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Byline: Dean Best Aldi accounts for more than 10% of UK grocery spending for the first time, data released today (25 April) by Kantar shows. The German discount giant held [...]

Grocery sales fell for the first time in three years, Kantar market share figures show, as last year's record temperatures hit year-on-year comparisons. Sales fell 0.5% in the 12 weeks [...]

Sainsbury's reclaimed its position as the UK's second-largest grocer this week after losing it to Asda last month, according to Kantar's latest market share data. However, it remained the only [...]

It's been carnage for the big four as discounters stepped up their assault. So which products and categories have been hit hardest? Who are the heroes? And how? The price [...]

1 £89,650m The Walton Family Walmart/Asda The Walton Family The name Sam Walton may not mean much to Asda's regular shoppers but the late founder of the giant Walmart chain [...]

The weather does lots of different things, as the Post Office ad says. But the one thing no one could have predicted was that last year's hot summer would prompt [...]

Evolve or perish. It is a basic business tenet. No longer can a retailer be defined as a food store, mass merchant or drugstore. As the lines of retail continue [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Supermarket bosses won't be shocked to hear that sales of organic goods have plunged over the past year--but some may be surprised that they are getting the blame. [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imagine you are a tomato grower. Imagine you have spent months planting and nurturing a crop of premium-quality fruit to fulfil an order placed by a supermarket. Now [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The growing share of the OTC market held by the supermarkets is continuing to give the likes of Boots, Lloyds Pharmacy and smaller independents a headache. According to [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Britons seem to find something comforting about having kitchen cupboards bulging with long-life canned goods, as if the presence of them can help fend off hardship. Fear generated [...]

THE NEW WHOLE FOODS MARKET IN PORTLAND, MAINE, IS A 48,000-SQUARE-FOOT behemoth, just two blocks off the turnpike spur that connects Maine's largest city with a string of affluent towns [...]

RUDY GIULIANI HAS JUST WRAPPED UP HIS MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH AT THE BI-LO CENTER IN GREENVILLE, S.C. After the ovations die down, the doors open, spilling the sold-out crowd of some [...]

In this concluding piece on the two part series on how FMCG companies should go about cracking the challenge of 'selling' in a complex retail market like India, Rajendra K. [...]

Competition between H-E-B and Walmart is fierce in the San Antonio market, where H-E-B controls 48% of grocery sales and Walmart has just 28%. However, Walmart's share of the market [...]

Supermarkets are beginning to be foodservice distributors' strongest competitor in the home-meal replacement market. The Packer study in 1996, which examined the purchase sources of prepared foods that consumers bring home, revealed that 38% of American consumers bought prepared meals from supermarkets or convenience stores. It also reported that fresh produce makes up three-quarters of these purchases as most consumers have a general liking for salads., While traditional grocery could increase $11 billion over the next 10 years, a greater opportunity could be provided by prepared foods. Easily another $19 billion in growth is possible. The [...]

WILD OATS AND WHOLE FOODS ARE IN A VIGOROUS RIVALRY IN CHICAGO, STRENGTHENING THE NATURAL-MEALS CONCEPT AND EXPANDING CONSUMER OPTIONS CHICAGO -- The natural-food competition in the Chicagoland marketplace is [...]

Supermarket chains and foodservice firms are expanding their home-meal-replacement programs to boost their competitiveness for a bigger share of the $650 bil food market. Foodservice operators are growing their business in supermarkets and convenience stores. Supermarkets are opening dining areas on premises to offer prepared take-home meals and are forming alliances with restaurant operators to offer in-store foodservice., New york -- It won't be too long before hundreds of Eatzi's look-a-likes begin dotting the landscape across the country, competing for their own small share of the $650 billion [...]

Specialized produce retailers, ranging from small independent operators to multistore chains, are providing stiff competition to supermarket produce departments. Such retailers can often be more successful than supermarkets at offering higher quality produce or produce geared to ethnic customers. Chicago's Sun Harvest Markets is trying to take advantage of the city's ethnic diversity. The produce selections at each of Sun Harvest's four stores are geared to different ethnic markets., The roadside produce stand is back -- but these days, it is looking less like it rolled off of a farmer's pickup truck, and more like a savvy category kil- [...]

