For many retailers, profit margins are thin and getting thinner — a concern all organizations must weigh in 2025 with price pressures, potential tariffs, and an uncertain economic outlook posing new challenges. The U.S. grocery business, for example, is operating at its lowest profit margin (1.6 percent) since before the pandemic, according to FMI |…
David Barach
A hot topic — and even election-year fodder — is food pricing and the cost of groceries. In response, retailers like Target, Walgreens, and Walmart have made headlines by announcing price drops on thousands of items since May. The question is, how did retailers with state-of-the-art pricing practices get so misaligned on pricing that it…