Dept. Bakery

Articles on bakery

  1. Shopper & Customer
Vypr, the product intelligence platform, has asked consumers how they’ll celebrate Easter this year. 61% of the nationally representative sample from the  65,000 Vypr community polled said they’d participate in Easter and Easter-related activities. 82% of consumers said they’d spend the traditional long weekend with family, with approximately 20% spending it with friends. A third […]
  1. Holiday & Events
Lir Chocolates is expanding its Baileys Chocolate range with the introduction of a new Easter egg. The new Egg includes a milk chocolate shell egg with a hint of the Baileys Irish cream flavour and eight of the original Baileys Chocolate Truffles. The brand-new Baileys Chocolate Original Easter Egg taps into the luxury egg market […]
  1. Department: Food
  Consumers want grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food with full flavor, fresh, and fast according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Johnson stated, “In every sector of retail foodservice it is grocerant Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat that consumers are migrating too according to Nielsenand the team at Foodservice […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Most consumers aren’t just eating to live, and, especially with snacks, hunger will not always be driving the occasion. Brands have an opportunity, both with messaging and product development, to reimagine what a snack is and what snacking can mean.  Provide emotional support snacks Consumers are most likely to choose snacks to meet emotional needs, […]
  1. Department & Category
Today I am reporting in from the first day of the Western Michigan University Food Marketing & Supply Chain Conference, when Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran spelled out the reasons he believes the Kroger-Albertsons deal makes sense, why “growth is oxygen” for the best organizations, and the importance of eliminating friction from what he called “mindless […]
  1. Channel: Restaurants
  Are you a Gen Z or Millennial Gamer? If you are KFC is looking for you, and has a gift.  That gift is a early beta access to play Diablo IV.  Now According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® one again the one-time leader within the grocerant niche is […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
According to FoodIndustry.com, the U.S. food market is worth $1.5 trillion annually, or roughly 4 percent of the domestic gross product. $800 billion of that revenue is from supermarkets and food stores. Compare this to the U.S. apparel market, which is estimated to be worth $318 billion (Statistica). And while the retail industry often focuses […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
[[“value”:” Share: The drive-thru plays a crucial role in QSR operations and has only seemed to grow in popularity in recent years. Throughout the pandemic, drive-thru operations drastically increased in demand as consumers desperately needed an escape from the woes and boredom of quarantine. In fact, the QSR drive-thru was one of the few avenues […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
The Washington Post reports that for the third year in a row, the Girl Scouts are facing a problem with their annual cookie season. “Blame the coronavirus pandemic for the wildly vacillating supply and demand over the past two years: a surplus of unsold cookies in 2021 and supply chain issues in 2022,” the Post […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Once again, a restaurant chain believes it has it’s pulse on the consumer and is extending a customer focused family meal for a set price.  Is your company looking a customer ahead. Do you understand just how the price, value service equilibrium is evolving? Are you going to pay $59.95 for your family dinner tonight?  […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Swizzels is urging retailers to stock up on Marvellous Mallows as the mallow category continues to grow. By maintaining a £1 price point, Swizzels aims to ensure its Drumstick-flavoured mallows remain a fast-moving and profitable product for retailers. Marshmallows continue to be a popular choice among consumers, with the category now having an estimated worth […]
  1. Department: Food
Baked by Rich’s has announced its range of cookies, created in partnership with Nestlé Professional, is now available to convenience retailers in a simple,sales-driving, thaw and serve concept. Designed to allow stores without bakery facilities to offer fresh, coffee-shop quality cookies, the thaw and serve range is delivered frozen. Staff simply need to let the […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
The digital surge during COVID-19 accelerated the introduction of direct-to-consumer CPG brands selling online, but three interlocking trends could hobble their continued growth. One is simple competition: more brands and more products competing for consumer wallet and mind share. The second is inflation, which is causing consumers to adjust their purchasing patterns. In the U.S. […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
AVENTURA, Fla. – The confectionery category posted dollar sales in 2022 that increased 11.1% compared with 2021 sales and 22.1% compared with 2019 sales, according to the fourth annual State of Treating report published by the National Confectioners Association. The total confectionery category reached $42.6 billion in sales, driven by inflation that reached a 40-year […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Consumers turn to chocolate and candy as an affordable treat Aventura, Florida – In 2022, confectionery category dollar sales grew 11.1% over 2021, and 22.1% over 2019 as consumers view chocolate and candy as a fun part of life (81%) and as an affordable treat (74%) according to the fourth annual State of Treating report […]
  1. Merchandising
