Oct 15 2018 Food Retail Study Determines Transparency Yields Greater Brand Loyalty by Food Marketing Institute
ARLINGTON, VA/CHICAGO – A new report released today from Label Insight and Food Marketing Institute (FMI) revealed that grocery shoppers exhibit loyalty to those products that create deeper relationships through information exchange. The Transparency Imperative report found that shoppers increasingly demand transparency and a closer connection to their food, so much so that 75 percent […]
Oct 08 2018 Total Digital Maturation In Online Grocery Shopping Is Only Five To Seven Years Away by Doug Baker, FMI
The “acceleration path” for online book and music sales was 15 years. That’s how long it took to move from 20 percent of consumers shopping online to what experts consider maturation, 70 percent.
After that, things sped up. The next industry to go online, banking, only took 10 years to reach that point.
Recent research prepared for […]
Oct 01 2018 Gov. Scott: Publix To Create 700 New Jobs By Expanding Lakeland Corporate Office by Publix Super Markets
LAKELAND, Fla.– Governor Rick Scott and Publix CEO & President Todd Jones announced today that Publix will expand its headquarters in Lakeland and add 700 additional jobs by the end of 2027. Since construction on Publix’s current corporate office was announced in 2001, Publix has entered three additional states, more than doubled its annual sales, […]
Sep 24 2018 Emerging Segment Of Grocery Shoppers Focus On Environmental Impacts Of Packaging by Evergreen Packaging®
MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Evergreen Packaging®, a global leader in fiber-based packaging solutions, today released a report based on data from the annual EcoFocus Trend Study, which forecasts key trends that will shape the U.S. food and beverage industries in the year ahead. Now in its ninth year, the EcoFocus Trend Study examines how consumer attitudes, actions, […]
Sep 17 2018 Grocery stores aren’t dead, but they need help with real-time data by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Although that may be good news for brick-and-mortar supermarkets, most food manufacturers and retailers have to perform back flips for in-store grocery data. For years, Michael Sloan, the co-founder and CEO of New York City soft serve fruit shop Chloe’s Fruit had to do it manually. He and his team would contact grocery stores to […]