Mass merchandisers continue to take small nibbles of numerous grocery categories--and the overall impact is getting bigger every day. IN 1996, THE SUPERMARKET CHANNEL'S SHARE OF the pasta business was [...]

Supermarket sales declined by 13.7% from 1991-1995 due to intense competition waged by the industry against Wal-Mart. The increase in supermarket space by 1 M sq. ft. and an additional 18,000 restaurants unsurprisingly led to inflation. Faced with this market saturation, businesses should consider three things: effective communication of product benefits to consumers, analysis of potential alliances and the willingness to experiment., You're surrounded. How many branded foodservice rivals can you fight all at once? As competition intensifies, it makes sense to consider strategic alliances. What happens when the population increases by [...]

The competition among health and beauty care (HBC) retailers intensifies as supermarkets report a 3.2% increase in HBC sales for 1996. However, mass merchandisers and specialty stores posted larger sales increases from HBC products. Mass merchandisers and specialty stores both showed increases of almost 10% in 1996. In view of the performance being shown by HBC items, drug stores are already reevaluating their HBC marketing efforts., With virtually every retail format shooting for a bigger piece of the HBC action, the issue facing supermarket operators is how hard they are willing to compete for market share. [...]

The Food Marketing Institute's MealSolutions conference and show offered a good opportunity to supermarket officials to share their views on strategies to increase supermarkets' presence in the home meal replacement (HMR) market. Supermarkets need to improve their product sourcing and distribution and learn how to operate takeout food departments and food courts more efficiently to be able to better compete with fast food restaurants and supercenters in the home meal replacement market. Various supermarkets' home meal replacement programs are discussed., The big question from 1996 is no longer 'Do we do HMR?' but 'How best to do it?' Simply said, the supermarket deli will probably never be the same again [...]

Supermarkets are at war with mass merchandisers, and on many fronts casualties are mounting as the big guys rack up double-digit gains. But unlike 'Desert Storm,' it won't be over [...]

Four supermarket chains in Albuquerque, NM, lead the competition in health and beauty care (HBC) sales. The stores allocate 7% to 8% of floor space to HBC products. Furr's Supermarkets is first in local sales with 14 stores and seven pharmacies with the three other chains following. Walgreen Co., Wal-Mart Stores and Kmart Corp. are the only other significant competitors in the market., Supermarkets dominate the health and beauty care landscape in this scenic Southwestern market. Particularly in new stores with pharmacies, the four major chains here devote substantial real estate to the [...]

In a zero-growth arena, the industry's leaders continue to drive for share with money and muscle - and even with price cuts to protect their piece of the pie. If [...]

King Soopers Inc and Safeway Inc are both losing market share to Cub Foods and Albertson's Inc during a grocery strike in Denver, CO. Picket lines are being honored by an approximate 80% of Denver's shoppers during the United Food and Commercial Workers Union strike, which began in May 1996. Job security, health care and pension cuts are among the strike's issues. Mass marketers, such as Wal-Mart, could also increase their grocery store market share., Denver -- A stubbornly fought battle in the mile-high city could have long-term implications. With a labor strike in progress, the losers in the fight clearly were Denver's two leading [...]

Supermarket retailers experienced market share gains against mass merchandisers in eight out of ten health and beauty care categories during 1995. The ten categories include internal analgesics, sanitary napkins and tampons, toothpastes, cough and cold remedies, deodorants, shampoos, vitamins, razors, cosmetics, and antacids. The biggest gain, 9.4%, was seen in vitamins and the biggest loss, 3.9%, was seen in sanitary napkins and tampons., HOW the Pie Slices Up Mass merchandisers enjoyed the most growth in the top HBC categories within grocery, generating $4.8 billion in sales, or 40% of their overall $11.9 billion [...]

