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Byline: N Jayalakshmi As brands across categories vie with one another to create deeper shopper recall and reinstate their positioning, technology seems to be the real game changer. Here's a [...]

A case study on Tesco PLC is presented. The impact of a company's merger with international retailer, on its marketing prospects, is examined.

Development of food store retailing relies on the creation of a public policy that will ensure effective operation. A case study of New Jersey's food stores reveals that despite of its vast consumer market, food store business declined for the past years due to several operational barriers like business cost, liability suits, and excessive regulations. Policy reform is needed to provide a favorable business environment for food stores and to increase competitiveness of firms.

Byline: Joseph Tarnowski SPREADING THE WORD Members of Raley's 'Something Extra Try-It' Spring Baking Program receive a kit with cake mix, paper cupcake cups, recipes, coupons and a whisk. After [...]

Byline: just-food Research Team 1.Tesco The largest UK retailer was a pioneer of online grocery retailing when it began a store-pick home delivery service from a single store in West [...]

Asda offers its staff a 10% discount card after three months service. The card can be used in any Asda store in the UK and in any global Walmart, Asda's [...]

Asda began offering its sharesave plan in 1982 and has used different marketing tools to build take-up each year. Last year, the supermarket giant, supported by Computershare Plan Managers, introduced [...]

When Asda relaunched its sharesave plan in February 2010, staff who had previously benefited from it were used to boost take-up. Laura Wilcock, shares manager at Asda, said: 'We asked [...]

To increase the product range on offer to customers online, beyond what can be stored in a shop, Waitrose Wine Direct uses a third-party drop shipper with an Oxfordshire warehouse. [...]

Tesco is saving 50,000 road miles and cutting 61 tonnes in carbon dioxide emissions annually since installing a Transdek double-deck lift at its Belfast DC to receive its new double-deck [...]

The supermarket convened at Lord's for its Active Kids national conference. The brief: Sainsbury's Active Kids Get Talking national conference was the culmination of a year long process, which involved [...]

Tesco recognises the varying needs of its 280,000-strong workforce by targeting workers approaching retirement and graduates fresh out of university with tailored information. It holds approximately 25 pre-retirement seminars a [...]

In early 2008, a few months after unveiling their new concept stores, Tinderbox, a part of The Hartman Group, Inc., devoted two weeks to careful study and analysis of Tesco's [...]

Asda believes that for benefits to motivate staff, they must make employees feel valued and part of the company. To enable staff to join in the overall success of Asda, [...]

Having employed RedEye's Web analytics software for many years, Asda turned to the company in order to visualise online visitor activity With the significant rise in the number of households […]

After years of strong growth, the rate of supermarket pharmacy expansion has slowed, according to the findings of 2005 Supermarket Pharmacy Trends, a report of the study conducted by the [...]

Championed by its CEO and validated by recent successes in everything from sales to slogans, the communications team at Staples is continuing to see its value rise. John N. Frank [...]

The Best Little Grocery Store in America Green Hills Farms developed a powerful customer-loyalty program to help it compete against giant rivals. Now large companies everywhere clamor for the store's [...]

Sainsbury, a supermarket chain that implemented an incentivised contract for its retail colleagues called Rewarding Great Service (RGS) is reviewed. According to the analysis made, the RGS scheme was introduced so that the company, Sainsbury, could get good staff coverage during peak hours when customers flocked the mart.

The new V. Richards with its mezzanine Loft Cafe is Milwaukee's first real leap upscale. The store is owned and operated by Rick Little, son of Roundy's president and CEO, [...]

The year was 1952. Marilyn Monroe was the talk of Hollywood, Eisenhower had been elected president, and the Hughes Market on the corner of Van Nuys and Burbank Boulevard in [...]

The operator of a large chilled distribution terminal for flowers, fruit and vegetables doubled its capacity by adding new rooms and facilities. The existing rooms were cooled using a direct [...]

Like many cities, San Antonio once had a good number of strong independent supermarkets. Then the chains, and the big stores, came along. In San Antonio's case, one chain, with [...]