date:Apr 09, 2014
e 3 percent margins at U.S. grocer Kroger and France's Carrefour.
A director of another company which supplies Britain's big grocers said that this healthier margin offered significant scope for rebasing. Supermarkets could also cut back on costs, for example by swapping checkout staff for automated tills.
Suppliers are also changing strategies, ramping up marketing of their brands, like Premier Foods, or, like Greencore , expanding in growth areas such as sandwiches and sushi for the fast-gro