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Andy Jassy On Grocery, Squiggly Lines, Betting Big, & Music Lessons

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has posted his annual letter to shareholders, following in a tradition begun by founder and then-CEO Jeff Bezos in 1997.  (As usual, Amazon also posts the original 1997 message after the new missive, which is one way to indicate that as much as the business has evolved and grown, its core […]
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Target Adjusts Its Grocery Strategy

The Street reports that Target “plans to make a major shift in its grocery section” – it wants to be a specialty grocer. “Target’s Chief Merchandise Officer Cara Sylvester explained the chain’s grocery strategy during its fourth-quarter earnings call,” the story says. “‘We’re focused on what’s next, strengthening Target’s unique identity when it comes to […]
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Grocery Stores Race for Relevance with Time-Starved Consumers

  Today’s consumer is not just value-driven—they are time-starved, convenience-focused, and increasingly replacing restaurant visits with retail meal solutions. This behavioral shift is forcing grocery retailers to rethink their role, moving from traditional food sellers to meal solution providers competing directly for “Share of Stomach.” Stop & Shop: Repositioning Dinner Around Convenience Stop & Shop […]
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What Goes Around Comes Around: Why “Back to Basics” Is Winning the Modern Plate

  In foodservice, trends rarely disappear. They cycle, evolve, and return with sharper relevance. In 2026, one of the most telling examples is the resurgence of traditional cooking fats such as butter, lard, and beef tallow. This shift is not driven by nostalgia alone. It is supported by clear, data-backed consumer demand, particularly among younger […]
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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Retail Malpractice (& It Ticks Me Off)

I’m used to retailers doing  a lousy job of communicating with their shoppers.  But during a recent trip to Whole Foods, I found what struck me as a particularly egregious example.  So I got out my iPhone… The post FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Retail Malpractice (& It Ticks Me Off) appeared first on MNB.
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Checkout free stores demonstrate good technology but bad value equation as Amazon and Aldi exit UK

In September of last year, we reported that Amazon was binning its ambitious Amazon Fresh experiment in the UK, just four years after the US online giant launched its first grocery store in London. It has shuttered its 19 Fresh stores, with plans to convert five of these into Whole Foods Market locations. The first […]
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Inside Amazon’s Plans For “A New Kind Of Supercenter”

Business Insider reports that “Amazon is moving deeper into Walmart’s territory with a new kind of supercenter. Internal documents show how that strategy is taking shape. “The e-commerce giant is planning to build a number of large-format stores that combine a Walmart-style supercenter with a robotics-powered warehouse, including previously unreported locations, according to internal documents […]
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You Heard It Here First: 7 Mintel Predictions Realized at Expo West 2026 

Expo West 2026 offered a clear reflection of several long-running shifts Mintel has been tracking across health, nutrition, and consumer expectations. What stood out most this year was less about flavor innovation and more about a reorientation toward how the body feels—physically, emotionally, and even metabolically. Many of the dominant themes at the show mapped […]
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Amazon’s Grocery Gambit: Tech, Fresh Food, and the Cost of Ignoring the Consumer

Amazon’s two-decade quest to dominate grocery has become one of the most expensive and publicly scrutinized case studies in modern food retail. The pattern is unmistakable: every time Amazon tries to drag grocery into its comfort zone—automation, algorithmic efficiency, and frictionless checkout—it stumbles. Every time it leans into what consumers actually want—fresh food, prepared meals, […]
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Walk-In Restaurants, Drive-Thru Dominance, Grocery Prepared Foods, and the Rise of the Meal Platform Economy

  The U.S. food industry has evolved into a nearly $4 trillion annual consumer marketplace, spanning restaurants, grocery retail, convenience stores, digital ordering platforms, and institutional foodservice. Now, wonder no longer what Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® thinks about the ‘State of the Foodservice Industry’: Despite its size and complexity, […]
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Whole Foods Market preps six London stores by June including Angel and Monument

Whole Foods Market is gearing up to open six new stores in the UK over the next few months. In March 2025, the Amazon owned natural and organic foods retailer went live with its first UK location in more than a decade with its 21,000 square foot store on King’s Road in London. The newest […]
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Portability, Platforms, and Prepared Foods: Where Foodservice Success Is Being Redefined

  The food industry in 2025–2026 is undergoing one of the largest structural shifts in decades. Consumers are eating differently, ordering differently, and discovering meals through digital platforms, convenience retail, and ready-to-eat formats. The biggest change is simple but powerful: Foodservice success today is driven by portability. Portable meals—food that can be ordered digitally, picked […]
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Why Success on Amazon Doesn’t Guarantee Success at Retail

For many modern entrepreneurs, the dream begins on Amazon. You launch a product, sales start climbing, and before long you’re sitting on a pile of five-star reviews and maybe even a coveted “Best Seller” badge. It feels like you’ve cracked the code. Naturally, the next step seems obvious:“If thousands of people are buying this online, […]
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Where Is the Food, Value, Service, Equilibrium Today?

