IDDBA: Omnichannel Initiatives Growing In Importance Among Food Retailers

More food retailers are venturing into the world of omnichannel marketing as they integrate ecommerce, mobile, social, catalog, and physical stores to create enhanced shopping channels for their customers. This trend is one of many examined in What’s in Store 2016, the annual trends research report published by the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA).

Customer Panel To Address Powering Growth At ABA Convention

Food Marketing Institute (FMI) President and keen observer of the retail grocery marketplace Leslie Sarasin will guide an engaging dialogue with a distinguished panel of baking industry customers during the March 21 Morning Business Session at the American Bakers Association (ABA) Convention. 

Walmart Canada Introduces Five Cent Charge For Plastic Bags

Walmart Canada will begin to charge customers for plastic bags as part of its strategy for cutting the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills.

How The Evolution Of Modern Grocery Benefits Discounters

January 28, 2016 Research and Markets

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "How the Evolution of Modern Grocery Benefits Discounters" report to their offering. Discounters continue to disrupt the grocery market with their low cost but high value offerings after years of middle-market grocer complacency. Competitors are starting to catch on, though. In this competitive landscape, grocery retailers must learn the difference between cutting costs and cutting products indiscriminately, while remaking their stores for the new value-oriented consumer.

Price Rite To Open Grocery Store In Syracuse ‘Food Desert’

January 28, 2016 Rick Moriarty, Syracuse.com

Price Rite is going ahead with plans to open a supermarket in an impoverished southwest side neighborhood that community leaders have called a “food desert” because of its lack of grocery stores.