Food and Staples Retailing: As Supercenters Intensify Competition, Quality and Service Become Critical
The food and staples retailing industry is a high-volume, low-margin business, with cutthroat competition from all quarters. The industry includes grocery stores and supermarkets, drugstores, convenience stores and gas stations, and food distributors and grocery wholesalers. This is a mature industry and non-cyclical in nature.
