Whether you own a grocery store or shop at one, you already know the COVID-19 crisis has had a massive impact on the consumer products supply chain as panic buying and hoarding have created unprecedented volatility in demand patterns for groceries an...
Interview conducted by: Lynn Fosse, Senior Editor, CEOCFO Magazine, Published – October 7, 2019 Mr. Fields, what is the focus at Park City Group, today? Mr Fields: Our primary mission is to help retailers and their suppliers do a better job for ...
Despite some high-profile supplier departures and a belief among at least some in the industry that stores might be better served dealing with fewer suppliers, consumer shopping trends portend a continued increase in direct-store delivery as a means ...
Consumers have made it clear that they are looking for more local and specialty products in their neighborhood supermarkets. This is the most recent, and perhaps most pronounced, phase in the evolution of consumer tastes and preferences, a trend that...
“When retailers allow a supplier to do direct store deliveries to their stores, they have made a deal with the Devil.” So says Randy Fields, the CEO of the Park City Group, and the former Chairman of Mrs. Fields Cookies. As a former retail executive ...
Inventories have ballooned nearly three-fold over the last two decades as localization has been embraced to protect market share and profitability. Yet, localization just might hasten the death of certain banners unless steps are taken to control the...
Consumers have made it clear that they are looking for more local and specialty products in their supermarkets. This is the most recent – and perhaps most pronounced – phase in the evolution of consumer tastes and preferences. It is a trend that star...
Properly integrated, the right warehouse and inventory management systems can help drive down out-of-stocks. The average supermarket has tens of thousands of SKUs. But shoppers are most likely to remember the ones that aren’t there. Out-of-stoc...
Kings Food Markets has implemented a new advanced commerce platform that optimizes inventory, lowers costs and increases sales. Repositrak‘s scan-based trading (SBT) solution, from Salt Lake City-based Park City Group, gives the upscale grocer ...
PROBLEM Mergers and acquisitions gained this nationally recognized baker additional distribution which included independent operators. It also gained them different technology systems that didn’t communicate with each other which made keepin...