Supercenters are not supermen. Just ask Gerald Harp. '[Our] stores are doing real good; we're pretty happy,' says Harp, vice president, operations for Harp's Food Stores, which has three stores [...]

A Supermarket News consumer survey concluded that while consumers believe that supermarkets offer quality private-label health and beauty care products, as well as ease of shopping and merchandise mix, prices are higher than at discount stores. In a survey of 1,000 shoppers nationwide, the study found that price was the main attraction for consumers, followed by selection and variety, store location and convenience., American consumers buying health and beauty care products give supermarkets high marks for selection, ease of shopping and quality of private-label products, but they feel they pay more than they [...]

How tough is the supermarket business in Los Angeles? 'It has become a pissing match; where it will end nobody knows.' That's how one veteran observer describes the market. Certainly, [...]

What happens when two supercenters compete for the same market? It's similar to what happens when a supercenter competes with an established chain--only more so. If you have a real [...]

ShopRite operator Big V Supermarkets is fighting an influx of new competitors in the Hudson Valley, NY, region by expanding existing units and building superstores. The competition's focus on perishables and sophisticated in-store deli, bakery, and other departments has pushed Big V to follow suit. Chain-wide square footage is scheduled to increase by a quarter in 1994 and Big V executives hope the expansions and improvements will not cause them to lose their low-price edge., FLORIDA, N.Y. -- Fifty-two-year-old Big V Supermarkets here, the largest volume ShopRite operator, had become quite comfortable dealing with the price-oriented competition in its Hudson Valley, N.Y., trading area. But [...]

Is a Wal-Mart Supercenter a discount store? Is a Super K mart Center a supermarket? Is it possible to target a 'typical' food shopper anymore given the number and variety [...]

CONVENTIONAL SUPERMARKETS War zone. It is the only way to describe the supermarket section of a Target store late on a Sunday afternoon. Vast stretches of shelves are laid bare [...]

Sales of consumables took a bigger portion of the food market in 2015, according to Supermarket News' 2016 Top 75 Retailers and Wholesalers (January 2016). Four of the top 10 [...]

The headline on Sept. 13 in The State, Columbia, S.C.'s daily newspaper, blared, 'Skeptics say retail boom too much.' [CHART OMITTED] While the article discusses the overall Columbia retail market, [...]

Supermarkets have been finding an unlikely ally in their struggle with alternative formats - suppliers. A number of suppliers, recognizing supermarkets' lots of sales to clubs, mass merchants and other [...]

Recent growth in sales of nontraditional retail outlets - membership warehouse dubs, mass merchandisers, and deep-discount drugstores - has caused traditional grocery food stores to modify marketing strategies and appeal [...]

A year ago Asda was flying: jockeying for position with Morrisons at the front of the pack. As late as 6 September it was boasting a market share of 17.4%. [...]

Byline: Jim Dudlicek Cross-merchandising the frozen aisle with other departments can help deliver better shopper solutions. With the range of flavors and mealtime options available in the frozen aisle, countless [...]

Supermarket executives are concerned about the inroads warehouse clubs, mass merchandisers and drug stores are making in their effort to develop their own private-label programs. The executives are worried that private labels will enable deep discounters to mark-up quality products by only 8%, noting that it is impossible for them to operate at such a low profit margin. Some industry insiders believe that supermarkets should define their goals and adopt creative marketing strategies to achieve them., Mass merchandisers, drug stores and warehouse clubs are set to encroach on what many supermarkets agree is one of their best tools in the battle for shoppers' pocketbooks: private label. [...]

Has Food Lion stepped into a thorn bush against Albertson's and Winn-Doxie? Or is this just a ploy for moving up through the soft underbelly of the Middle South and [...]

If warehouse clubs are so tough, why did Stop & Shop and Edwards open next door? In our continuing saga of the warehouse clubs and their potential impact on supermarket [...]

Entertainment software is the hottest non-food category The magic of video is making traffic, profits and excitement appear in supermarkets across the country. Grocery stores, rapidly gaining market share in [...]