Resources
- BNET Author Biography
Mike Duff has written about retail and related fields over 20 years. His work has appeared in publications as diverse as Retailing Today, Drug Store News, Supermarket Business, Consumer Digest, MarketingWeek, American Food and Ag Exporter magazines.- more about Mike Duff »
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Price Can't Always Buy Customer Satisfaction
- Despite the attention paid bargain shopping in the holiday season, consumers still demand more from retailers than a good price. This is true across the spectrum of retail. Trader Joe’s for example, has won customers based on the low prices it offers for fashionable food. Evolving on...
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- 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
- Fan "Commercial" Celebrates Trader Joe's
- The YouTube and BoingBoing web sites are offering a video homage to Trader Joe’s that’s as clever as any Super Bowl commercial and, if you are a regular shopper of the store, even a little poignant. The visual quality might not be great but the framing...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Report Says Aldi Moving Into New York City, Joining Trader Joe's in Queens
- The Trader Joe’s folks won’t discuss it and the Aldi folks will get mad at you if you suggest it, but the two chains, both owned by the ALDI Group in Germany, seem to do a lot of the same things, including opening up in Queens. The...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Payless, Trader Joe's Break Away from Other Retail Brands
- What retail brands are making an impression on consumers today? According to the Breakaway Brands study, the two most prominent are Payless ShoeSource and Trader Joe's. Landor Associates, a strategic brand consulting and design firm, placed Payless in the number six slot on the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
Additional Resources
- Whole Foods Settles Suit, Retailing Sighs with Relief
- Whole Foods' settlement of the Federal Trade Commission anti-trust suit over its acquisition of the Wild Oats chain will be a relief to the entire retail industry, which has been concerned about just what the FTC was up to during then entire case. To settle with the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- The New Normal Won't Emerge as a Walmart World
- The normal is upon us, but will the new normal be a Walmart world? A whole series of posts in this blog have discussed the recent Walmart WMT analyst meeting, and only covered the first 90 minutes of a two-day event and just detailed what the company...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Safeway Attests National Brand Reaction to Private Label
- Safeway didn’t have an easy first quarter, one in which currency exchange rates, gas prices and other external factors weighted in, but its results provide more evidence of how important private label is in retailing today. In fact, Safeway got a lift from private label in two...
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Germany's Aldi Pressures Tesco, Threatens U.S. Growth
- Tesco's sales grew 12 percent in the third quarter, but deeper in the company's results are signs that it may face problems with its Fresh & Easy operation in the United States. Tesco's two percent growth in comparable-store sales core U.K. market was better than the disaster...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Aldi Boosting Reputation with Refurished Private Labels
- Aldi is reconfiguring its private label line up, streamlining the number of the own brands it operates to boost their reputation and the reputation of the store. And it’s doing so just in time to open its 1,000th U.S. Aldi store, which debuted two days ago in...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- 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
- Costco, Safeway Ensure Private Labels Won't Fade With Recession
- Alberstons LLC announced this week that it was rolling out Safeway's O Organics line of natural foods, and the move demonstrates why private labels that have grown with the recession won’t fade when it ends. Retailer efforts to make store brands more attractive and integral to the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- 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
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
