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  1. Channel: Grocery

Wegmans to Close Stores (Briefly) for Solar Eclipse Viewing

Wegmans doesn’t want its employees (or its customers for that matter) to miss what will be the last total solar eclipse visible from North America for 20 years. The supermarket retailer will close 48 stores in upstate New York and Pennsylvania that are located in the “path of totality” from 3 to 3:30 p.m. ET […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Your Views:  “Kick Them To The Curb”

On Friday, we reported: In Connecticut, the Trumbull Patch reports that “a petition calling for enhanced equipment and improved conditions at a Stop and Shop grocery store in Trumbull has garnered more than 400 signatures as of Thursday night. “The petition, titled ‘Enhance Equipment and Conditions at Stop & Shop Trumbull CT,’ was launched earlier […]
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  1. Data & Insights

4 Key Point-of-Sale Trends for 2024

The point-of-sale (POS) system has always been the one truly indispensable technology for any merchant, large or small. The centrality of the POS has led both retailers and solution providers to integrate it with other fundamental operational systems, from inventory and order management to customer relationship management (CRM) and, of course, payments. As if this […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Boston Market Once Successful Now Stuck in Failure Mode according to the Grocerant Guru®

  Boston Market, formerly known as Boston Chicken, began serving its homestyle meals of spit-roasted rotisserie chickens, made-from-scratch cornbread, and creamy mac and cheese in 1985. As it grew in popularity, it had about 1,200 locations at one time, according to Restaurant Business.  Today there are just over 300 locations in the United States and Puerto […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Wegmans Signs Lease For New NYC Space

The New York Post reports that Wegmans, having recently opened its first Manhattan store in Greenwich Village, has signed a “long term deal” for a space about four miles to the north near Lincoln Center, real estate that used to be occupied by a Bed Bath & Beyond. The Post writes that “some kind of […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Your Views:  Making Up For Lost Time

Reacting to Amazon’s plan to create a pay tier for its Alexa smart speaker system, one MNB reader wrote: Our main household use for Alexa is to control lights, heat, and A/C.  If they start charging for it, we will stop using it.  There are many other platforms available for home control that do not […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Grocerant Guru® Restaurant Discontinuity Continues to Persist

  At the intersection of What’s for Dinner, restaurant customer trial, cooking from scratch at home, and time is a new level of consumer discontent according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. What are some of the new stumbling blocks? 1.       Drive-thru’s are too SLOW. 2.       Don’t know how to […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

In Connecticut, Amazon Fresh Is Out & BIg Y Is In

CT Insider reports that Amazon has decided not to open Amazon Fresh stores in the towns of Westport and Brookfield, despite the fact it had done considerable work on the store facilities over the years. Instead, Big Y will take over the locations, offering those communities more traditional supermarket shopping alternatives. Some context from the […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Wegmans vs. H-E-B (& Does It Matter?)

You can count on social media to host, even promulgate, a pointless conversation. Like recently, when a debate on Reddit blew up over whether Wegmans or H-E-B is a better supermarket.  In the words of my ancestors:  Oy. The post FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Wegmans vs. H-E-B (& Does It Matter?) appeared first on […]
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  1. Department & Category

Grocerant Meals, Snacks, Bundled Beverages are a Consumer Welcome Mat

  Once again, the line between restaurants and food retailers is growing ever thinner. The fight for America’s food dollars continues to intensify as consumers find fresh prepared Ready-2-Eat food options at a wide and growing array of outlets across almost every channel including convenience stores, chain drug stores, restaurants, grocery stores, club stores, vending […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  Radical Empowerment

Yesterday we reported that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) have issued a draft of new merger guidelines that, if adopted after a 60-day public comment period, would establish more than a dozen standards that would be applied to all proposed mergers and acquisitions. One MNB reader reacted: Reading that list […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Two Views Of Self-Checkout

There were two stories over the weekend about self-checkout that are worth referencing. •  First Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Cohen has a piece about the self-checkout system at clothing retailer Uniqlo. Here’s how he framed the piece: Every so often a technological breakthrough comes along that makes you feel like you’ve teleported to the […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Trader Joe’s Grocerant Focused Best Other Grocers

  Looking for a meal for one or two at a price you can afford that is good!  Well it seems that many consumers are doing the same thing and that they are doing that with gusto at Trader Joe’s.  According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® “In the minds-eye […]
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  1. Owned Brands (Private Label)

Private Label brand managers need to come out swinging vs. lame slotting fees.

  Diminished is the role of the legacy national brand manager in a world where private label is branded. When national brand manufactures continue paying slotting fee’s to grocery stores and supermarkets as the easiest way to reach the consumer. The slotting fee’s continue to go for space on the shelf but the key location […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart and Wegmans to bring alcohol delivery to New Jersey, US

Instacart unlocks alcohol delivery in partnership with Wegmans. Credit: Instacart/PRNewswire. Grocery technology company Instacart has launched an alcohol delivery service for the first time in New Jersey, US. The service was launched in partnership with Wegmans Food Markets and all independently owned Wegmans wine, liquor and beer locations. Customers above the age of 21 can […]
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  1. Department & Category

Your Views:  As Time Goes By

Got the following email responding to my piece last week about the Amazon One biometric payment system now being used at Whole Foods: Thank you for endorsing the palm scan method of payment. I wondered what those gizmos were for! You’re right, there doesn’t seem to be any marketing even at store level to support […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Study:  Retail Personalization Winners (& Why)

dunnhumby has released a special edition of the dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index (RPI), this one “designed to determine which retailers in the $1 trillion U.S. grocery market personalize the shopping experience best for their customers.” The winner is:  Amazon. H-E-B and Kroger came in second and third. According to the report, “These three retailers are […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Your Views:   Recipes For Success

Got the following note from MNB reader Terry Marshall about my commentary and follow-up emails about Target’s store issues: Just wanted to say that with all the comments on Target in the “Your Views” section,  I hope someone in senior Target leadership reads it. Reading is one thing.  (I’m think that is likely.). But paying […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Tuesday Eye-Opener:  Something Fishy

by Kevin Coupe TikTok has more than 100 million daily users in the United States, which means that the potential audience was considerable for a recent Wegmans video focusing on the amazing seafood department in its new Astor Place store in Manhattan. Don’t know about you, but it makes me want to go there on […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Worth Reading:  “Self-Checkout Is a Failed Experiment”

The Atlantic has a piece suggesting that “all is not rosy in the world of self-checkout, and some companies seem to realize it. Walmart has removed the kiosks entirely from a handful of stores, and is redesigning others to involve more employee help. Costco is stationing more staffers in its self-checkout areas. ShopRite is adding […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Wegmans opens its first supermarket in Manhattan

NEW YORK — Wegmans Food Markets Inc., the Rochester, N.Y.-based grocer that operates 109 stores on the East Coast, opened its first supermarket in Manhattan on Wednesday. The 87,500 square-foot occupies two floors of the historic Wannamaker building at 770 Broadway, which was built in 1907 as an annex to the original Wannamakers department store […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

How Hy-Vee is Changing the Game with Digitized In-Store Experiences

Alex Lindstrom Hy-Vee, a prominent supermarket chain with a peak revenue of $12B in 2022, has seen continual success in its innovation strategy by implementing new digital technologies and taking chances to find out what works best for its customers and stores.  As a chain with a history of diverse and continually expanding services–including food […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  Filling A Void

On the subject of how Starbucks and its former CEO, Howard Schultz, handled unionization movements within the company, MNB reader Rich Heiland wrote: Back when I was in my first general manager’s job at a newspaper in 1978 I went to a day-long seminar on how to keep unions out of your business. That may […]
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