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- Marketside Gets Fancy as Wal-Mart Eyes Gourmet
- One complaint about Wal-Mart’s Marketside stores when they debuted last year in Arizona was that a retail concept that was supposed to emphasize high-quality prepared food had a rather bland line up. Wal-Mart has been addressing that concern. A small, 15,000 square food store format, Marketside, with...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
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- Wal-Mart Makes No Small Plans for New Grocery Chain
- It's somewhat surprising that Wal-Mart's Marketside, its planned chain of small grocery stores, hasn't gotten more coverage. That could be because, until now, nobody knew just how extensive the retail giant's plans are â€" potentially, at least. The Financial Times reported Thursday that the chain, to launch...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Wal-Mart's Neighborhood Market Pushes Price in Recession
- In Phoenix, Neighborhood Market, the Wal-Mart grocery store format, is making a stronger bid to be a community supermarket rather than the convenience grocery store originally envisioned, and price plays a significant role. The upfront convenience product section that conspicuously engaged customers as they entered the store in earlier...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Wal-Mart Gets Ahead of Recession with Chilean Acquisition
- With its tender offer for Chile’s Distribucion y Servicio, a 185-store supermarket chain, Wal-Mart is making an acquisition that will put it into an even stronger position when the global economy stirs again. Internationalization is an ongoing theme at Wal-Mart. Its executive suite will soon feature Mike...
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- Second Supermercado de Walmart Signals More Vigorous Hispanic Effort
- Wal-Mart opened its second Hispanic-oriented Neighborhood Market conversion yesterday in Phoenix and, while the format itself remains a test, what the company is learning from it will be put to work quickly. The new format, Supermercado de Wal-Mart, is only the latest in a series of recent...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Wal-Mart's Small-Store Test Starts this Weekend
- Will small grocery stores built by major chains prove to be a successful alternative to huge supermarkets? Perhaps, over the long run. But will they prove to be successful during possibly severe recession? We may soon find out. Wal-Mart tomorrow will open the first...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Store logo chosen?
- STORE LOGO CHOSEN?: Wal-Mart has unveiled a possible logo for its smaller-format Marketside stores, The Financial Times reported.
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- A New Problem for Retailers: Consumers Hate the Mall
- It’s official: The mall is boring, and that could turn into a big challenge for major retailers. A study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the market-research firm Verde Group registered a critical complaint that is keeping consumers from spending more time at malls....
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Aldi Could Surge in U.S. Recession
- The current economy could provide just the right conditions for Aldi to become a major retail power in the United States. And not just Aldi. Retailers with similar stores could find consumers warming to their barebones style. In Europe, Aldi, its major rival Lidl...
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- Eastern C-Stores Pursue Shoppers Tesco's Fresh & Easy, Wal-Mart's Marketside Target Out West
- Giant spokesperson Tracy Pawelski said Giant To Go provides more than 100 fresh produce items in single-serving sizes and family packs. by Mike Duff
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Sears Strikes Back at TheStreet for MyGofer
- TheStreet.com might have thought dumping MyGofer into its The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week column was witty, but the store’s developer, Sears Holding, doesn’t think its smart to judge an idea without a fair trial. The first MyGofer store, which combines online and showroom...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Q&A: Hartman Research Says Retailers Adding Convenience Food Better Check Consumer Definition
- Retailers across the spectrum are trying to make getting a meal on the table easier for consumers but complicating that attempt is the reality that convenience means different things to different people, according to a study by The Hartman Group. The study determined that 66 percent of...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Giant Supermarkets Seek Advantage of Small Stores
- Giant, the Carlisle, Pa.-division of Ahold USA, is building on the work it has done developing a convenience store operation to expand the range of formats it operates, looking in part at smaller concepts that can help it reach more consumers. To advance its efforts the company...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
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