By Emily Olsen Source: Healthcare Dive First published in 2005 by actuarial firm Milliman, the MMI reflects healthcare costs for an American family made up of a 47-year-old man, a 37-year-old woman, a 4-year-old child and a baby under 1 year old. Inflation had a significant impact on costs this [...]
By Vidhi Choudhary Source: Modern Retail The Save Mart Companies, which operates Save Mart Supermarkets, Lucky Supermarkets and FoodMaxx grocery chains, is taking steps to grow its digital and retail media business. In doing so, Save Mart is building out its retail media network in partnership with grocery tech vendor [...]
By Stacy Mitchell Source: The New York Times Food Fresh is the only grocery store in a rural stretch of southeastern Georgia. It has many five-star Google reviews praising its freshly butchered meats, tomato bar and friendly service. Yet it faces a threat to its survival that no amount of [...]
By Bill Wilson Source: Supermarket News Signs seem to point positively on the potential Kroger, Albertsons merger, as Albertsons continues to assemble its team around the $24.6 billion merger, according to reporting from the Philadelphia Business Journal. Former Acme Markets President Jim Perkins was recently named to lead SpinCo., the standalone public company which will contain [...]
By Bill Wilson Source: Supermarket News The list of those against the $24.6 billion Kroger, Albertsons merger continues to grow. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer advocacy organization, is now calling on the Federal Trade Commission to block the merger, stating it “would result in [...]
By Lynn Petrak Source: Progressive Grocer While consumers may not be sticking as close to home as they were over the past few years, they are clinging to their real and digital wallets. That’s a conclusion from new research released by Circana, formerly IRI and The NPD Group. The latest [...]
Source: Supermarket News The Feedback Group, which provides actionable stakeholder feedback, released findings from new national research conducted with 1,000 online food shoppers about their experience shopping for food and groceries. Supermarkets topped the list with an impressive overall satisfaction rating of 4.40 on a five-point scale. Amazon followed closely behind [...]
By Sabrina Eaton Source: Cleveland.com Legislation that would let cannabis companies access the banking system got its first-ever Senate hearing on Thursday. Although marijuana has been legalized or decriminalized in many states, legal cannabis businesses’ inability to access the banking system forces many to “operate in the shadows,” observed Senate [...]
By Bill Watson Source: Supermarket News Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen says the company's legal team has been warming up for quite some time. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, McMullen said lawyers were assembled way out in front of the $24.6 billion merger announcement with Albertsons. He said the team is [...]
By Jaewon Kang Source: The Wall Street Journal The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union said it opposes the planned merger between Kroger and Albertsons, adding to tensions over the $20 billion supermarket deal. UFCW International, the biggest U.S. union representing grocery workers, is concerned about what President Marc [...]