Retail & FoodService

Topco Associates LLC is pleased to announce its annual Corporate Brand Marketing Award winners – each of which has shown a true commitment to promoting Topco brands. …

Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, a Phoenix-based grocery chain specializing in produce and organic meats, plans to open 48 stores in six years in the Midwest, and it has targeted Dayton for one of its first stores. …

Whole Foods’ newest proposed location in Prince Georges Riverdale Park, announced by Whole Foods Market the same year as the plans to rapidly multiply its store count, illustrates how the chain is eager to tap the strong demand for its offerings across more communities, and appears to reflect a broader set of site-selection criteria to meet its growth goal. …

For most of us, the bulk of grocery shopping still happens in traditional supermarkets, where every aisle has a number and every fruit has a code. Robotic, predictable, processed, and packaged wastelands? Not necessarily. While others have rated supermarkets for profits, efficiency, customer service, and ethics, we're all about quality and selection. …

dunnhumby, the world’s leading customer science company, released their first Customer Centricity Index (CCI) measuring how well retailers are responding to the needs and wants of their customers – through the eyes of their customers. The dunnhumby Customer Centricity Index™ weighs customers’ perceptions of retailers against seven pillars or primary business areas most critical for achieving long-term customer centricity to help retailers understand where and how they can improve. …