Before Sept. 11, no one could have imagined a group of food industry associations [...]

Will Brick-and-mortar supermarkets exist in the future? How important will factors such as price and variety be? What new technologies will impact the industry? Several experts offer their predictions. In [...]

Want to know what the future of your business is going to look like? Scenario planning is a simple tool for bringing the future--and the present--into much clearer focus. THERE [...]

As they world becomes increasingly wired, traditional food retailers risk losing upscale, high-margin customers to electronic-commerce marketers. Some Cybercapitalists see globalization as the key that will finally open the door [...]

Why the future industry model will be based around value innovation, innovation in products and innovation in shopping experience. Editor's Note: As part of its 75th Anniversary celebration, Progressive Grocer [...]

Frozen food is again becoming a hot topic in retailing. But the big question is not how high sales can go, but how much they will it away if perimeter [...]

At this stage of its development, category management is still more art than science--an evolving process of understanding the value chain and a way of looking at the total distribution [...]

After proving it can perform reasonably well without a heavy dose of inflation, the industry entered 1995 decidedly confident about its immediate future. Most grocers--independents, in particular--expect across-the-board improvements in [...]

When Ron Pearson, president of Hy-Vee Stores, surveys the competitive landscape for the coming year, he's not crazy about what he sees. There will be as many as 10 new [...]

Year after year, the industry's outlook has a certain sameness. Each year there are a multitude of problems littering the horizon and each year there is a certain sense of [...]

Produce departments are performing ever more robustly, and that puts greater pressure on buyers and suppliers. A new study pinpoints potential problems and opportunities. The complicated business of produce buying [...]

In weather terms, the industry's outlook for the coming year is comparable to partly cloudy conditions. There are glimmers of optimism, but pessimism, fueled by a host of worries, looms [...]

Supermarket executives are cautiously optimistic, at best, about the year ahead. But most are trying to make the best of a bad situation by looking for ways to cut costs [...]

As the food distribution industry moves closer to the dawn of the era of electronic commerce, retailers will find more and more reasons to adopt a controlled-label program - beginning [...]

The hottest issue for brokers is not any of those they are now confronting, but how they will evolve in the rest of this decade and into the 21st century. [...]

What does the future hold for private label? To find out, Progressive Grocer spoke with Brian Sharoff. Here he discusses private label in the supermarket, how it relates to competition [...]

* Dot.com businesses the world over may be experiencing problems, including those in the grocery industry to some degree, but a new study by Datamonitor suggests the online grocery market [...]

Industry growth in 2001 will continue in fits and starts with bricks and clicks. The little economic engine that could is starting to sputter a bit, and the naysayers are [...]

Restaurants will eat grocery's lunch this decade unless grocers do a better job marketing products--especially--as meals. No matter what it's eventually decided to call this first decade of the new [...]

Members of the British Retail Consortium have expressed concern that there will be a shortage of euro notes on Jan. 1, 2002, forcing UK retailers to close their mainland stores. [...]

This Christmas is shaping up to be lackluster, with supermarket sales expected to grow only 3% in the fourth quarter, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Last year, sales were [...]

Retailers near the Canadian border should start stocking up on cigarettes now that the Canadian government has announced its plan to return to the high tobacco-tax policies it abandoned in [...]

As online grocery shopping becomes big business, publishers are plagued by the possibility that checkout sales may suffer. Publishers may have reason to gripe about current newsstand conditions: Costs continue [...]

Online exchanges sprouting to move everything from soup to nuts. If you blinked, you might have missed the emergence at the online food trading exchange industry. Like mushrooms after a [...]

Deli sales continue to improve and margins edge upward. Like the customer asking for a half-pound of bologna, retailers are finding their service deli sales were 'a little over' in [...]

Revolution or evolution--Independents map out strategies for the future. It's not the strongest species that survive...but the ones most responsive to change.' These words from evolutionist Charles Darwin during the [...]

