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...many of us stuck with cascading cans of soup and a two-year-old's tantrum in Aisle 6? The fact is, online supermarket shopping is in its infancy, and most of the $440 billion we spend annually filling the pantry goes to traditional grocers. Naturally, they are less than enthusiastic about giving that business up. "We're going to fight for every food dollar," says Michael Sansolo of the Food Marketing Institute, which represents the grocery establishment...
...recent drought threatening next year's crop in Brazil, the wholesale price of coffee has shot up some 80% in the past few months, from a five-year low of 80[cents] per lb. in early October. Last week, as rains drenched Brazil, the price dropped a bit. Still, supermarket brands like Folgers and Maxwell House, which cut the price of a 13-oz. can by a dime in August, are jacking it up by 30[cents]. For the moment, gourmet beans at Starbucks or Peet's are staying the same...
Miller, who transformed regional grocer Fred Meyer into a supermarket behemoth before it was sold to Kroger earlier this year, knows fixing Rite Aid will be an uphill battle, so he's bringing three top lieutenants to help him. "Bob really cares about the customer, and that wasn't always an attitude that pervaded Rite Aid," says Meredith Adler, analyst at Lehman Bros. "He's a talented manager and a real straight shooter...
...conglomerates. Now they may have to do battle with Softbank. "These keiretsu are going to face off like football teams," says Howard Anderson, founder of consultants the Yankee Group. Yahoo competes with Lycos, which CMGI covets, and Kleiner Perkins' WebGrocer will be up against Softbank's Webvan, another online supermarket based in California...
...next stop was a big supermarket in Maryland, just outside Washington. Giant Food is a chain here, kind of like PathMark in the Northeast or Winn-Dixie in the South. It had organic carrots for my gravy and organic half-and-half for my red smashed potatoes. But I couldn't find many of the other organic products I needed to be genetically pure...