Bill Weymer is a big fan of market ...

Bill Weymer is a big fan of market research. As the vice president of operations for Brown & cabbage it's his job to diocese what he can do to acquire the most out of his store locations, in the way that any little tidbit of industry information can be as worthy as gold.

When your competition ranges from the gigantic (Wal-Mart and Fr Meyer are among the biggest retailers in the world, while Safeway and Albertson's are big at national standards) to companies of similar size (Haggen) to the small-but-flexible (R Apple stores, Community feed Co-Op), getting the right read in succession the ...