How to Win Back Customers

grocery store deli counter

NPR’s food-related blog site “the salt” added a great post this week on how grocery chains need to evolve and get creative to win back customers who now have more shopping channels to choose from. Although traditional grocery stores have been losing market share (per the article, 15% over the past 10 years), many chains are proving that there are numerous ways to fight back. We have touched on some of these in past posts here on our own site, including the first one listed below which was the topic of our most recent post.

Here are 5 ways grocery chains are innovating: Continue reading

In-Store Bars and Dining

Bar Counter and Cabinets

I have come across a rash of articles lately profiling supermarket chains that are adding in-store bars and restaurants. In Hy-Vee’s new Des Moines stores, their Market Grilles offer casual dining, along with craft beer selections and large TV screens. Another example: Whole Foods is currently in the process of adding in-store dining and bars to their new stores in the Chicago market. Around the country, other grocery chains Continue reading

Gravity Taproom & Grille

We recently finished custom interior work for a new bar/restaurant, Gravity Taproom & Grille, located here in Grand Rapids. Above is a picture profile featuring some of this work (click on a photo to zoom).

To see more photos and to learn the key details related to this project, click here.