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Table of Contents JUNE/JULY 2009 • VOLUME 88 • NUMBER 5 18 63 60 94 “Everything inside these four walls has been picked up, moved and/or replaced to some deegree.” — Jeff Zivek, store manager, Giant Eagle Express, Harmar Township, Pa. • Page 89 Cover Story 18 Industry Achievement: The Top 100 Women in Grocery The third annual Top Women in Grocery nominations topple the scale, leading to the introduction of the Top 100 Women in Grocery. 114 Real Estate: Bigger is not Always Better A seasoned store operations and market analyst offers practical tips about building the optimal store size to match a location’s marketplace and realistic sales projection. 60 Fresh Developments: Consumer Shifts Create New Complexities for Fresh Food Trading Partners With the economy serving as a chief catalyst of change for fresh department sales, buck-stretching has become the new ‘norm’ for consumers and retailers alike. pizza, as well as upgrading to finer-quality cheese, can help increase sales at the cheese counter. 102 Beverage Alcohol: A Cup of Cheer Recent research shows how supermarket retailers can grow beverage alcohol sales at their stores — and why the category is worth developing. Features 44 Multicultural Marketing: 2050 is Today Multicultural marketing is still in its infancy in comparison to the sheer force the ethnic market represents to consumer sales. 116 Technology: At Your Service Three wholesaler IT executives share how they work with their retailer-partners. 72 Produce: Brimming With Possibilities Many progressive grocers — Tops Friendly Markets among them — are primed to help shoppers enjoy and support the fruits (and vegetables) of local farmers’ labors at the outset of a particularly promising summer selling season. 110 Frozen Foods: Frozen Vegetable Sales are Steaming The frozen vegetable category has mushroomed over the past three years with steam technology and a variety of new offerings. Special Section 63 Health Beauty Wellness: Customer Care Whether they’re soothing a cough or a diaper rash, consumers are looking to grocers to stock solutions for what ails them. 46 Retailer of the Year: Celebrating Kroger PG and leading suppliers celebrated Kroger’s selection of the 2009 Retailer of the Year. Departments 10 Nielsen’s Shelf Stoppers/ Spotlight: Cheese/Shredded Cheese Market Snapshot: Sacramento-StocktonModesto, Calif. Independents Report: The Advantages of Older Associates Lempert Report: Food Experts Tackle the Economy Equipment Innovations What’s Next: Editors’ Picks for Innovative Products 76 Meat: Fired Up! Grocers are rustling up a bundle of blazing strategies to help consumers make grilling more thrilling. 82 Store of the Month: Giant Eagle’s Express-Ohhh! Less than two years after popping the cork on its first small-footprint store, Giant Eagle reworked the blueprint — from soup to nuts, literally — to play up a multitude of prepared foods alongside a cultivated selection of grocery offerings that customers buy most. Fresh Food 56 2009 Deli/Bakery Operations Review: Shrink-Wrapped Deli margins continue their shrink, but total sales are up 3.2 percent. Only 40 percent report an increase in deli sales, while bakery numbers are on the rise, according to 73 percent of respondents. 12 Grocery 94 Cheese: Cooked Cheese and Other Spiritual Revelations Cooked cheese is nothing new to consumers, but getting them to move beyond cheeseburgers, nachos and 14 16 121 130 4 • Progressive Grocer • June/July 2009 A H E A D O F W H AT ’ S N E X T www.progressivegrocer.com http://www.progressivegrocer.com

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Nielsen’s Shelf Stoppers/ Spotlight: Cheese/Shredded Cheese
Market Snapshot: Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, Calif.
Independents Report: The Advantages of Older Associates
Lempert Report: Food Experts Tackle the Economy
Industry Achievement: The Top 100 Women in Grocery
Multicultural Marketing: 2050 is Today
Retailer of the Year: Celebrating Kroger
2009 Deli/Bakery Operations Review: Shrink-Wrapped
Fresh Developments: Consumer Shifts Create New Complexities for Fresh Food Trading Partners
Produce: Brimming With Possibilities
Meat: Fired Up!
Store of the Month: Giant Eagle’s Express-Ohhh!
Cheese: Cooked Cheese and Other Spiritual Revelations
Beverage Alcohol: A Cup of Cheer
Frozen Foods: Frozen Vegetable Sales are Steaming
Real Estate: Bigger is not Always Better
Technology: At Your Service
Equipment Innovations
What’s Next: Editors’ Picks for Innovative Products

Progressive Grocer - June/July 2009