Ten Reasons Why U.S. Chains Should Be Concerned About Tesco And Target
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, May 3, 2007 There is a new research report out authored by analysts at JP Morgan entitled Supermarket Industry Review and Outlook: Is There Room for Two More Giants? It is unusually insightful and brings to the fore crucial points that are often overlooked. First, it points out that consolidation May […]
Tesco’s US/Japan Small-Store Strategy Contrasts With Wal-Mart’s Big-Store Plan
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, April 24, 2007 With Tesco’s announcement that it would open a chain of small food stores in Japan and its previously announced plans to open a series of small supermarkets in the U.S., while Wal-Mart remains focused on its supercenter format, the battle between Wal-Mart and Tesco seems to resemble that […]
Tesco In America: Real Estate
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, March 2, 2007 It May be Fresh, But it Won’t be Easy is the name of a new Credit Suisse report on Tesco’s American venture that we’ve been studying lately. We started out with Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy, and then ran a piece entitled, Tesco In America: . We […]
Tesco vs. Target
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, March 1, 2007 We’ve been running a series analyzing a Credit Suisse report on Tesco’s new American venture. We started out with Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy, and then ran a piece entitled, Tesco In America: Foodservice vs. Prepared Foods. Yesterday we looked at Tesco vs. Costco, and today we […]
Tesco vs. Costco
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, February 28, 2007 We’ve run several pieces regarding Tesco’s move into the American market. In the last few days we’ve been studying a research report on Tesco done by Credit Suisse, first with a piece entitled, Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy, and then with a piece entitled, Tesco In America: […]
Tesco In America:
Foodservice vs. Prepared Foods
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, February 27, 2007 In our piece, Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy, we referenced a research report from Credit Suisse entitled, It May Be Fresh, But It Won’t Be Easy. One of the more intriguing comments in the report deals with Tesco’s supposed plans to sell a lot of prepared foods: […]
Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, February 23, 2007 It May be fresh, but it won’t be easy. We’ve dealt with Tesco and its plans in America both here and here. Wall Street has also gotten into the game, and some clever analysts at Credit Suisse entitled their report: It May Be Fresh, But It Won’t Be […]
Some Food Safety Leadership Council Members Back Down On Demands
We have run many pieces regarding the Food Safety Leadership Council; you can read the most recent ones here, here, here and here. We previously explained that after the vituperative letters that went out here, here and here, quiet discussions are now going on both with individual vendors and the larger industry. Although Food Safety […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Welcome To The
World Of Retail-Imposed Standards
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 16, 2007 Following our two Pundits on the controversy between WGA and the Food Safety Leadership Council, which you can read here and here, we heard from several of our friends in the U.K. Their take was that of empathy for the growers, as they have already been through this, […]
Back Channel Discussions
On The Food Safety Leadership Council
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 16, 2007 As our initial pieces and follow-up articles pointed out, the method of Food Safety Leadership Council members trying to enforce their standards upon growers has caused quite a controversy. Back channel communication with a lot of different parties has led to a few points: Legal is behind a […]
