Study sees U.S. grocery wholesalers facing new and growing challenges
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Supermarket News] By Elliott Zweibach - December 11, 2014 -
Serious financial challenges are likely to continue for U.S. grocery wholesalers for at least the next five years, and companies that fail to improve efficiency and deliver increased value to customers will be in danger of shutting down, according to a report by IBISWorld.
Consumer demand at supermarkets is expected to increase slowly in 2015, “and this slow growth represents a potential threat to the [wholesale] industry,” the report indicated.
Posing a further threat is the trend among supermarkets and other food distributors to bypass wholesalers and buy directly from manufacturers and growers — a trend IBIS said has escalated quickly over the past three years because of rising food prices...
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