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- 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
- Revenge of the Supermarkets
- Conventional wisdom seems to increasingly suggest that the supermarket model (with the exception of the super-supermarket, Wal-Mart) is on its way out. Today's consumers want niche stores and brands that seem like a good deal, now that everyone is seeking ways to save their pennies. The...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
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- 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
- 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
- Trader Joe's Signs at San Jose MarketCenter; Popular grocer signs for 12,200 square feet; Cousins gets assistance from City of San Jose
- ATLANTA -- Cousins Properties Incorporated (NYSE:CUZ) announced today that an affiliate, Cousins San Jose MarketCenter, LLC, has signed grocer Trader Joe's Company Inc. to a 12,200-square-foot lease at San Jose MarketCenter, a 362,000-square-foot retail center in downtown San Jose, California. Cousins will develop a stand-alone building at the center which...
- Research articles 2006-09-07
- Fresh & Easy Just a Pale Imitation of Trader Joe's
- Joel West submits: Earlier today, we visited our first Fresh & Easy store. The specialty grocery chain is the first US market entry by the British retail giant Tesco TESO, which has committed $2 billion over five years to the effort. When we planned on going, my mother-in-law...
- External links 2008-12-30
- Whole Foods CEO Blames the Media
- Whole Foods CEO Blames the MediaWhole FoodsAfter reading the story concerning Whole Foods-I would like to express that you cannot compare generic chain stores with specialty grocers such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe's or other organic retail distributors. I always find it amazing that people take better care of their...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- 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
- Colorado Springs Retail Briefs: April 28, 2006
- Competition is brutal for smaller retail grocers. Yet as grocery sales approach more than $800 billion a year, many of these companies are growing at an explosive rate.Wal-Mart, the nation's largest food retailer, accounts for about 14 percent of all grocery sales. But smaller, more agile, risk-taking companies, such as...
- Research articles 2006-04-28
- The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Retail Notebook Column.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 25 -- OAKWAY CENTER WORKING TO LURE ANOTHER RETAILER: With Trader Joe's days away from opening, the McKay family is laying the groundwork for the next phase of their mall's redevelopment, just west of the new food store. ...
- Research articles 1999-03-25
- Tesco: The Looming Supermarket Monster
- More than nine months have passed since Tesco announced its plans to invade the U.S. supermarket industry with an all-new convenience store format. And American chains better have some counter-strategies ready, because Tesco's betting big, and it's planning smart. Warren Buffet earlier this year raised his stake in the company...
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- 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 the West Coast,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- San Lorenzo eyes old Albertson's
- SAN LEANDRO -- Although plans to get a Trader Joe's in town are pretty much over, residents and local business owners still would like to see a quality grocery store occupy the former Albertson's building downtown. About 20 community members recently met with a representative from Red...
- Research articles 2005-07-11
- Neither Pushed nor Pulled, Shoppers Now Pick What They Please
- Neither Pushed nor Pulled, Shoppers Now Pick What They PleaseRE: Neither Pushed nor Pulled, Shoppers Now Pick What They PleaseAll the advice about creating a “pick†strategy won't help retailers if they don't offer consumers what they want. And the companies you mentioned, Ikea, H&M, Trader Joe’s, and the Apple...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- 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
- TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation F3Q08 (Qtr End 06/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Richard Repetto - Sandler O'Neill Richard Repetto - Sandler O'Neill On the retail engagement activity the 11% up in July and I know you mentioned the tools and why you think AMERITRADE but the industry...
- Earnings calls 2008-07-17
- Why You Can't Day Trade Gold
- Bron Suchecki submits: The nature of the gold market makes profitable day trading difficult, if not impossible. It is all about information, or lack thereof. Apart from pockets of relative transparency emphasis on relative like COMEX or ETFs, the vast majority of the market is opaque. The “retail” or “average...
- External links 2009-07-02
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