Category Archives: Part 2: Ownership, Strategy Mix, Online, Nontraditional

This sub-category encompasses retail institutions by ownership type, retail institutions by store-based strategy mix, and Web, nonstore-based, and other nontraditional forms of retailing.

Grocery Stores Shifting Much More to Social Media

With the continuing decline in their long-time favorite advertising medium (newspapers), many food retailers are planning to do a lot more promotion through social media over the next 5 years. Click the eMarketer chart to learn more.

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Kindlemania?

This week, Amazon made a major announcement of a new series of Kindle Fires and Kindles through the media and at its Web site. And NPD offered its take on this. Read the announcement and the commentary beneath it. After analyzing the … Continue reading

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McDonald’s Adding Vegetarian Outlets in India

McDonald’s operates and franchises outlets around the world. According to its Web site: “McDonald’s is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than 33,500 local restaurants serving nearly 68 million people in 119 countries each day.” Eighty percent of its … Continue reading

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