Comag Marketing Group, LLC

Restaurant meals are down, store-brand sales are up, and “low prices” are increasingly cited as the overriding factor in decsions about where to shop. A new FMI report, released Monday at the FMI Show in Las Vegas, also cites increased interest in nutrition and some lingering concern about the safety of food sold in supermarkets. [...]

In its report on FY 2006-2007, using data from 109 companies representing almost 13,000 stores, the Food Marketing Institute reported yesterday that the median, after-tax, net profit margins of food retailers were 1.91%.  That’s up from 1.46 a year earlier, and suggests that the industry is doing more than a few things right to overcome [...]