By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News Albertsons Cos. has hit the 6 million mark in COVID-19 shots administered by its pharmacies and rolled out new tools to help people get tested and vaccinated, including a digital record, rapid antigen self-tests and a vaccine map. The new coronavirus vaccine milestone comes [...]
By: Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News With the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinations readily available, more grocery shoppers feel comfortable returning to stores, a new survey by The Feedback Group showed. Over four times as many consumers plan to shop more often in a grocery store this year [...]
By Eric Karlson Source: Supermarket News During COVID, the fear of going out in public significantly changed how people shopped in 2020. What happens now to grocery shopping needs as the pandemic fades and people are feeling more comfortable in public? Based on our Retail Preference Index study from 2017 [...]
By Ben Casselman Source: The New York Times When Kroger customers in Cincinnati shop online these days, their groceries may be picked out not by a worker in their local supermarket but by a robot in a nearby warehouse. Gamers at Dave & Buster’s in Dallas who want pretzel dogs [...]
By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times The Kroger supermarket in Yorktown, Va., is in a county where mask wearing can be casual at best. Yet for months, the store urged patrons to cover their noses and mouths, and almost everyone complied. “People don’t like to wear masks here,” [...]
By Jane Black Source: The New York Times By last summer, Nick Wiseman, a founder of Little Sesame, a small chain of hummus shops in Washington, D.C., had made all the expected “pivots” to save his business. He’d offered delivery, meal kits and pantry items, and worked with local nonprofits [...]
By Michael Boyle Source: Bloomberg Supermarket prices are rising, and restaurants are reopening. But Americans keep stocking up on groceries. Grocery sales accelerated in late May and early June, according to Nielsen data cited in a Morgan Stanley note. That’s despite restaurant revenue growth turning positive in April for the [...]
By Gabriela Barkho Source: Modern Retail Last month, the CDC announced the loosening of its mask guidance, saying people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus don’t need to wear a mask indoors unless local laws and regulations demanded it. It’s led to increasing confusion — and more difficult retail [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News Grocery retailers will hold an edge in food spending market share over the foodservice sector as the nation heads into the post-pandemic period, according to FMI-The Food Industry Association’s annual U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends study. At the same time, within grocery retail, mass merchants have [...]
By Lauren Bailey Source: Benefits Canada Canadians’ health priorities are shifting as the coronavirus pandemic drags on, as claims for medications to treat mental-health conditions continued to rise in 2020, along with claims for specialty drugs designed to treat rarer, yet increasingly chronic diseases, according to Telus Health’s annual drug [...]