Sobey’s Strategizes Its Growth In The Number Two Position
Saturday, May 4th, 2013Tweet Sobeys, Canada’s second largest food chain based in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, is poised to experience a significant change to its business as Target continues to open its new locations across Canada in 2013. As the official supplier of food to Target stores across the nation, Sobeys business is about to exponentially expand as Target [...]
Grocery Stores Offer Unique Products This Holiday Season
Sunday, December 16th, 2012Tweet Christmas time is a time unlike any other time throughout the year in which consumers buy various gifts for their loved ones. But gifts are not the only area that consumers spend their hard-earned dollars on. Entertaining is a major part of Christmas as well. Whether it is a staff Christmas party, having friends [...]
SINS Flashback – Sobeys “Star Of Christmas” TV Spots
Friday, December 16th, 2011Tweet Growing up in Halifax in the 1980′s – Sobeys was the BIG name in groceries. It was before Superstore and Walmart and your big holiday grocery shop was done at Sobeys. Back in the day, the Christmas season started when Sobeys long-running commercial “Star of Christmas” started playing on ATV. We all have those [...]
Updates: SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review
Friday, November 4th, 2011Tweet We are pleased to announce that updates are now available for six Canadian Retailers in our SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review. In this popular report we feature 24 of the largest publically traded retailers in Canada in concise one-page snapshots, which highlight the key achievements over the past year and a glimpse at [...]
Safeway Aims To Gobble Up Thanksgiving Market Share
Friday, October 7th, 2011Tweet I started noticing Safeway’s Thanksgiving television ads while watching Sunday NFL football back on September 22nd and thought it was innovative for the chain to try to “own” an important family eating event, second only to Christmas – I imagine. It is a pretty good fit with the Safeway brand, and the television ads [...]
Sobeys West Intensifies Its Lower Price Program
Saturday, August 27th, 2011Tweet This week Sobeys West stores are a sea of orange as part of their “New! Lower Prices Campaign”. Bright orange arrows decorate the flyer, end caps, floor stickers and shelf tags highlighting the “1000’s of items” with lower prices right across the store. All staff are wearing electric orange shirts which I assume they [...]
The Future Of Retailer-Supplier Data Sharing
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Tweet The big news out of the US this week is the announcement that Walmart will start sharing scan data with AC Nielsen for the first time in a very long time. According to an article in Retailing Today, the deal between Nielsen and Walmart, was negotiated by Cindy Davis – Walmart’s EVP of Global [...]
Canada’s Retail Execs Have A Tidy Payday
Monday, May 30th, 2011Tweet There was an interesting compensation survey in Monday’s Globe & Mail that showed the top paid executives at Canada’s largest corporations (by market capitalization). Several executives at Canadian retailers made the cut with some rather big paydays given the tight operating margins of the retail trade. Below are the retail executives that appeared in [...]
Target Looks To Reach $6 Billion in Canadian Sales
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Tweet Reuters reported this week that Target will be looking to achieve $6 billion in turnover at its Canadian operations as it looks to grow to a $100 billion company in six or seven years time. Target CFO Douglas Scovanner also seemed to give the first indication that the store count in Canada could reach [...]
SINS Must Read: Deloitte Global Powers of Retailing 2011
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011Tweet My favorite report on the global retail industry has just been released and you need to get a copy and give it a good read. This report reviews the performance of the Top 250 retailers in the world based on 2009 data – the latest available. It also reviews the global retail landscape with [...]
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