While the industry continues to grapple with the realities of the economic turmoil that has thrust consumers toward a back-to-basics approach with food shopping, the meat department held its ground as the backbone business for many grocers in a year-to-year comparison, according to insights revealed in Progressive Grocer's 2009 Meat Operations Review. "Solid Ground" is a three-page .pdf containing eight charts, most illustrating exclusive PG research on such timely topics as department performance, meat executives' reactions to rising costs, the effect of economic conditions and problems facing the meat department. To download the report, click here.