By Catherine Douglas Moran and Peyton Bigora Source: Grocery Dive As the grocery industry continues to weather economic uncertainty, retailers are pushing forward with efforts to improve their value and pricing reputations with consumers as they enter the second half of 2025. Disruption with distributors — from a major acquisition [...]
By Nikki Marin Baena Source: Progressive Grocer The grocery industry is one of the most essential in the world. It’s also extraordinarily vulnerable to disruption from immigration crackdowns. With 21% of labor in the food supply chain performed by immigrants, including almost half a million grocery store workers, mass detentions and [...]
By Catherine Douglas Moran Source: Grocery Dive After spiking during the pandemic, profit margins and same-store sales growth have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels for the grocery industry, FMI — The Food Industry Association said in a report released last week. Only 38% of surveyed food retailers said they expect [...]
By Richard Kestenbaum Source: Forbes Most grocery shopping today is done the same way your mom did it when she pushed you in the cart. And yet, there’s probably no sector of retail on the verge of more change and upheaval than grocery. Grocers view their stores as the anchor [...]
After a year of record-setting sales in the grocery industry due to the pandemic — including periods of stock-up shopping, the increase in meals at home and the explosion of safe and convenient online services and curbside pickup/delivery — retailers are anticipating those once-in-a-lifetime numbers to normalize somewhat in 2021. [...]