Boston Public Market Construction To Begin

October 7, 2014 Casey Ross, Boston Globe

The Boston Public Market will not be a fancy place. The long-planned center for Massachusetts farmers and food makers will feature concrete floors and simple stalls, no wine bars serving oysters and champagne. Organizers say the market is designed to be devoid of pretention and full of fresh food. And by next summer, it will finally be open to shoppers.

Online Grocery Sales Expected To Quadruple

October 7, 2014 The Food Institute

By 2023, online grocery sales are projected to range between $80 billion to $123 billion according to new statistics released by Steve Bishop of Brick Meets Click (BMC) in a presentation at The Food Institute webinar "Get In On The Growth of Online Shopping," on Oct. 1. If realized, even at the middle of those two projections online grocery sales would exceed today's sales of the nation's largest supermarket chain, Kroger.

Walmart Stops Matching Florida Competitors’ Buy-One-Get-One Offers

The discount retailer will no longer match buy-one-get-one free offers at competitors' grocery stores in Florida, including Publix, its top rival.

Study Reveals Consumers Actually Enjoy Grocery Shopping

October 6, 2014 Acosta Sales & Marketing

While American consumers have traditionally viewed grocery shopping as a mundane chore, new research from Acosta Sales & Marketing reveals most shoppers now like to grocery shop. According to Acosta’s latest The Why? Behind the Buy report released, 54 percent of total U.S. shoppers say they enjoy grocery shopping, up from 41 percent in 2011.

SpartanNash $1.3B Merger Hinged On Keeping Debt In Check, Executing On Integration

October 6, 2014 Joe Boomgaard, MiBiz

The structure of the “transformational” merger last year that created SpartanNash Inc. set the Byron Center-based company on a course to take advantage of the growing consolidation trend in the supermarket industry.