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Nov 12 2018 
Grocers, Get Ready For Artificial Intelligence-Based Transformation by Doug Baker, FMI
Among the six digital imperatives for a successful omnichannel strategy established by FMI and Nielsen is one that involves completeness and consistency across in-store and digital shelves, cutting costs and creating a clear assortment inventory that keeps shoppers coming back. This is particularly relevant, given that grocery retail spending on technology could vastly increase shoppers’ […]
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Nov 05 2018 
Structural Shifts In The Dairy Industry Lead To A New Era Of Price Cycles by CoBank
Dairy farms with more than 1,000 cows now comprise nearly 50 percent of the dairy industry, up from only 29 percent the decade prior, showing consolidation of dairy operations has increased significantly. These larger dairy operations have taken advantage of economies of scale to survive the price cycles the dairy industry has come to know. […]
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Oct 29 2018 
American Cheese Falling Victim To Millennial Tastes by Lydia Mulvany and Leslie Patton, Bloomberg
American cheese will never die. It has too many preservatives.
But it’s melting away. One by one, America’s food outlets are abandoning the century-old American staple, with many replacing it with fancier cheeses. Wendy’s is offering asiago. A&W’s Canada locations switched to real cheddar. McDonald’s is selling the Big Mac’s soft, orange square of American cheese […]
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Oct 22 2018 
Supervalu Inc. Stockholders Approve Merger With United Natural Foods, Inc. by SUPERVALU
MINNEAPOLIS –SUPERVALU INC. announced that at a special meeting of stockholders held today, stockholders of SUPERVALU approved the proposed acquisition of SUPERVALU by United Natural Foods, Inc. At the special meeting, approximately 80.82% of the shares of SUPERVALU common stock outstanding and entitled to vote adopted the previously announced merger agreement among SUPERVALU, UNFI, SUPERVALU […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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Aug 24 2018 
Why Grocery Stores Will Win The Meal Kit Wars
Meal prep kits were supposed to make the supermarket obsolete. The opposite has proven true. Now the companies that make the kits may need to partner with a grocery chain to survive. Early leaders like Blue Apron and Plated quickly declined as competitors and grocery stores replicated their service. And Amazon, which dabbles in meal […]
