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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Food Cred, Just Next Door

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“Food cred,” in my view, is what food retailers need to have in order to compete effectively in a market that, weirdly enough, is both fragmenting and consolidating.  It is the thing that can provide a differential advantage against the competition.  And I found a great example of it at Wegmans’ now two-year-old Astor Place store in New York City.

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