American consumers are balancing the need to save money on consumer packaged goods with the need to conserve petrol, so they are turning to major shopping centres to make fewer and larger shopping trips. Information Resources, Inc.’s (IRI) latest research, ‘Times & Trends: Channel Migration 2008′, reveals that shopping centres were the only store type to achieve sales gains across six key grocery retail department areas during the last year, while traditional grocery... ...Read more »