September 28, 2024 Grocery stores that donate expiring food make higher profits Researchers found that food donations correspond to a 33% increase in profit margin. BY The Conversation All major supermarkets and retailers that sell groceries, such as Kroger, Walmart, and Costco, give large amounts of food to food banks and pantries. In 2022, retailers donated close … Continue reading Grocery stores that donate expiring food make higher profits
August 15, 2024 Harris plans to ban grocery price gouging as inflation cools Year-over-year inflation has reached its lowest level in more than three years, but food prices are 21% above where they were three years ago. BY Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris is zeroing in on high food prices as her campaign previews an … Continue reading Harris plans to ban grocery price gouging as inflation cools
April 30, 2024 Why Walmart launched a premium grocery label, with fancy branding to match The packaging for Walmart’s Bettergoods line looks like something you might find in Target. That’s intentional. BY Hunter Schwarz Walmart’s new private label brand, Bettergoods, doesn’t look like what you might expect a Walmart private-label brand to look like. And that’s … Continue reading Why Walmart launched a premium grocery label, with fancy branding to match
Amazon makes Fresh grocery deliveries and pickups available to everyone Prime Members will still get exclusive deals in-store and online. Sarah Fielding Thu, Nov 9, 2023 Adam Davy – PA Images via Getty Images Amazon is expanding its grocery services to the masses — well, at least to everyone who has an account with them. … Continue reading Amazon makes Fresh grocery deliveries and pickups available to everyone
By Michael Grothaus March 22, 2023 Many of us got our first exposure to Magnolia Bakery when Carrie Bradshaw bit into one of its cupcakes on the iconic show Sex and the City. Since then, the bakery—first opened in 1996—has become an icon in itself, and an institution in New York City’s West Village. … Continue reading Magnolia Bakery is entering grocery stores for the first time. And it’s coming to Amazon, too
Text a pic of your receipt to Aisle and get Venmo’d cash rewards. Chris Wood on August 4, 2021 A new cash-back rewards platform called Aisle is debuting in the U.S. this week, following a soft roll-out in April. It allows grocery shoppers to take a picture of their grocery receipt and text it for … Continue reading Creative discounts solution for grocery brands
Report: Pandemic Upended Grocery Shopping Patterns by Richard Whitman , Columnist, August 2, 2021 Retail marketing specialist 84.51° is out with some new research that concludes a new kind of grocery shopper has emerged in the wake of last year’s COVID-19 disruption: the hybrid shopper. The Kroger subsidiary did the research to help food marketers … Continue reading Report: Pandemic Upended Grocery Shopping Patterns
Search Terms Reflect A Change In Grocery Shelves by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 18, 2018 Finding keywords that speak to consumer preferences isn’t easy. So if product categories shelved in center-store aisles have become more important, per a new Catalina study, then using product segment words to promote the items in paid search … Continue reading Search Terms Reflect A Change In Grocery Shelves
