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OFT Probes Alleged Price Fixing: By Mark Potter LONDON (Reuters UK) - Consumer goods companies and more supermarkets confirmed on Monday they had been contacted by the consumer affairs watchdog, following reports of an investigation into alleged price fixing. News of the Office of Fair Trading OFT probe comes days ...; Tags: Supermarket, OFT, Competition Commission, Food & Beverage, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Manufacturing, Sales; News items 2008-04-28
RMCS Diagnostic Services Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA): A commissary is the military equivalent of a commercial supermarket. DeCA operates 300 commissaries around the world. Refrigeration Monitoring & Control Systems RMCS are used by commissaries and commercial supermarkets to monitor and control refrigeration, HVAC, and lighting systems. The work for EMC was to monitor performance of refrigeration, HVAC,...; Tags: Modems, Construction, EMC Corp., HVAC, supermarket, modem, monitor, monitoring, performance; Case studies
Beware the Buyer - Why Not to Shop in Supermarkets: Supermarkets are keen to portray themselves as loyal and supportive business partners, nurturing suppliers in their quest for the best deal for consumers. Tesco says it is 'committed to maintaining strong mutually advantageous relationships with our suppliers'. Asda asserts its 'belief in good relationships, which we work to improve all...; Tags: supermarket, supplier; White papers
Supermarkets and Quality and Safety Standards for Produce in Latin America: Food safety standards that developed countries impose on developing-country exports have sometimes created a barrier to market access. But in Latin America today, the standards set by supermarkets in the region affect local producers far more than do those imposed by developed countries. Latin American farmers sell 2.5 times more...; Tags: Quality, supermarket, Latin America, standards, procurement, barrier, food; Case studies
Dairy Rules in the Supermarket, But its Got a Lot to Learn From Competitors: Dairy has major muscle in the supermarket. Despite that entire dairy must continue to do to innovate, a look at the top sellers in U.S. grocery stores shows that dairy is a huge presence on America's tables and in supermarket sales. According to a recent IRI ranking of 100 UPC...; Tags: Dairy Management Inc., dairy, supermarket, America, leader, sales; White papers

Supervalu Joins EPA Push for Greener Coolers: Supervalu Inc.'s announcement that its 12 retail brands will participate in the Environmental Protection Agency's GreenChill Partnership gives a lift to the EPA's efforts to convert supermarkets to green refrigeration. Twenty-seven companies now participate in the program, including Publix, Giant Eagle, Food Lion and Whole Foods Market. ...; Tags: Lisa Everitt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, cooler, DuPont Co., supermarket; Blog posts 2008-03-27
What Do Shoppers Want? Study Reveals It's Not What You Think: What do shoppers look for when they go to the supermarket? An article in Ad Week this week highlights new research by Nielsen Customized Research that will help answer this eternal question of marketing professionals. The short answer seems to be, different things for different types of...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, Ad Week, supermarket, advertisement; Blog posts 2007-09-07
Supermarket Pricing Strategies: Most supermarket firms choose to position themselves by offering either "Every Day Low Prices" EDLP across several items or offering temporary price reductions promotions on a limited range of items. While this choice has been addressed from a theoretical perspective in both the marketing and economic literature, relatively little is...; Tags: Marketing research, Duke University, supermarket, pricing strategy, marketing, environment; White papers 2006-05-17
Growing Pains Small Brands: Entrepreneurs who develop brands from scratch like to emphasize the role that product innovation has played in their success. Starting to advertise is just one of the many rites of passage that brands must navigate on the road to maturity, however. Equally fraught is the decision over if, or when,...; Tags: Branding, supermarket, brand, benefit; White papers 2005-06-20
Supermarkets: Same Old Product, Fresh New Competition: The supermarket industry is undergoing a dramatic change as new competitors are taking business by offering convenience or drastically lower prices. Competition for grocery stores now includes a variety of non-traditional retailers who are looking to increase shopping frequency by adding perishable/consumable items. Given consumers' penchant for lower prices, it...; Tags: Retail, supermarket, retail company; White papers 2004-10-12