  Chain restaurants have catered to consumers Lenten increase in fish consumption for years with “limited time offers” (LTO’s).  According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® chain restaurants have set a standard for Lenten LTO’s by offering fish options while eating out. This year convenience store retailers are offering a […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Consumers are set to ramp up their confectionery gifting spend this spring, with shoppers more likely to splash the cash on Easter, the latest Ferrero UK research shows. It also suggests that, while gifting revenues are likely to rise, self-treating occasions could dip as shoppers prepare to watch their spending in the months ahead. Almost […]
  1. Holiday & Events
Annual outrage at the fact that Easter eggs and hot cross buns have already gone on sale in food stores by the end of December seems to be a staple of today’s media landscape. But the reality is that ‘self-treat’ products such as Cadbury Creme Egg have always gone on sale early, marking the first […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
Yesterday I had a story in MNB that took note of a Fox News report that the Attorneys General of 19 states “warned major retailers against the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) attempt to let pharmacies mail out the abortion pill, and said doing so would subject to legal action from the states.” At issue […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
During the early 2000s, while the retail industry was getting battered by e-commerce, grocery stores were seemingly safe. Twenty years — and a pandemic — later, much has changed; e-commerce and delivery services have transformed grocery retail. Today, when consumers visit a store, they enter with much higher expectations. A convenient and smooth, seamless shopping […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
The past few years have thrust digital shopping into the spotlight and it’s a trend that’s here to stay. The 2022 holiday season was no different, as shoppers continued to purchase online goods and gift cards for their loved ones, providing valuable insights on the emerging ways consumers are approaching gifting across channels. Retailers looking […]
  1. Channel: Delivery
Aldi has entered a partnership with DoorDash to offer on-demand grocery delivery from nearly all 2,278Aldi locations across 38 states. Customers can shop for fresh produce, meat, seafood, dairy, bread, household essentials and even home goods through the ALDI Finds collection. Shoppers can place their orders through the DoorDash app or website. All participating Aldi […]
  1. Channel: Delivery
DoorDash Partners with ALDI To Expand On-Demand Grocery Delivery Propelling DoorDash’s growth in grocery forward, the new partnership brings same-day delivery to more than 2,100 ALDI locations nationwide SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 23, 2023 – DoorDash (NYSE: DASH), the local commerce platform, and ALDI, the grocery price leader for six years running*, today announced […]
  1. Department: Food
  The consumer is dynamic not static.  At the intersection of consumer migration to new avenues of distribution, and the wiliness of chain restaurants to move with consumers fast enough, is year over year customer counts.  It’s at the intersection that Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®, asks are you as […]
  1. Media & Marketing
Audra Vogler to be Celebrated at the State of the Industry Conference WASHINGTON – The National Confectioners Association today announced Audra Vogler, CEO of Hoffmann Vogler, as the recipient of the 2023 Woman of Influence Award. Created by NCA’s Women’s Leadership Group, the award honors a woman who has demonstrated superior leadership and industry mentorship and […]
  1. CPG: Food
Mondelēz International is introducing a unique campaign this month, giving consumers the chance to win cash prizes for themselves and a matching cash prize to help their local independent retailer. “The Big Win-Win” on-and off-pack promotion is running from the end of February to mid-May and invites consumers to nominate their local corner shop for […]

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Supermarket giant Tesco came under fire following the announcement that it will be reducing the value of Clubcard reward vouchers from June 2023. The reduction will come into force after… The post Tesco infuriates shoppers as it slashes Clubcard points value appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The Globe – Charged.
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AI powered shopping platform aisle 3 has completed the sale of its Google Comparison Shopping Site (CSS) service to Product Hero. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, other than it being all cash. The sale consolidates market share for CSS service provider Product Hero, which works with the likes of Rituals and Ikea. […]
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Get ready because the empty truck cabs in motion are coming. Gatik, which is involved in autonomous middle-mile logistics, has announced a multi-year commercial collaboration to transport customer orders within Kroger’s Dallas distribution network. The operations will launch in a few weeks. Under the collaboration, Gatik’s medium-duty autonomous box trucks will transport fresh, customer-favorite products from […]
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Albertsons yesterday unveiled what it said was “the redesign of its Open Nature brand as the company strives to become the brand of choice for those health-conscious shoppers seeking a more balanced lifestyle. Open Nature, which is part of Albertsons Cos. Own Brands portfolio, provides shoppers with tasty foods made with thoughtfully chosen ingredients that […]

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