On the heels of a disruptive year, we are entering a new era of grocery retail. The global COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a wider variety of shopper profiles that now expect different shopping journeys. In 2021, how can grocers navigate these customer profiles, lock in gains, remain essential, keep up [...]
Over the decades, America has had some anti-union and some pro-union presidents. But it’s never had one take a stand on behalf of a union organizing drive as forthright and powerful as the statement President Biden issued Sunday. Biden took aim at Amazon’s opposition to an organizing drive among its [...]
Costco will raise its starting rate for hourly store workers in the United States to $16 an hour, putting its starting wage above rivals such as Amazon, Target and Best Buy. Costco has around 180,000 US employees, and 90% of them work hourly. It will hike its minimum wage to [...]
The upscale grocery store Gelson’s Markets is being acquired by Pan Pacific International Holdings, the parent company of Marukai Corp. and Tokyo Central. Terms of the deal with TPG Capital in San Francisco — announced Tuesday, Feb. 23 — were not disclosed. PPIH was founded over 40 years ago by [...]
Protesters rallied outside a Ralphs supermarket in Long Beach, calling for a boycott of the store and its parent company. View the video. Source: Yahoo! News
The total U.S. online grocery market posted $9.3 billion in sales during January as more than 69.7 million U.S. households placed on average 2.8 orders across delivery, pickup and ship-to-home according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded Jan. 28-31, 2021. The delivery and pickup segment captured $7.1 [...]
John Oliver has taken aim at the meatpacking industry in a fiery new episode of his HBO series Last Week Tonight. The host decided not to focus on the horrific conditions facing animals as “they do get talked about a lot” and instead look at how the humans working at [...]
FMI-The Food Industry Association today kicked off Supermarket Employee Day, a new industrywide campaign to recognize the efforts of the grocery sector’s workforce. FMI proclaimed Feb. 22 as Supermarket Employee Day in mid-January. The trade group noted that the importance of supermarkets as the “backbone of their communities” and their [...]
The past week had been a nightmare. A winter storm, one of the worst to hit Texas in a generation, robbed Lanita Generous of power, heat and water in her home. The food she had stored in her refrigerator and freezer had spoiled. She was down to her final five [...]
Grocery store workers in the United States have been stocking shelves, handling customers and keeping stores tidy in challenging and sometimes dangerous pandemic conditions for almost a year. But a vaccine that once offered these essential workers hope for their safety remains elusive for most. Although coronavirus risks are high [...]