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Home » Shop Owners Are Expanding Their Food Selection in an Effort To Compete With Supermarkets

Shop Owners Are Expanding Their Food Selection in an Effort To Compete With Supermarkets

January 18, 2011 by Publisher

Reflecting a major shift in the way Americans shop for food, retailers better known for selling clothes or aspirin are expanding in a big way into the grocery business with fresh produce and frozen meats.

As a result, people who typically went to the grocery store once a week to stock up are instead stopping by places whose food items used to be limited to a bag of chips or a can of soup. Retailers are viewing it as an opportunity to increase sales by getting people in their stores more frequently. “It’s going to be a big food fight in the sense that you’re going to have so many people going after this sector,” Bill Dreher, a retail analyst with Deutsche Bank, told The New York Times.

Like the grocers, the convenience stores and discount stores are not making a lot of money on their groceries. Instead, the goal is to draw more customers, and it seems to be working.

The full story can be found HERE.

Category: Marketing & Management, Product News, Retail News Tags: food and beverage, shopping, trends

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