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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 [...]

Toys R Us Killed The Local Independent Toy Stores. Could The Same Thing Happen In Our Industry? Wherever we open a store, we expect to command upwards of 50% of [...]

Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart have emerged as the new Big 3 players in retailing, with 1992 combined sales of $73.3 billion, equal to 6.3% of total retail sales excluding the gasoline, automotive and food establishment sectors. In 1992 they accounted for two out of every three dollars spent at full-line discount stores. For two decades, they seldom confronted one another directly, but they have now moved into one another's major markets. The only threat to any of them seems to come from within the Big 3 club, and it seems that Wal-Mart is better placed to win this battle for dominance., The Big 3. Ten years ago, the Big 3 could have meant the Big 3 Super Powers--the United States, the Soviet Union and China. Today, the United States is unchallenged [...]

Textile manufacturers recognize that mass merchandisers achieved a 60% of the domestic textiles market in 1992, compared with 40% in 1987. The volume increase results not only from competitive pricing but also from emphasis on accessories, packaging and quality plus attractive display. Strengths and weaknesses of the merchandising methods of the top mass merchants are analyzed. Wal-Mart Stores Inc, for instance, receives good marks for promotions and prices, but criticism for presentation., VOLUME MOVERS DRAW PRAISE AND CRITICISM FROM MILL EXECUTIVES Mass merchants are doing a mass-terful job selling home textiles. Top executives of the major mills say that a channel of [...]

Nielson Market Research collected sales and market share data from drugstores, mass-merchandise outlets and food stores on over-the-counter drugs, toiletries and personal care products, paper goods and selected sundries. Nielsen researchers studied every product invoice that came into each of the sample's 535 drugstores, 1,050 food stores and 135 mass merchandise outlets. Sales figures and market share information about each of the four major product categories are presented for each type of retail establishment., On this and the next few pages is a rundown of sales and market share in the four major categories of the Nielsen OTC/HBA survey: over-the-counter drugs; toiletries and personal [...]

[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 [...]

Specialized retailers such as pet food supermarkets, membership warehouses, chain drug stores and discounters are making giant strides into the pet food market once dominated by supermarkets. To maintain market share and beat back the competition, supermarket operators are adopting such strategies as increasing the mix of pet supplies, adding more high-end, higher-profit products, and offering more value packs at competitive prices., Pet food is becoming a classic case of a supermarket category under attack by specialized retailers. And as a result, sales and margins are in danger of going to the [...]

The announcement that Wal-Mart Stores Inc would be opening a branch in Viroqua, WS, galvanized Fred Nelson of Nelson Agri-center. To improve competitiveness, he and his managers evaluated Wal-Mart's products and services and eliminated product lines that are not competitive. Image, pricing and customer services at Nelson Agri-center were improved along with an increase in store hour operations. The changes enabled the store to reach a sales volume of $8.5 million and increase its personnel to 52 from 35.

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 [...]

Drugstores compete with food stores and mass-merchandising outlets for sales of the over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and health and beauty aids (HBA). According to Nielsen Marketing Research, drugstores' share of the OTC/HBA market was 37.4% at the end of 1991, down .9% from 1990. During the same period, the OTC/HBA market share of food stores and mass merchandise outlets increased 1.1% and 12.2%, respectively. The self-medication trend and more conversions of prescription drugs to OTC status helped OTC drug sales in all retail establishments., A very important measure of success for drugstore owners and managers is how well they do in the OTC/HBA area. Last year, they had a particularly bruising time as they [...]

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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 [...]

When Tom Bollum opened Canada's first optical 'superstore' five years ago in West Edmonton Mall, he shook up a sleepy, content little industry. Now different segments of the industry are [...]

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 [...]