Progressive Grocer Magazine - November 2019

In this issue

Grocery shopping today is in the midst of an evolution.
Retailers are adopting a number of technology solutions to
face the challenges of tomorrow and ensure a brighter future.
In the modern grocery enterprise, adoption of technology and
digital transformation involves embracing advanced digital
tools that optimize decision-making, learns as it goes,
recommends next-best actions, and moves at a faster speed
than ever before.
Unlike the prior years, when technology was viewed as a
necessary evil, grocers are embracing tech investment today
as a hedge against fast moving competitors and a catalyst
for growing revenue and earning the loyalty of omni-channel
shoppers.
A big reason for the embrace of technology today is the
growing maturity of off-the-shelf solutions, especially in such
areas as merchandise management, the supply chain and
labor management. Another reason is that cloud options offer
grocers a new delivery model that can be less expensive and
less burdensome to deploy for the IT department.
The embrace of digital transformation by grocers is a major
theme playing out today and it spawns a large multi-phase, multiyear
process. Although much work is being done to make grocery
stores digitally ready and reliant, much more work lies ahead
as grocers seek to grow their businesses in a highly competitive
environment and meet the rising expectations of their customers

Planning For Healthier Holidays

Retailers can follow some simple marketing and merchandising tips during the festive season.

2 mins

How To Create Extraordinary — Or Wow — Retail Experience For Shoppers

Retailer have started focussing a lot on creating wow experiences for shoppers; yet, somehow, a mere 35%, or a third of shoppers, have had “an extraordinary” or “wow” retail experience, says a study by Wharton research.

4 mins

Flushing Friction

Checkout-free or cashierless technologies inch closer to implementation in large grocery retail.

6 mins

'From 54 Stores Currently, We Plan To Grow To 100 Stores By 2022'

Vijetha Supermarkets is among the biggest Food & Grocery retailers in Hyderabad and the State of Andhra Pradesh with 54 fruitful stores spanning 2.5 lakh square feet in retail area. With 20 years of excellence in understanding customer needs and delivering fresh and quality groceries, the retailer has earned a reputation for offering fresh and high quality products at a reasonable price to the customers. “Our retail philosophy is to provide freshness, choice, value and service to our customers by making available at our fruitful stores everything that is essential for daily home needs and offering our customers the best deals and bargains,” says Jagan Mohan Rao, Chairman and Managing Director, Vijetha Supermarkets, who along with his wife and better half Krishnaveni laid the groundwork of the Vijetha retailing empire, which is now on path to adding newer and more spacious outlets under its banner. “Going forward, we will open new super stores and hypermarkets and aim to grow our store count to 100 by 2022, adds Rao.

5 mins

Next-Generation Considerations

Retailers need to focus on data visibility, tech-savvy labor and new store configurations to accommodate their future grocery shoppers.

5 mins

Life Of The Party

Grocers can engage consumers with gourmet items for special occasions.

5 mins

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Progressive Grocer Magazine Description:

PROGRESSIVE GROCER has been the voice of the food retail industry for over 80 years in the USA. Serving a wide audience in the Indian market, Progressive Grocer India's readers are top management at headquarters and top decision makers at store level. By anticipating, reporting and interpreting important data and trends, PROGRESSIVE GROCER fulfils its mission of identifying and highlighting insights and opportunity for leading grocery retailers, thereby accelerating brands and sales success for leading manufacturers