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FROM THE EDITOR KITCHENWARE NEWS & HOUSEWARES REVIEW n SEPTEMBER 2018 n www.kitchenwarenews.com Periodicals postage paid at Tucson, AZ and additional mailing office. Kitchenware News & Housewares Review (USPS012-625) is published 12 times per year (Jan., Feb., March, April, May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec.) by Oser Communications Group, 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ, 85715 520.721.1300. Publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material or prices quoted in newspaper. Contributors are responsible for proper release of proprietary classified information. ©2018 by Oser Communications Group. All rightsreserved Reproduction, in whole or in part, without written permission of the publisher, is expressly prohibited. Back issues, when available, cost $8 each within the past 12 months. Back issue orders must be paid in advance by check. Kitchenware News & Housewares Review is distributed without charge in North America to qualified professionals in the retail and distribution channels of the upscale kitchenware and tabletop trade. For subscriber services, including subscription information, call 520.721.1300. Printed in the USA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kitchenware News & Housewares Review, 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715. PUBLISHER Kimberly Oser SR. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Jules Denton-Card jules_d@oser.com EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Lorrie Baumann lorrie_b@oser.com SR. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Robin Mather robin_m@oser.com ASSOCIATE EDITOR Greg Gonzales greg_g@oser.com Amanda Helt amanda_h@oser.com ART DIRECTOR Yasmine Brown GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jonathan Schieffer ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Anthony Socci anthony_s@oser.com CUSTOMER SERVICE Caitlyn McGrath MANAGERS caitlyn_m@oser.com Susan Stein susan_s@oser.com CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Tara Neal CIRCULATION MANAGER Jamie Green jamie_g@oser.com Kitchenware News & Housewares Review is a publication of Oser Communications Group Inc. 1877 N. Kolb Road • Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300 www.kitchenwarenews.com www.oser.com FOUNDER Lee M. Oser OSER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP editor from the The Albertsons store nearest my neighborhood closed recently. To tell you the truth, I don't know exactly when – what with the Fancy Food Show, Slow Food Nations and a visit to Haystack Mountain Creamery, I feel like I've been in the air more than I've been at home this summer. But when I went to the shopping plaza where the store is – was – located last weekend, there was plywood sheeting across the door and the sign was gone. Just gone. After Albertsons bought Safeway, I wondered how long both my Albertsons store and the Safeway store that's a mile down the same street would both survive, but somehow I was confident that since I visit that Safeway store only now and then, and I was shopping at the Albertsons more often, it would be the Safeway store that would ultimately close. In hindsight, I had nothing to base that confidence on except my own bias. I'm mourning a little bit here because I have actual meaningful memories of shopping at that store. When my daughter brought her family to visit me a couple of years ago, I took her to that Albertsons to view the wonders of a liquor department with a cooler full of beer right in the actual grocery store. She sent a picture of the beer cooler to her husband so he could tell her what to buy for him. It was fun. I have no idea where there's another Albertsons store, although I imagine there's another not too far away, and I won't be visiting the surviving Safeway store any more often because both of those stores are out of the pathway between our Gourmet News office and my home. Albertsons was my Saturday store. Now I'm going to have to figure out what to do about this. I do have plenty of other options, and I realize that's probably a big part of the reason why my store had to close. But it was really only when I saw that plywood over the door that I realized what that store meant to me. I hope that not too many other people in this country have to make the same discovery over the next few years. The retail apocalypse is happening – there seems to be a pretty strong consensus that this country is just overbuilt on retail – but it's our mission here at Gourmet News and Kitchenware News to do our best to keep all of you from falling victim to it. Don't hesitate to drop us a line at editor@oser.com to let us know how you think we can do a better job of that. Stay well, everyone! KN Lorrie Baumann, Editorial Director 4 KITCHENWARE NEWS & Housewares Review