Amazon’s Grocery Business Is About Transportation, Not Groceries

September 26, 2013 Tompkins International

Amazon’s online grocery service, AmazonFresh, is gaining ground with customers who want to restock their pantries without leaving home. But Amazon’s true focus is building its transportation capacity, according to Jim Tompkins, CEO of Tompkins International, in a new podcast titled “What Business Is Amazon In? The Answer Will Change Your Thinking.”“Amazon is not in the grocery business,” says Tompkins. “They are in the technology business, the retail business, and for 51 percent of all Americans, they are in the transportation business.”

Loblaw Announces Appointment Of Chief Administrative Officer & EVP, Integration

September 26, 2013 Loblaw Companies Limited

Loblaw Companies Limited (TSX:L), today announced that veteran company executives Grant Froese and Mark Butler have been appointed to the newly created roles of chief administrative officer and executive vice president, integration, respectively.

Executive Leadership Changes Announced At Weis Markets

September 25, 2013 Weis Markets Inc.

Weis Markets Inc. announced Company President and CEO David J. Hepfinger has left the company to pursue other interests. Company Vice Chairman Jonathan H. Weis replaces him as interim CEO.  Robert F. Weis remains as Company Chairman.

Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals

September 25, 2013 Staff Reporter, NPR

Doug Rauch, the former president of Trader Joe's, is determined to repurpose the perfectly edible produce slightly past its sell-by date that ends up in the trash. (That happens in part because people misinterpret the labels, according to a out this week from Harvard and the National Resources Defense Council.) To tackle the problem, Rauch is opening a new market early next year in Dorchester, Mass., that will prepare and repackage the food at deeply discounted prices.

Gopher Grocery Injects Technology Into Age-Old Business

September 25, 2013 Nick Woltman, Pioneer Press

Although online grocery delivery seems like a no-brainer in the age of Amazon and Netflix — and William Orkin is quick to admit that he is far from the first entrepreneur to capitalize on the idea — Gopher Grocery