Progressive Grocer

SUPERVALU University’s second installment of best practices education focuses on performance management, staffing and morale. This year, SUPERVALU University is working with Progressive Grocer to share insights from an organisational survey database of tested questions created to provide...

After consecutive years of flat sales and stale performance, in-store bakery department performance is on the rise, but there still remains ample room for continued improvement, according to the latest insights revealed in Progressive Grocer’s 2009 annual Bakery Operations...

With shopper traffic and trip frequency down across most retail channels in USA, consumers are carefully evaluating how and where they shop for food to prioritise the “bare necessities,” which mercifully include many fresh produce items.But as retail produce...

Two business drivers in food retail today stand to change the way equipment and design are conducted over the next decade. The first is the need to differentiate, as retailers look to set themselves apart in an increasingly competitive...

Tough times are challenging supermarket frozen food departments across the USA, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, in many ways the forces changing consumer spending habits and wreaking havoc on industry costs are benefiting the frozen...

Grocers’ technology departments haven’t been spared the effects of the tough economic climate. At the same time, however, technology is one area of retail operations that executives will turn to for solutions when times are tough. The result is...