By Brandon Gomez Source: CNBC The U.S. grocery slowdown is becoming harder to ignore. Shoppers are buying fewer items than a year ago, and grocery sales are declining as weakening unit sales are now outweighing rising prices. That is according to new analysis from Bain & Company using NielsenIQ grocery [...]
By Peyton Bigora Source: Grocery Dive The Raley’s Companies said these leadership changes aim to enhance the customer experience, operations and merchandising strategy across its banners. Barsotti’s expanded responsibilities come just seven months after she joined The Raley’s Companies as chief communications officer, per her LinkedIn profile. Now, in addition [...]
By John Ross Ferrara Source: KTLA Grocery prices in California could soar even higher as preliminary fees tied to Senate Bill 54 are scheduled to go into effect next month. Passed in 2022, the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act aims to reduce single-use plastics and ensure all [...]
By Jeff Wells Source: Grocery Dive At the end of last year, Albertsons launched an agentic shopping assistant that can take shoppers from a vague query — “I’m in the mood for something spicy” — to an online basket full of products along with the recipes they need to prepare everything. [...]
By Amaya Nichole Source: Inc. Nearly two years after its $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons collapsed in court, Kroger is attempting to buy another grocery chain. The grocery giant announced this week a definitive agreement to acquire Giant Eagle, a family-owned grocery and pharmacy chain with approximately $9 billion in [...]
Source: UFCW Today, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union, UFCW Local Unions across New Jersey, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), and RWDSU Local 108 are celebrating the passage of the Fair Price Protection Act (A4085/S3612) through the New Jersey State Legislature, which would ban surveillance pricing and [...]
By Lael Brainard and Rohit Chopra Source: The New York Times Ms. Brainard leads the Kitchen Table Project. Mr. Chopra is the incoming secretary of California’s Business and Consumer Services Agency. From a distance, the American economy might appear to be performing well. Growth is solid, unemployment remains near historic [...]
By Sam Silverstein Source: Grocery Dive When he addressed investors in March barely a month after becoming Kroger’s CEO, Greg Foran said he intended to make improving the shopper experience a top order of business for the company — but pointed out that he had only had a chance to [...]
By Alice Gibbs Source: Newsweek Americans are likely to see food prices rise again this year—and while inflation, conflict and supply chains all play a role, experts say another factor is playing an increasing role: extreme weather. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts that overall food prices will rise [...]
Source: Supermarket News The Raley’s Companies has launched an in-store retail media network with Grocery TV across 208 stores in California, Nevada and Arizona, the company said on Wednesday. The network will appear in Raley’s, Bel Air, Nob Hill, Bashas’ Food City and AJ’s Fine Foods stores through in-store screens [...]