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77th Annual Report of the Grocery Industry: Looking up, Cautiously
Stagnito Media, April 2010, Pages: 15
After enduring a year of tough retail competition and finicky shopping habits, America¹s grocers are ready to kiss the doom and gloom goodbye, and focus instead on the silver linings that have begun to emerge, according to analysis by the Progressive Grocer team.
The 15-page report's exclusive research includes in-depth information on 2009 supermarket sales, average supermarket performance measures, shopper traffic, the importance of merchandising/marketing strategies, and competitive threats, among many other issues of importance to supermarket operators.
Progressive Grocer's 77th Annual Report of the Grocery Industry is based primarily on an exclusive survey conducted among headquarters executives and store managers at supermarket chains, independents and wholesalers. A total of 381 responses are included in the final results. A total of 46.6 percent classify themselves as independent operators, that is, they use a wholesaler. A total of 29.8 percent represent chains, who self-distribute, while 23.6 percent are from wholesalers or wholesale-owned stores. A total of 36.5 percent of respondents operate 1 to 10 stores, 15.2 percent have 11 to 99 stores and 48.3 percent operate 100 stores or more. Regionally, 32.8 percent are headquartered in the Midwest, 17.3 percent are from the West, 25.2 percent are from the Northeast and 24.7 percent are from the South.
Additional store count and sales data was provided by TDLlinx, a Nielsen Company, which maintains a national database of supermarket and other retail format locations. Consumer behavior data was provided by from their Homescan panel of more than 125,000 households.
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