What does the growing threat of Internet-based grocery retailers such as Peapod.com, HomeGrocer.com and Streamline Inc. mean for conventional stores? Should they invest precious resources to counter the competitive threat [...]

Nutritionally enhanced products get a makeover for the 21st century. The category generally referred to as functional foods is having an identity crisis. But whatever experts are calling it, and [...]

Will we ever know what consumers really want? Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn't ask the $1 million question--What will consumers want in the new millennium? Not being [...]

OUTLOOK Progressive Grocer ANNUAL REPORT The industry is wary but undaunted. The merger trend will continue. The stage is set for brutal competition. Forward buying will increase. Leaders are undercided [...]

* The industry entered 1984 in a demonstrably more confident mood. * Many problems have been downgraded from 'major' to 'moderate,' but concern about cut-throat competition has increased at store [...]

IN A WORLD WHERE CHANGE HAS BECOME A CLICHE, any description of an industry is hopelessly antiquated even before it's fully articulated. Yet, even given the implicit uncertainty of today's [...]

`The future industry model is going to be built around aligning the revenues and profits of companies with value creation--and value creators will be people who innovate creative products, and [...]

`First of all, food distribution is about people--it's about getting products to people so they can consume them,' says Richard D. Furash, national practice director, consumer intensive businesses, Deloitte & [...]

There's no question about it. Health care reform will be the most important issue before Congress this year. Government affairs experts agree that health care reform will take the Congressional [...]

By now everybody has heard about the growing power of the Hispanic market as a target for all kinds of goods and services, from apparel to food to entertainment. But [...]

Einstein once said imagination is the most underutilized resource. It is, at times, more important than intelligence. A few years ago, progressive retailers were finding that to succeed in non-foods [...]

As the food distribution business becomes increasingly more global, the impact of today's generational change will become more deeply felt. There is a silent changing of the guard occurring outside [...]

Overall, the forecast for the men's toiletries category is bright. Supermarkets garnered more than $771 million in sales last year, which is 5.75% higher than the previous year--the biggest gain [...]

1. What year will the supermarket be supplanted as the primary source for food and non-edible consumer packaged goods? Tom Compernolle, industry partner, food and drug distribution and retailing, Ernst [...]

Bishop sees two potential scenarios for food distribution, the first of which he calls the Amway Analog. 'The worst nightmare for supermarket operators and brand manufacturers alike would be the [...]

`Those who talk about the future are scoundrels,' Louis Ferdinand Celine wrote in Voyage au Bout de la Nuit. In retrospect, Celine may have been a little tough. Talking about [...]

Food Lion is making slow progress shaking the effects of the PrimeTime Live television report in November charging the chain with unsanitary meat-preparation conditions and other food safety problems--charges the [...]

The industry is facing a watershed re-evaluation of the way business is done. The result may be a new type of relationship among trading partners. No one in the industry [...]

It's going to be hard to miss 1992. The competition was murderous, the economy sluggish and the overall atmosphere bleak. But if you think 1992 was bad, just wait for [...]

Many retailers and wholesalers fear that the Clinton administration will impact negatively on the food business, but the feeling is not universal. 'I couldn't be more disturbed about the outcome [...]

The days of building supermarket foodservice departments for short-term gains are gone. Success will come from addressing specific foodservice objectives. The stench was overpowering and the silence was eerie as [...]

There's no doubt that the role of general merchandise has become increasingly important to supermarket sales and the realization of one-stop shopping. But what does the future hold? We asked [...]

OUTLOOK 1987 The Problems and Opportunities The outlook for 1987 can be described by such well-worn words and phrases as 'tough,' 'turbulent,' 'competitive,' 'uncertain economy,' 'overstored,' 'increasing costs,' 'store-format proliferation' [...]

The hot format at the moment is the super warehouse store, typified by Cub, Heartland, Edwards and Malone & Hyde's Megamarket, which is covered elsewhere in this issue. These units, [...]