Grocery - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2016
Blog Post

CPD Global Market Update: Singapore

corporate sponsorship of hackathons to help identify new and exciting internet-enabled ventures. There has been a flurry of recent high-profile mergers, with Lazada soon to be acquiring online grocery provider Redmart, and Alibaba now... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Jul 2019
News

Turning Around Tesco

The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is... View Details

Keywords: Tesco; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

discuss each of these myths in turn. Size Of The Reward Loyalty programs do not really work in grocery stores because the rewards that grocery retailers can afford to offer are too small. They cannot offer... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

Portrait Project

Jon Rudoe

their lives better. My first task is to help my future employer make shopping for groceries easier and more efficient. I'm not really sure what comes next, but I plan for it to be challenging and fun. I plan to help British education... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: Frozen Assets

bland presentations have led most people to associate ready-made meals with “sacrifice and denial.” With health-care advocates from the Mayo Clinic to Michelle Obama encouraging Americans to shop the perimeter of the grocery store—where... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

01 Feb 2000
News

Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

vegetables and to package, chill, and ship the finished product, there is constant motion in Kettle Cuisine's cramped but immaculate Somerville, Massachusetts, kitchen. The 11,000-square-foot facility supplies more than two thousand restaurants and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Portrait Project

Ade' Lawal

wealth-creating use. My third great accomplishment will be simply the way I live. Besides aiming to live above my intellectual means, but within my financial means I would like to live my life in an exciting and exemplary way. I intend to run a marathon, hike the other... View Details

23 Jan 2017
News

The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee

In a profile of Peet’s Coffee CEO David Burwick (MBA 1989), the East Bay Times details the company’s growth under his watch: Since 2013, annual sales have jumped from $395 million to almost $800 million, 70 new locations have been added, and the company began selling... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

I Gave at the Office

ways. Some people might be more willing to give at a grocery store when they ask you to donate at the checkout counter. Other people might not give there but instead respond to a letter or email request. I think, rather than asking what... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

customer will buy his or her next car from them, and at that, a second purchase could well be years away. While many firms are clearly bent on getting big fast, some competitors are adopting a get-it-right-first strategy instead. One such company, Streamline.com, a... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

28 Apr 2020
News

Lessons from a COVID Survivor

Allow yourself to lean and be seen. Ruparell’s lifeline came from a broad network of friends and colleagues, who provided physical and emotional support, including grocery delivery and encouraging text messages during her illness. Let go... View Details

12 May 2016
News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

forensic accounting, the ability to adapt to clients’ needs, especially on such an enormous scale, is crucial. He points to SecondBite’s relationship with Coles, one of Australia’s largest supermarket chains, which joined the food-reuse effort. The View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2015
News

Case Study: Sneak Peak

to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course... View Details

Keywords: Whole Foods; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2000
News

Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

entertaining," Walker said. Priceline.com, a consumer-to-business Web site launched in 1998, sells groceries using the same "name your price" scheme it uses to sell surplus airline tickets and hotel rooms to travelers. Online shoppers are... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Supplying Demand

whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Jun 2007
News

James McKenney Remembered

consumers and the grocery industry. An avid fly fisherman, McKenney loved the outdoors. “His second home, in Montana, was part of a large working cattle ranch, and at times my father was actively involved in running it,” his son William... View Details

Keywords: Information

Profile

Eryn Schultz

me have the confidence to leave consulting and to take an operations job at a Texas-based grocery retailer. Not only would I get direct P&L responsibility, but I would also get to try moving back to my hometown and working in the food... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

adequately considered whether or when this is true. In a sense, they have a very blunt tool that they are overusing. Second, there is a constant battle for shelf space in most grocery stores. If you are Quaker Oats, you would like to have... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2014
News

Forecasting ’15

the scenes for a while. Almost everyone I know in the food packaging and grocery industry is a health nut. People are becoming more aware of their health and have a growing desire to find a way to eat and feel better. That will change... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2024
News

Turning Point: Make Your Life Count

The morning after one such grocery trip, I decided to crowdsource the money I didn’t have from my sixth-grade peers to get our teacher an end-of-year thank-you gift. This was my moment of clarity. The more my agency grew, the less the... View Details

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