By Shira Ovide Source: The New York Times The conventional wisdom has been that the pandemic will spark a widespread and permanent shift in American habits from analog to digital. But what about that most basic habit — grocery shopping? Americans spend more on groceries than almost anything else, and [...]
By Michael Sainato Source: The Guardian After more than two years as essential workers on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic, grocery store workers around the US are pressuring supermarket corporations to raise wages and improve working conditions amid record profits for the industry. Ahead of the expiration of their [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News Reflecting changed consumer behavior since the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a quarter of U.S. e-grocery customers aim to step up their use of online food shopping, new research from Acosta reveals. Twenty-three percent of online grocery users polled in the October Acosta Shopper Community Survey [...]
By Pauline Bartolone Source: Capradio.org Shane Twilla says the past two years of COVID-19 was already weighing heavily on him. So the news of another surge, this time fueled by the omicron variant, just feels like another blow on the Sacramento small business owner. “It was like a gut punch,” [...]
By Nathaniel Meyersohn Source: CNN Business Sam Dancy has witnessed it all during his 30 years at supermarket chain QFC in Seattle. But the Omicron variant is pushing him to the brink. Dancy is a front-end supervisor overseeing the store's cash registers, self-checkout kiosks, customer service and liquor departments. In [...]
By Jeff Wells Source: Grocery Dive Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Tuesday that the grocer is seeing “strong” consumer engagement and “stable” consumption patterns in recent weeks amid record-high inflation. But he said those trends could change as inflation continues to rise. On [...]
By Jelisa Castrodale Source: Food & Wine The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) recently commissioned a study on the effects that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had on fast food workers throughout Los Angeles County. The study, which was conducted by the UCLA Labor Center, involved surveying [...]
By Joe Hiti Source: KDKA Some shelves are bare yet again in grocery stores across the U.S. as shoppers are leaving with items not crossed off their shopping lists amid supply chain issues. This time around, the empty shelves result from the recent surge in omicron cases and the weather [...]
By Sapna Maheshwari and Michael Corkery Source: The New York Times Long checkout lines. Closed fitting rooms. Empty shelves. Shortened store hours. Plus the dread of contracting the coronavirus and yet another season of skirmishes with customers who refuse to wear masks. A weary retail work force is experiencing the [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News Grocery sales climbed more than 8% in December and more than doubled that growth rate on a two-year stack, according to national retail sales tracker MasterCard SpendingPulse. Year over year, grocery retail sales rose 8.3% for December, Purchase, N.Y.-based MasterCard reported yesterday. Since December [...]