I’ve been asked a lot lately about the Albertsons/Kroger merger and what it means for our industry. Every time I think, “What is the deal thesis...
Author - John Ross
President and CEO of IGA
John Ross is the president and CEO of IGA, the world’s largest voluntary supermarket network with aggregate worldwide retail sales of over $40 billion per year.
It’s still early in 2023, and I can’t help but think how strange the last few years have been. Just three years ago, Americans were hearing about a...
The biggest recent news in our industry was the announcement that Albertsons and Kroger plan to merge. This isn’t the first time that bigger players...
I hear it all the time, “Eventually people have to come back to work, right?” Everywhere I go in the U.S. and other countries – as I talk to...
Many years ago, I taught economics to middle school students. Imagine the look on their faces, learning that first day they had to sit through a...
Fertilizer isn’t a glamorous topic. Far from it. But it’s a key player in the game of rising food costs. Plants need nitrogen, potassium and other...
What happened in 2010? We should all know the significance of this year. It is the year that Americans started spending more on food away from home...
“I know what I know; the problem is that I don’t know what I don’t know.” In business, and in life, awareness of what you don’t know can be critical...
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