The NGA Foundation has awarded $71,000 in scholarship funding for the 2019-20 academic year to 16 students pursuing supermarket industry careers. “The NGA Foundation is committed to preparing students for the future,” noted Matt Ott, executive director of the Arlington, Va.-based organization. “This class of scholarship recipients represent the best of the supermarket industry, and I look forward to seeing their achievements as they complete [...]

How indie grocers are doing and how they can better compete was the focus of session at recent DCI conference How are independent grocers faring in this country? That was one of the questions explored at DCI’s Business Summit 2019, held last week in Toronto. Stan McClintock, vice-president of sales at FMS, a grocery retail consulting firm that publishes annual independent grocer financial surveys in [...]

Grocery Dive - 07/13/18 The National Grocers Association and FMS Solutions released their annual “Independent Grocers Financial Survey," which found independent grocers saw sales decrease 0.6% in 2017 compared to the year before. Despite the decline, the numbers are an improvement over last year’s results, which showed a 1.62% decrease in same-store sales, according to the Shelby Report. To read this article visit Grocery Dive

Supermarket News - 07/13/18 Rising competition and costs, along with lackluster customer spending, squeezed financial results for independent grocery store operators last year, according to a report from the National Grocers Association (NGA). Same-store sales for independents dipped 0.6% in fiscal 2017, according to the 2018 Independent Grocers Financial Survey released Tuesday by NGA and financial consulting partner FMS Solutions Holdings. The slight decrease, however, [...]