Diversity & Inclusion

In the hunt for young talent, grocers are losing out to consumer packaged goods companies.

No shortage of consultants will tell you how to find and keep crackerjack staffers.

Pete Luckett learned all about sales and retail while working as a teenager in England’s competitive open markets.

Anthony Longo was born into the grocery business.

Frank Coleman is CEO of Colemans Food Centres in Newfoundland.

IGA Gazaille’s Annick Gazaille is the true definition of an innovative, resourceful, passionate grocer.

Small, tough and independent, more than a century ago family grocers set the stage for today’s retail food industry.

Bill Chen arrived in Toronto, in 1999, from Fuqing, China, and immediately began working in a supermarket.

François Bouchard has made good on a promise he made back in 1986 as the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers’ first scholarship recipient: to give back to the industry.

After graduating from Harvard with an MBA in 1991, Eric La Flèche called up Pierre Lessard, then president of Metro, and asked for a job.