Spotmedia Introduces New Approach to Retail Advertising and Communications With the Initiation of Digital Signage for Azizia-Panda Supermarkets in Saudi Arabia: Azizia-Panda, an established retail chain supermarket in Saudi Arabia, adopts the power of dynamic digital signage to deliver a possible first of its kind In-Store Channel delivering in-store advertising and information to its customers in Saudi. The full solution was successfully implemented by Spotmedia, the first company to initiate a...; Tags: Saudi Arabia, supermarket, Software Solution, retail advertising, alliance, multimedia, advertisement, software, video; Case studies 2004-07-08
The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Developing Regions: The paper discusses the rapid rise of supermarkets in the developing economies of Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America in the past several decades, and the impacts of this trend on agrifood markets facing farmers. The supermarket sector has risen to have an important and often dominant share of...; Tags: Food & Beverage, supermarket, food; White papers 2004-05-02
The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for the Agrifood Sector and Rural Development: This paper highlights how the rise of supermarkets had a profound effect on agrifood systems via several important changes in the organization and institutions of the food system, including centralization of procurement from farmers, decline of traditional wholesale systems, and the rise of demanding private standards for product quality and...; Tags: Food & Beverage, Eastern Europe, supermarket, food, centralization, procurement; White papers 2004-04-15
A&P/Waldbaum's Supermarket: Capstone 60 With Desiccant Unit: This presentation describes usage of CHP in Supermarkets. Its peak is 400-600 kW for a typical store. Desiccant dehumidification is widely used in supermarkets. The CHP System consists of Capstone 60 KW Microturbine, Nat. gas compressor scroll, Unifin heat exchanger and hot water coils installed in Munters unit. Munters HVAC...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, U.S. Department of Energy, Combined Heat and Power, supermarket; White papers 2004-01-21
Wal-Mart Update: Supersizing the Supermarket: The soft economy has encouraged a significant shift of CPG shopping from the traditional supermarket over to deep-discount supercenters, primarily Wal-Mart. Their rapid expansion and replacement of many traditional mass merchandiser formats as a major shopper destination is having a significant impact on the changing CPG consumption landscape. This brief...; Tags: supermarket, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; White papers 2003-10-01
Strategic Stockouts in Supermarkets: This paper studies empirically how stock outs in supermarkets can a?ect the market shares and profits of food manufacturers. The data set comes from the central warehouse of a supermarket chain, and it provides information on orders that were not attended because the warehouse was out of stock. A descriptive...; Tags: Investment, Boston University, supermarket, warehouse, stock, data analysis, food, brand; White papers 2003-09-01
Supermarket Prices Need to Come Down: Food Marketing Policy Issue Papers address particular policy or marketing issues in a non-technical manner. They summarize research results and provide insights for users outside the research community. Antitrust enforcement has not adequately protected farmers and consumers in New England. When faced with similar nasty pricing, New York State passed...; Tags: Corporate law, Food & Beverage, Marketing research, milk, supermarket, antitrust, food, survey, pricing strategy, brand, processor, marketing; White papers 2002-11-01
Quality Of Employees: Effective Hiring: Beginning in early 1999, Unicru partnered with a large firm to examine the long-term ramifications of using its Hiring Management System HMS versus the paper-based, subjective hiring process supermarkets had used for generations. Good employees in supermarkets are hired for their helpfulness with customers as well as their grocery knowledge...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, supermarket, hiring, knowledge; Case studies 2002-10-14
Guide to Consumer Dairy Data: This paper summarizes and provides information on cheese and fluid milk from their retail sales perspective as well as from the customer point. Total fluid milk sales at the retail level have remained relatively unchanged versus the year ago period, with the notable exception of specific chocolate milk products. The...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Dairy Management Inc., cheese, supermarket, sales; White papers 2002-07-26
Balancing Profitability and Customer Value: An Application to Zone-Pricing by a Supermarket Chain: This paper investigates the impact of price discrimination by a large Chicago supermarket chain. Using a structural econometric approach, the paper are measures the impact on prices, profits, and consumer welfare from shifting from a uniform chain-level pricing policy to a regionally segmented zone-pricing policy. Using a rich database, the...; Tags: pricing strategy, database; White papers 2002-02-01