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Study eyes grocers’ long-term future

Mass Relators

CHICAGO — Amazon, Aldi, Costco Wholesale Corp. Grocers will rise or fall based on their ability to align themselves to the dominant demographic, cultural, economic and technological trends that will slowly reshape the market context over decades to come. . Health and wellness and finances are opposing forces for many consumers.

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Amazon, Walmart among grocers best-positioned for 2053

Mass Relators

CHICAGO – Amazon, Aldi, Costco Wholesale Club, and Walmart are among U.S. Grocers will rise or fall based on their ability to align themselves to the dominant demographic, cultural, economic, and technological trends that will slowly reshape the market context over decades to come. values-based consumption; and channel proliferation.

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Morrisons posts strongest like-for-like sales growth in three years

Retail Gazette

The grocer claimed its key customer satisfaction metrics were “improving strongly”, and that its complaints had more than halved during the last 20 weeks. ” The update comes depsite the grocer pulling in a £1bn loss last year, as its debt interest payments related to its private equity takeover soared. .”

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The moves that matter: Retail’s biggest hires in June

Retail Gazette

Ex-Ted Baker CEO Rachel Osborne has also joined the board of the online grocer Pets at Home has hired ex-Asda exec Steve Shirley as operations director for retail, completing the division’s senior leadership team. He will be replaced by existing Boots finance executive Sam Hunter.

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FMI board maintains leadership positions

Mass Relators

Vice Chairman, Wholesaler: Brandon Barnholt, KeHE Distributors, Naperville, IL. Vice Chairman, Finance: Brian George, Alex Lee, Inc., Chieh Huang, Boxed Wholesale, New York, NY. Anthony Hucker, Southeastern Grocers, Inc., President and CEO, Leslie Sarasin, FMI, Arlington, VA. Hickory, NC. Schenectady, NY. Gadsden, AL.

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FMI honors seven food industry executives

Mass Relators

Obray was fiercely committed to the strength of the independent grocer, customer care and collaboration among his industry peers. At the time of his passing, Obray was a vocal participant in FMI’s Wholesaler Share Group and an active member of FMI’s Board of Directors. In 2001, industry relations was added to Rick’s responsibilities.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 276 – Recap of GroceryShop 2021

Retail Geek

That’s a pretty big shot you know most most Grocers are doing these like 224 our windows, um and they’re complaining about sales being wildly unprofitable and so for Kroger to you know who like hasn’t had an awesome service level before to say hey we’re going to deliver in 30 minutes is, it’s an interesting promise I.

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