CSP Magazine | December 2011

What’s Your Forecast?

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The human forecast on this recent day said partially cloudy, but I chose to look at it as partially sunny despite the facts. My all-time favorite heavyweight, Smokin’ Joe Frazier, had died; my hometown New England Patriots fell in eerie fashion to the New York Giants; and yet another woman had come out—this time with name and face—to accuse GOP presidential orator Herman Cain of inappropriate sexual conduct during his tenure as head of a national trade group.

Whence the sun? 

Also in this Issue

Read all about why CSP has chosen DePinto as its 2011 Retail Leader of the Year.

Friends, family, co-workers honor 7-Eleven boss DePinto.

In 2011 CSP Outlook Survey, retailers attempt to move beyond flat.

New Giant To Go offers customers a healthy dose of fresh foods.

Will Tesoro’s recent acquisition spur a new kind of M&A?

Pret A Manger tries to translate U.K. success to the American marketplace.

Retailers won battle of Durbin Amendment, but who really won the war?

Try walking a mile as a shopper who is female, Hispanic or of a different generation.

Bottom-tier cigarette makers struggle as gap tightens between premium and discount.

Propel, PC&F carve out renewable-fuels deal that could be industry template.

As tax credits end, natural-gas fuel industry attempts to set anchor.

Is lottery a market-basket builder or low-margin line clogger?

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