Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry —
Ruby Tuesday’s Rick Johnson
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, January 4, 2007 As part of our effort to better understand food safety procedures at foodservice operators we’ve run a series of Pundit Pulses. Del Taco’s Janet Erickson and Notre Dame’s Dan Crimmins started us off with the perspectives of two smaller operators but with both individuals very focused on produce. […]
Between Christmas and New Year’s, we are presenting “Pundit Classics,” pieces that ran previously that deserve a second look. Today we are reviewing some of our work on Tesco and its opening of retail stores in America.
Was Tesco’s Real Estate Decision A Result Of Hubris Or Humility?
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, December 20, 2007 One of the issues that keeps coming up in our discussion of Tesco’s new operation in America is real estate. It is fair to say that retail and real estate always intersect. We previously pointed out that Tesco was going to have a problem and wind up with […]
Will Tesco Keep Its Promises?
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, December 19, 2007 Our piece, Tesco Takes Heat For Not Supporting Underserved, pointed out that the Los Angeles Times has attacked Tesco for not fulfilling its promise to locate stores in the “food deserts” of Los Angeles — areas without supermarkets so that residents typically must pay the higher prices of […]
Tesco Observations From A Retail Pro
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, December 18, 2007 Our piece, Trip To Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Store Reveals The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, brought a response from one of America’s premier experts on produce retailing: I read with interest your article on your Fresh & Easy store visit. I have been monitoring that Eagle […]
Trip To Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Store Reveals The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, December 14, 2007 On a quick trip to California, the Pundit and Mrs. Pundit visited one of Tesco’s Fresh & Easy stores “up close and personal”. For those familiar with the Los Angeles area, we went to the store at 4211 Eagle Rock Blvd., a mixed community not too far from […]
Will Tesco Regret Operating Its Own Commissary?
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, December 4, 2007 The Financial Times ran a piece entitled, Tesco Adopts a New Business Recipe, which points out that Tesco in the US is operating its own central commissary, as opposed to operations in the UK and elsewhere, where it relies on outside firms to produce its prepared meals: Tesco […]
Tesco’s Secret Expansion Plan?
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, December 4, 2007 The Times of London ran a piece entitled, Tesco Begins its American Dream By Seeking Gold In California, which reports that although the operation is not yet a month old, Tesco is planning a major expansion, including building a twin of its Riverside facility in Stockton: Only three […]
Tesco, Polar Bears And Social Irresponsibility
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 30, 2007 Simon Uwins is the Chief Marketing Officer for Tesco’s Fresh & Easy chain, and for almost three months now he has kept posted on its web site a piece he wrote declaring that every Fresh & Easy store that opens will have a photo of polar bears in […]
Tesco Takes Heat For Not Supporting Underserved
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 21, 2007 Vendor reports are that sales at the newly opened Fresh & Easy stores are brisk with the chain easily exceeding its plans to sell twice per square foot what a conventional supermarket does. The same vendors, though, believe the initial price points are not sustainable and wonder if […]
