By Bridget Goldschidmt Source: Progressive Grocer After two years in the top spot, Amazon has ceded first place to H-E-B in the sixth annual dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index (RPI), a comprehensive nationwide study probing the approximately $1 trillion U.S. grocery market. Three years into the pandemic, H-E-B has wrested back [...]
By Mark Hamstra Source: Supermarket News Trader Joe’s has filed an objection with the National Labor Relations Board protesting the union election last week at Louisville, Ky., store. The retailer claims that the union and its supporters acted unlawfully to discourage voting in the election, according to the filing. As [...]
By Brandon Eanes Source: WVNS-TV According to information from members with the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 Union, Kroger union members have filed a class action lawsuit alleging wide ranging wage theft. On Thursday, January 19, 2023, a group of Kroger associates in the Mid-Atlantic region filed [...]
By Richard Mitchell Source: Supermarket News Whole Foods Market Chief Executive Officer Jason Buechel has unveiled what he said is a 10-year vision for leading the company into the future. The Austin-based retailer’s “Growing with Purpose” initiative, announced at the grocer’s first quarterly town hall meeting, will follow a scheme [...]
By Mark Hamstra Source: Supermarket News Instacart has reached a $5.25 million settlement with the city of San Francisco concerning payments to workers for health care and sick leave, according to an announcement by the city on Thursday. The settlement was the result of an investigation by the San Francisco [...]
By Richard Mitchell Source: Supermarket News Keeping in step with a rapidly changing marketplace will be key for retaining shoppers, according to major retail executives. In remarks at the National Retail Federation’s NRF 2023 Retail’s Big Show event in New York, John Furner, president and chief executive officer of Walmart [...]
By Sabrina Escobar Source: MarketWatch Kroger's intended merger with rival Albertsons could limit declines in its stock, even as macroeconomic conditions get tougher for the grocery segment, Morgan Stanley says. Analyst Simeon Gutman raised his rating for Kroger stock to Equal-Weight from Underweight on Tuesday and changed his price target [...]
By Megan Hageman Source: Eat This, Not That! We're all familiar with the grocery store chains which reign supreme in our modern era. But, before Walmart dominated every corner and Kroger amassed its conglomeration of close to 3,000 stores under 28 different brand names, other large players enjoyed their own [...]
By Jeff Wells Source: Grocery Dive It’s been a little over two years since Amazon launched the much-anticipated brick-and-mortar banner of its Amazon Fresh grocery brand. When news of the chain’s arrival first came out in early 2020, the rest of the industry girded itself for the arrival of a [...]
By Nico Avalle Source: Bon Appetit Starbucks employees have successfully unionized over 250 branches of the international coffee chain. They’ve inspired workers at competitor Peet’s Coffee to organize too. The first Chipotle union has won its National Labor Relations Board vote in Lansing, Michigan. Trader Joe’s workers in Hadley, Massachusetts, have organized their store, [...]