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The effect of the rise in the number of retail food stores, on the competition in the retail food market of Des Moines, Iowa, is described. The enhancement of services by the traditional grocery stores to maintain their market share is discussed.

Enhanced competition for share of the consumer's stomach is making the supermarket deli an increasingly crowded conglomeration of brands. Retailers are marketing a plethora of products to attract shoppers from [...]

The past 10 months have been a pretty wild ride for Julie Van Alyea. Van Alyea, retail merchandise manager for Redwood Oil Co. (Santa Rosa, CA), has noticed a significant [...]

2004 TOP 100 U.S. RETAILERS $1,398,265,232,000 Electronic retailers 3.5% Sears, Penney 2.7% Supermarkets 19.2% Department stores 5.1% Drug stores 7.8% Home centers 8.9% Convenience stores 2.1% Supercenters 11.3% Warehouse wholesale [...]

Take hard-as-nails consumers. Add murderous competition. What do you get? Some sizzling opportunities for radical retailers. No one cheered when Eaton's of Canada Ltd., that 128-year-old granddaddy of retailing, finally [...]

One formidable competitor many independent d-i-y retailers face isn't a 'big-box' warehouse store. It doesn't even carry lumber, electrical conduit or pipe insulation. Nevertheless, nearly 80 percent of hardlines retailers [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Longtime Alaska residents can probably remember the days of having just one or two grocery stores to choose from. Prices were high, winter produce usually came in a […]

Women who shop for sport are a dying breed, which places retailers that aren't responsive to consumer evolution high on the endangered-species list. Mall-based department stores have been among the [...]

Byline: VICKI M. YOUNG AND ARNOLD J. KARR Confidence, Retail Sales Gain Traction Better job prospects and cheaper gasoline could be putting consumers in a better mood for shopping as [...]

Retailing's Battlefield: Fight for Market Share Fashion's become a street fight for market share. To grow and keep ravenous investors happy, retailers need to do everything they can to push [...]

Traditional grocery stores, such as supermarkets, smaller full-line foodstores, and convenience stores, are competing increasingly with other nontraditional retail outlets that offer many food and nonfood products typically found in [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Asda has grown its market share to an all-time high as the impact of last year's acquisition of Netto's UK stores boosted sales. According to the latest [...]

Much-improved monthly retail sales results reported last week pointed in part to a warming economic recovery, observers said. Shoppers replenishing following winter storms in the East, as well as an [...]

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By Dana French Includes umbrellas, pergolas, gazebos and other shade products Shade products, including umbrellas for dining groups, market umbrellas, pergolas, gazebos and other shade structures, comprise 2% of the [...]

By Dana French As with all retail, the outdoor market experienced sales declines in 2008 and is projected to decrease this year, too. Retail sales for outdoor furniture and grills [...]

Consumers Making the Shift to Thrift Thrift shop nation? not quite, but second-hand shops are thriving in an era when frugality and savings have renewed traction for Americans. As retail [...]

Retail Stocks Maintain Climb For Second Day Retail stocks managed only their fourth two-day winning streak of the year, and their first in over a month, as the S&P Retail [...]

Dollar stores are engaged in a tug of war with traditional grocers for shoppers' wallet share. With expanded consumable selections and enhanced customer service, members of the small-format value channel [...]

Who are you calling disorganised? India needs a supermarket revolution IN THANE, a suburb of Mumbai, shoppers can enjoy the wide aisles and well stocked shelves of the HyperCity hypermarket, [...]

Potato chip sales were flat last year, but at $6,441 sold per store, it comprised the largest category in the salty snack department with almost 25 percent of sales, about [...]

E-commerce is moving full steam ahead and is years away from saturation, with double-digit growth expected for several years, according to a newly-released online retail industry report by FORRESTER RESEARCH [...]

NEW YORK - Retail disruptions persisted on Madison Avenue Tuesday because of the explosion that leveled an Upper East Side town house. Shops closest to the southeast corner of East [...]

For the fifth consecutive month, retail sales at warehouse clubs and supercenters in the U.S. posted double-digit growth, climbing 12.9% from the same month last year to $23.7 billion. Through [...]

With total aftermarket sales of $178 million, the running board accessories category has seen slow but steady growth since 2000. Last year's sales showcased an increase of more than $30 [...]

Internet retailers are starting to make serious dents in the fortunes of their high street counterparts, but canny players in each camp are learning to enjoy the best of both [...]

New buyers were the biggest driver behind a 22 percent increase in online holiday retail sales last year, a research firm said Monday. In its "Holiday 2004 Postmortem" report, JupiterResearch, […]

It was a focus group of women 21 to 30 - all residents of Oklahoma City - and the subject was shopping. 'I never go to a regular grocery store,' [...]

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- In the land of giants, Kennie's Markets, a family-owned chain of four stores, is holding its own with a highly promoted, branded deli meat program that has [...]

Americans 13 and over spent about $5.6 billion on men's jeans in 2003, 15 percent more than in the prior year, according to STS Market Research. Wal-Mart's market-share increase in [...]

Stations in the Greenville and Spartanburg, S.C./Asheville, N.C. market are turning to nontraditional advertisers to help make up for a soft national sales climate. ``We sponsored a lifestyles exposition at [...]

An expensive expansion of Exton Square Mall raises hopes of cutting into King of Prussia's market share. EXTON -- A new round is about to begin in the suburban mall [...]

LOCALLY OWNED independent businesses have lost 11% of market share nationally, according to a new study by American Express in conjunction with Civic Economics. Among retail shopping establishments at the [...]

TAMPA, FL -- University Bicycle Center sold more than 300 pairs of Specialized-branded cycling shoes last year. Shoes were one of its biggest categories with Specialized, according to Carlos Mirabal, [...]

US Retailers Running the Most Circular Ads for: Cough/Cold US Retailer Name Effective Feature Count Count Kinney Drugs 431.6 709 Walgreens 250.9 1373 Rite Aid 246.0 1014 CVS 229.4 1088 [...]

Cole's Holding Inc. is embarking on an expansion worth $4 million in Millington, West Tennessee to compete with the leading retailers in the home improvement retail industry. The expansion will happen to Cole's Home Solutions, the retail-handling unit of Cole's Holding Inc. It consists of a 45,000 square feet showroom and a 26,000 square feet lumberyard.

Buffeted by the latest government retail sales figures that indicate the recession is far from over, Pali Capital analyst Stacey Widlitz downgraded shares of Best Buy Co. to 'sell' from [...]

With retailers looking to cash in on hot growth beverage categories, 2008 is forecasted to be a year where high demand beverages are expected to perform well across perhaps more [...]