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Scaling Up Successfully: 6 Key Insights from Pholicious Co-Founder Joseph Trousdale

The journey of a startup brand is rarely a straight line, but few stories showcase the power of persistence, flexibility, and proactive growth quite like that of Pholicious. When I first interviewed Co-Founder Joseph Trousdale in 2023, his brand was just starting his growth journey, having received a Golden Ticket at Walmart’s Open Call and […]
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Whole Foods Expands Surplus Food ‘Surprise Bag’ Categories

Whole Foods Market has added seven new categories to its “Surprise Bag” offerings of surplus food in the Too Good To Go app, selling at approximately one-third the retail price. They’re available at more than 530 Whole Foods Market stores across the country to the app’s 17 million+ users, who can now choose Surprise Bags […]
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Retailers Donate Funds and Food as SNAP Cutoff Deadline Looms

With more than 40 million Americans facing a Nov. 1 cutoff of food aid delivered via SNAP [the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] due to the ongoing government shutdown, food banks will be stretched even thinner than usual, according to the New York Times. Hunger is a reality in the U.S.: according to Feeding America, 14.3% […]
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The Transparent Goals of The “Americans For Ingredient Transparency” 

Fox News reports on the launching of a “new conservative group working to untangle state laws concerning food and personal care ingredients by setting a national standard for ingredient transparency.”  The name:  Americans for Ingredient Transparency. According to the story, the nonprofit “specifically aims to work with Congress and the Trump administration to incorporate Generally […]
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Nicobi Foods is Proof That Success Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity

When Obi Linton gears up to submit products to a retailer via RangeMe, the former detective in him comes out. He investigates every aspect of that retailer: Its goals, values, the buyers in his category. He’ll purchase data to see what’s selling in the markets the retailer serves and how competitive products are moving.  Armed […]
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Cognitive Dissonance In the City-Owned-Grocery-Store-Delusion Space

The Atlantic  has an excellent piece in which it points out some basic inconsistencies in the proposals being put forth by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani – a self-described Democratic socialist – to open “five city-owned stores that will be ‘focused on keeping prices low’ rather than making a profit – what he […]
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Price Checks:  Pricing Realities At Amazon, Walmart, & Market Basket

The Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal have revealing stories this morning about grocery pricing. In the context of the management contretemps taking place at regional grocer Market Basket, which claims to give customers “more for your dollar,” the Globe decided to bring “the same 10-item shopping list to Market Basket, as well as Wegmans, […]
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From Tariffs To Food Dyes To Saluting The Competition:  Stew’s Views

I know that I’ve gone to this well before, but Stew Leonard’s continues to teach a master class in how to create connections with shoppers. In his latest shopper email, “Around The Store With Stew,” Stew Leonard Jr. addresses a number of issues that are on the minds of shoppers.  Here are the key points: […]
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eCommerce Fulfillment Strategy with Ahold Delhaize USA’s Daniël van Gool

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Daniël van Gool, VP of Fulfillment Strategies & Solutions at Ahold Delhaize USA. Find Daniel on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dvangool/Find AD USA on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ahold-delhaize-usa/Find AD USA online at: https://www.adusa.com/ Daniël answers these questions: You are an OG of ecommerce, going back as far as early […]
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Your Views:  Is. A. Puzzlement.

Here on MNB I’ve been fairly critical of some of the decision-making at Albertsons, though I didn’t really have any comment on this week’s announcement that it is expanding its business eCommerce platform. One MNB reader, however, saw something I didn’t see: This is symptomatic of a larger problem at Albertsons.  Who’s running the show?  […]
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Walmart adding RFID tech to fresh categories

​Dive Brief The retailer worked with Avery Dennison on developing the solution in an effort to minimize food waste and improve inventory management. Published Oct. 23, 2025 Workers can better track inventory and determine when to rotate or mark down products with RFID technology, according to Walmart. Courtesy of Walmart
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‘A cultural shift’: Dollar Tree’s CEO on tech, AI adoption

At Dollar Tree’s investor day this month, the discount retailer gave a peek into how it’s catching up with the times — and AI is playing a key role. If one thing is certain, CEO Mike Creedon told investors, it’s that Dollar Tree must evolve. “And we are, from a single price point model to […]
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New Amazon smart delivery glasses help drivers navigate routes and complete deliveries

Amazon has unveiled new smart glasses designed to assist drivers in navigating their routes and completing deliveries. The AI powered technology provides hands free navigation, package scanning, and hazard detection directly in drivers’ field of view, eliminating the need to look down at their smartphones while making deliveries. The glasses feature computer vision technology that […]
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