Source: The Economist Americans have long been proud of their supermarkets. The first grocer with food in aisles, to be picked up by shoppers rather than kept behind a counter, opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916. In Bentonville, the hometown of Walmart in north-west Arkansas, Americans flock to a bombastic [...]
By Gina Acosta Source: Progressive Grocer Kroger is looking to give both inflation-weary shoppers and its bottom line a boost by expanding its loyalty program across the country. During a strong first quarter earnings report, the grocery chain announced that it would be rolling out its Boost membership program (first [...]
By Emily Sanders Source: PYMNTS.com Today in retail, inflation-smacked consumers content to eat dinner and watch movies at home for now, while retailers are using cash incentives to encourage customers to pick up their orders. Plus, Harrods postpones summer sale amid supply chain hang-ups. With spiraling food and gasoline prices [...]
Source: Supermarket News Even as price inflation hits food retailers and consumers alike, customers have lofty estimates of supermarket profits, new research from The Feedback Group reveals. Grocery shoppers believe their primary store enjoys a net profit of 33%, according to a national study conducted by The Feedback Group with more [...]
By Jeff Metzger Source: Food Trade News It’s too early to call it a trend, but all non-union retailers surely have been put on notice with the recent unionization successes of Amazon and Starbucks. Another merchant where associates have also ratified a new, first-time contract is FreshDirect, the pure-play online [...]
By Nathaniel Meyersohn Source: CNN Business Decades-high inflation is changing US consumers’ grocery habits. Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery store chain, said Thursday that budget-constrained shoppers were buying fewer items in stores, favoring Kroger’s cheaper store brands instead of name brands, and switching from beef to pork. “Rising inflation has [...]
By Elliott Ramos Source: NBC News In December 2018, a 31-year-old man allegedly kicked a 1-year-old boy in a Wichita, Kansas, grocery store while yelling racist slurs at the toddler’s Black family. In June 2021, a former Marine allegedly punched a Black 19-year-old who is autistic in a Chicago grocery store [...]
By Annie Probert Source: The Boston Globe Workers at a Trader Joe’s store in Western Massachusetts filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, less than a month after announcing their intent to do so in a letter to company chief executive Dan Bane. If [...]
By Joan Verdon Source: Forbes Online prices for groceries were up by a record amount, on an annual comparison, in May, while prices in other categories declined, as Americans curbed discretionary spending due to inflation, according to data from Adobe Analytics released today. Grocery prices were up 11.7% year-over-year in [...]
By Marijke Rowland Source: The Modesto Bee With its acquisition this week, Livingston’s Foster Farms has become the second Valley-born, family-owned brand to be bought by a private equity firm this spring. Foster Farms, purchased by Connecticut-based Atlas Holdings, joins Save Mart, which in late March was acquired by Los [...]