  Are the food industry’s traditional measuring metrics still adequate? In today’s dynamic food ecosystem, Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials are simultaneously resetting the equilibrium between price, value, and service across the entire retail foodservice landscape. A quote often attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard captures the moment perfectly: “Life can only be understood backwards; […]
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The Grocery Barbell Effect: The Middle Is Shrinking — and the Food Dollars Are Moving

  The latest JLL report confirms a structural reality: the American grocery marketplace is no longer linear — it’s polarized. Traditional supermarkets are being compressed between aggressive discounters and premium fresh specialists. Foot traffic data from Placer.ai shows traditional grocers such as Kroger and Safeway captured 73.2% of grocery visits in Q1 of last year […]
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Your Views:  Chickening Out

Responding to yesterday’s piece about how Dorothy Lane Market is being specific in informing customers are why its chickens are superior – and therefore a greater value – MNB reader Jeff Gartner wrote: Dorothy Lane’s chicken is indeed the best, not only because it’s water-chilled but they also come from local Ohio farms. They’re just […]
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Amazon Proposes Second Big-Box Store for Chicago Area

Amazon has proposed developing a site in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook that would raze existing office buildings and replace them with a 225,000-square-foot Amazon store and a 150,000-square-foot Ashley Furniture flagship location, according to the Chicago Tribune. If approved, this would be the second big-box store in the Chicago area; in January 2026 […]
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Has Wegmans Lost A Step?

In Rochester, New York, WHEC-TV News has a story suggesting that “Wegmans shoppers may be seeing a drop in satisfaction, according to an annual report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. “The index measures customer satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 100. Wegmans got a score of 78 — a 6% drop from the […]
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Your Views:  “Sad For The Wee Ones”

Responding to Amazon’s decision to pretty much get out of the bricks-and-mortar grocery business by closing all its Fresh and Go stores, one MNB reader wrote: I could go on, being a Seattle native, about the good and bad of Amazon.  I have never worked for them, I have interviewed, I know many people that […]
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Amazon’s and Saks’ Retail Reset, Plus Live from the Big Show: NRF Top Voices Billy May and David J. Katz

The episode opens with a sweeping look at the biggest retail stories shaping January. Amazon dominates the headlines again, this time with the closure of all Amazon Fresh grocery and Go stores and a renewed reliance on Whole Foods and online grocery. At the same time, Amazon is laying off tens of thousands of employees, […]
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Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go Are Gone A Historical Retrospective on Amazon’s Grocery Experiments & the Road Ahead

  On January 27, 2026, Amazon confirmed what many analysts had quietly anticipated: its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store banners are being shuttered across the U.S., ending a decade of experimentation in brick-and-mortar grocery retail. According to Amazon, all 57 Amazon Fresh grocery stores and 15 Amazon Go locations are slated to close imminently […]
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The Innovation Conversation:  Assessing Amazon’s Strategic Pivot

Today, Tom Furphy and KC do an extended deep-dive on Amazon’s decision this week to close its 57 Amazon Fresh Stores and 15 Amazon Go stores, and to focus on expanding its Whole Foods footprint – some of the closing Fresh stores reportedly will be converted to the Whole Foods banner – and ramping up […]
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Amazon One – And, Apparently, Done

Amazon has notified customers who use its Amazon One palm payment authentication service that as of June 3, 2026, it no longer will be available at retail businesses – including Whole Foods, where it was part of the chain’s self-checkout systems. Here is the email that went out to users: The company promises to delete […]
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Amazon to Close All Amazon Fresh and Go Stores

Amazon.com is closing its branded brick-and-mortar grocery stores, with the company consolidating its physical strategy under the Whole Foods name, reports CNN Business. The closures, which affect its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go locations, were announced Tuesday and amount to about 70 stores across the United States. In a blog post, Amazon said while it […]
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BREAKING NEWS:  Amazon Bails Out Of Physical Stores Business, Closing Go And Fresh Stores

Amazon announced today that it is closing its 57 Amazon Fresh Stores and 15 Amazon Go stores.  With the exception of Whole Foods, which it acquired for $13.7 billion in 2017, it will now be out of the bricks-and-mortar business for the time being. The company’s food retail focus now will be on expanding its […]
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Walmart to Expand Digital Shelf Labels Chainwide

Walmart will deploy digital shelf labels (DSLs) chainwide this year, doubling the approximately 2,300 U.S. locations currently using the technology (Walmart U.S. operates more than 4,600 stores). With more than 120,000 items in a typical Walmart store, managing price changes manually requires significant associate hours. Additionally, these DSLs are equipped with LED lights that make […]
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