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 [...]
PYMNTS.com Special foods and overeating may be synonymous with the holidays, but this year, PYMNTS research shows, the additional cost of groceries alongside an increase in the number of consumers living on tight budgets is leading to supermarkets emerging as the season’s big winners. Where prior years have seen traditional [...]
Source: The Economist Americans have long been proud of their supermarkets. The first grocer with food in aisles, to be picked up by shoppers rather than kept behind a counter, opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916. In Bentonville, the hometown of Walmart in north-west Arkansas, Americans flock to a bombastic [...]
By Elliott Ramos Source: NBC News In December 2018, a 31-year-old man allegedly kicked a 1-year-old boy in a Wichita, Kansas, grocery store while yelling racist slurs at the toddler’s Black family. In June 2021, a former Marine allegedly punched a Black 19-year-old who is autistic in a Chicago grocery store [...]
By Aaron Mak Source: Slate It’s starting to feel like the beginning of the pandemic again, in more ways than one. The insanely infectious omicron variant is renewing old debates about school closures. Lines for tests are stretching for blocks. The Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert, the NBA’s first public COVID-19 [...]
By Michael Browne Source: Supermarket News Even with last year’s center store sales explosion attributed to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers are still optimistic about the category’s continued growth in 2021. Three-quarters of grocery retailers surveyed for the Supermarket News Center Store Trends Report say they expect unit [...]
By Priya Krishna Source: The New York Times Chitra Agrawal, the founder of Brooklyn Delhi, has spent many hours thinking about where in the grocery store her Indian condiments might sell the best. Positioning her premade sauces alongside pasta sauce, she imagined, might encourage spaghetti lovers to make Indian food. [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News Grocery retailers could be in for another wave of consumer stockpiling as COVID-19 infection rates climb nationwide due to the rapid spread of the Delta variant, new research from Inmar Intelligence shows. Of 1,000 U.S. adults surveyed, 69.4% said they’re considering replenishing a current [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News U.S. grocery shoppers are gradually returning to in-store purchases as more Americans receive COVID-19 vaccines, a new survey from Inmar Intelligence finds. Once fully vaccinated, 27% of consumers said they plan to do most of their grocery shopping at stores, while 38% will do [...]