Retailers Rate Brewers

CM Profit Group's Tom Fox shared with us a summary of his yearly survey of how chain retailers view varying beer, wine, and spirits suppliers as it pertains to their off-premise category management efforts. A few things jumped out at us. First, Tom included wine and spirits suppliers in this year's survey, as there is growing access to wine and spirits in all chain channels because of the increasing number of chain outlets allowing wine and liquor sales as its