About XR23.com

I am pleased to announce our latest monthly e-newsletter, Xtreme Retail23.

XR23 will provide you with the latest information and analysis of technologies designed specifically for the retail environment. You will learn about in-store success models, get a preview of technology prototypes and get first-hand analysis of the benefits and timeline of industry leading applications. XR23 explores these issues more and more each month and discusses their impact on the retail environment through insights, consumer research and actual video demonstrations.

Xtreme Retail23 focuses on the business and consumer issues impacting 23 of the leading retail channels – from automotive to department stores to grocery to home supply to warehouse clubs, with the emphasis on how shoppers will (or will not) embrace these technologies.

In-store technologies are evolving faster than you can say “click”! Xtreme Retail23 delivers the knowledge and insights you need to guide your business into the 21st century. If you have any questions regarding the publication please feel free to contact me at: PLempert@XR23.com or by phone at 888-860-3071.

I am pleased to be joined each issue by the best and smartest minds and writers who will help us navigate into this new and unchartered sea of retail, technology and consumer issues. I hope you will take a moment and scroll down to read about the team behind Xtreme Retail23.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy and Xtremely prosperous 2005!

Phil Lempert

PS – as with all of our e-publications, our subscriber lists are confidential and never sold or bartered, and you may unsubscribe at any time. Our privacy policy may be accessed from the link at the bottom of the home page.

 

Phil Lempert Television & Radio News Reporter/ Newspaper Columnist/ Author/ Consumerologist/ Food Marketing Expert Philip Lempert has gained wide acclaim for his marketing savvy and broad experience in the food industry. A distinguished speaker, exclusively represented by the Washington Speakers Bureau, he has addressed over 600,000 people over the past ten years, and is the expert on the retail environment and new marketing trends/products in the food industry. The "Supermarket Guru®," Lempert is a respected analyst with an uncanny ability to identify and explain trends to both industry and consumers in a thought provoking and entertaining manner. He started out his life born into the food world by checking the supermarket shelves with his Dad, working at McDonald's and Howard Johnson's in High School, and after graduating Drexel University with a degree in Marketing and Retail Management worked in his family's food brokerage firm. Not content to rely on 'passive merchandising', Lempert began publishing the bi-weekly "The Lempert Report®" and became the 'spokesman' for food consumerism. Consumers recognize the Supermarket Guru® on television, radio and print: Lempert is the food trends editor and correspondent for NBC News' TODAY Show where he reports on consumer trends, food safety, money saving tips and showcasing new products. He has appeared numerous times on The View, Oprah, 20/20, CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC as well as on local television morning and news programs throughout the country. "Shopping Smart®" with Phil Lempert, is a weekly live call-in radio show on the WOR Radio Network and airs in over 100 cities nationwide including WOR's flagship New York station [710am]. Lempert's Shopping Smart® Tips air twice daily on stations throughout the country on the WOR Network. He is also a weekly contributor to BBC's Radio 5 Live. He has been profiled and interviewed by USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Oakland Tribune, Forbes, Newsweek and Ad Age. Phil is the founder and editor of Xtreme Retail 23 sponsored by IBM, and Facts, Figures & the Future, sponsored by ACNielsen and the Food Marketing Institute; both are monthly e-publications. Lempert's latest books are - Being the Shopper (John Wiley & Sons) and Healthy Wealthy & Wise (McCleery Publishing). Previously published books include : Phil Lempert's Supermarket Shopping & Value Guide, Top Ten Trends for Baby Boomers, and Crisis Management: A Workbook for Survival. His newest book, Phil's Picks: The SupermarketGuru's Guide to the Best Food Products, will be published by Workman Publishing in the fall of 2005. A resident of California, Lempert's roots are in the Belleville, New Jersey dairy farm started by his grandfather. The family food tradition carried on through his father's work as a food manufacturer, distributor and broker and to Phil Lempert, America's "Supermarket Guru®." You can contact him directly at Plempert@xr23.com

Sally Eckels, Managing Editor Sally Eckels came to SupermarketGuru.com with a diverse background from music and television to teaching., and now add Managing Editor to her responsibilities at Consumer Insight, Inc. After moving to Los Angeles from Georgia and working as a media specialist for elementary and middle school students, Sally met Phil and began working as managing editor of SupermarketGuru.com. With a business degree from Belmont University and two years at The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Sally also currently plays guitar, writes songs, and sings with the band Paper Sun (www.papersun.com) and was a regular character on the CBS television series “Christy.” Contact her at sally@xr23.com - (310) 392-0448

Kathy Nisivoccia Kathy started checking those supermarket shelves and attending food trade shows with Phil back in 1983. A working Mom with 3 daughters and an always hungry husband, Kathy makes sure that our visitors, readers, listeners and viewers are on top of the latest trends on radio and television. In XR23 she will share her keen insights into how people shop and how they use the latest in-store technologies.

Kevin Coupe Kevin Coupe, Contributing Editor to both Xtreme Retail 23 and SupermarketGuru.com and is a writer and analyst specializing in food retailing in the U.S. and around the world. Kevin captures the special relationship between shopkeeper and shopper, especially in a technological society in which the rules and roles are constantly changing.

Allison Bloom Allison Bloom is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer with expertise in food, health, travel, pets, women and teens. Originally from Miami, Florida, Allison honed her writing skills at The University of Texas in Austin, where she earned her keep in the trenches of The Daily Texan while earning two Bachelors degrees in literature and film. Currently she is working on a screenplay for young adults.