Get To Know Our Food City 2021 Store Manager Award Finalist
What’s in a name? Plenty, when you’re Hugh “Rusty” Rollins, manager of a Food City store in Athens, Tennessee. This is a store manager who knows most of his customers by name after working for the company for nearly 40 years. In turn, his nominators say, almost everyone in the community knows Rollins.
Solar Energy Has Bright Outlook in Food Retail
As more companies have looked to reduce their electricity consumption and carbon footprints in recent years, exploring renewable energy has become a logical next step. Leading chains such as Kroger, Publix, Aldi, H-E-B, Giant Eagle, Stop & Shop, Giant Food, Whole Foods, Target and Walmart are among those that have added solar panels to stores and other facilities, and a few retailers have set impressively high standards around renewable energy.
The Outlook for Digital Shopping in 2021
In 2020, we saw a rise in digital shopping like never before—particularly for the grocery sector. FMI and NielsenIQ have partnered on an annual journey to analyze the digital food shopper. At a time when looking to the future can be difficult, we’ve outlined some predictions and lessons-learned in a convenient infographic
Get To Know Our Skogen's Festival Foods 2021 Store Manager Award Finalist
When it comes to successful store leadership, Keith Buswell keeps it in the family. This particular family is a team of employees at the Skogen’s Festival Foods store in Onalaska, Wisconsin. Indeed, his team rarely leaves home—his store has the lowest turnover rate of the company’s 33 locations and is well below the average for the grocery industry. This high retention is notable at a time when frontline workers are facing the stress of a global pandemic that greatly affects food shopping.
Food as Medicine in Food Retail, Where the Rubber Meets the Road
The food retail setting provides unique opportunity for registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) to help improve public health by literally meeting customers in the aisles (or perhaps on the grocery store website) as they navigate food choices and make shopping decisions on a regular basis. Supermarket dietitians are in a very accessible sweet spot between healthcare and public health, where the rubber meets the road, providing innovative, nutrition-focused, solution-oriented guidance for shoppers.
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