Dept. Deli

  1. Department: Food

Confused About Retail Food Channel Blurring

  Food that can be found at the intersection of cook from scratch at home and retailer prepared fresh food sold as a meal component is Grocerant niche food.  The Grocerant niche targets the time-starved consumers, not with ingredients rather with Ready-2-Eat or Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared meals and meal components that can be bundled into a […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

UFCW cites ‘echoes of Haggen’ in proposed C&S deal

The United Food and Commercial Workers union on Wednesday expressed deep concerns about the proposed acquisition of 413 Kroger- and Albertsons-owned stores by C&S Wholesale Grocers. “It looks like Haggen 2.0,” said Kim Cordova, president of UFCW Local 7 in Colorado and Wyoming, referring to Haggen’s 2015 implosion after acquiring 146 Safeway and Albertsons stores […]
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  1. Department: Food

WinCo Foods partners with Invafresh to optimize fresh operations

    [[“value”:” WinCo Foods has selected the Invafresh grocery platform to optimize the company’s fresh operations across multiple departments, starting with deli, food service and seafood divisions, to reduce shrink, improve in-stocks and deliver a fresher experience to customers. WinCo was looking for a solution to automate production planning to deliver optimal on-shelf availability […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Your Views:  Multiplier Effects

On the subject of treating employees in a way that keeps them engaged, one MNB reader wrote: I have a nephew with limited cognitive skills but is a loyal bagger at a Michigan Kroger. On his fifth year of service he received a package containing Thank You cards from store management and fellow workers as […]
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  1. Associates & Employees

Walmart Changes Starting Pay Structure for Entry-Level Store Workers

Walmart is implementing changes to its hourly starting wage structure for entry-level store workers in an effort to manage costs in a slowing job market. The alteration means that various store positions, including cashiers, personal shoppers, and stockers, will now have the same starting wages based on the store’s location. However, higher-skilled roles like deli,…
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  1. Department & Category

Grocerant Food Sales Success Should Start with Breakfast

Do you want to sell more food? Ok, then insights matter if you are selling food.  Restaurants, Convenience Stores, Service Deli’s, Bodegas all need to know how they are doing compared to others selling meals and meal components for the same dayparts according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Regular […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Grocerant Niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat is Popular

  Grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food continues to garner customer migration in every sector of retail food sales according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Restaurants, convenience stores, grocery stores, deli’s and bodega’s all continue to elevate their grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food offerings, messaging, […]
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  1. Department: Food

The Honey Baked Ham Finds Relevance in Tailgating

  Expanding relevance to your existing customer base is key too edifying a long-lasting loyal relationship and The Honey Baked Ham Company has found new relevance in tailgating according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. If you listen to your customers, you can drive both top-line sales and bottom-line profits. […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Restaurants Meet and Greet is Back

  Man is a social being. The pandemic is over and consumers want out and want to see what others are wearing, doing, and where they are going.  Is your establishment inviting? Can consumers meet others, see others, and discover a new meal, new flavor, new service style, or simply meet someone new? According to […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Target adds baby, toddler offering to Good & Gather brand

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Target has added baby and toddler products to its Good & Gather private-label food brand, the retailer said Monday. The Good & Gather Baby and Good & Gather Toddler lines feature food items created especially for those age groups. The expanded assortment […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Hy-Vee launches Healthy You wellness tour

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — In partnership with Old El Paso, a popular brand of Tex-Mex style foods, Hy-Vee announced Wednesday the launch of the Hy-Vee Healthy You Wellness Tour, which will travel across the Midwest promoting healthy eating habits and nutrition now through October. The tour is part of Hy-Vee’s commitment to fighting food […]
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  1. Department & Category

Food Retailers Embracing the Grocerant Niche

  What is for dinner? Today cooking a meal for dinner from scratch has become an anomaly.  Consumers do not want to invest the time to cook from scratch day after day.  They do want to assemble a customized dinner for the family but they want ready-2-eat and heat-N-eat meal components that can be mixed […]
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  1. Department: Food

FMI: Grocers are approaching an uncertain future proactively

ARLINGTON, Va. — Confronted with a tumultuous business environment, food retailers and their suppliers are investing in more proactive and innovative approaches to shield their businesses from the vagaries of the future. That is one of the major conclusions offered by The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2023, the annual analysis published by FMI – The […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

ALDI Fast Growing and A Fan Favorite

  With over 2213 Stores open in 38 stated, Aldi is fast becoming one of the United States favorite grocery stores according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  It’s simple Aldi has brought food discovery and low prices to an industry that for years has been stuck in the middle […]
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  1. Department & Category

Grocerant Guru Talking Food and Beverage Price, Value, Service Equilibrium

  Success does leave clues. Getting things right takes hard work and continue refinement and retooling according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Johnson first identified quantified and qualified restaurant, convenience store, and service deli opportunity within the retail foodservice space. That first formula for the price, value, service success was: Price + […]
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  1. Channel: Specialty & Other

Your Views:  Anchors Away

Got a number of emails regarding the possibility that employees at Anchor Brewing may try to buy the brand from Sapporo in an effort to keep it from being shut down, and my comment that if they do a GoFundMe page, I’d throw in a few bucks. One MNB reader wrote: Being a native San […]
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  1. Department & Category

Mars Inc Edifies Customer Relevance within Grocerant Niche

  Founded in Tacoma, WA in 1911 Mars has constantly evolved to maintain customer relevance driving top-line sales and bottom-line profits.  Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® believes that the agreement to acquire Kevin’s Natural Foods, a high-growth, nutritious meal company will be a key driver in elevating customer relevance for […]
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  1. Operations & Supply Chain

How to Get Started With Green Logistics 

E-commerce and online deliveries are at an all-time high, with sales increasing 20-fold since 2000, according to the EPA. Consumers embraced delivery for safety during the pandemic, and they’re finding that the convenience is keeping delivery just as popular today. With this demand, consumers are also paying attention to the environmental impacts of delivery on […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

With Summer in Full Swing Snacking is Top of Mind

School is out, families are on planning for vacation, the weather is good with outside activities garnering more and more time and attention.  All that means is consumers are looking of meal substitutes, meal replacements, and an excuse to eat all the fun stuff of summer.  Restaurants, service deli’s, conveniences store’s all want to fill […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Inflation Is Driving Change in Consumers Path to Purchase

  At the intersection of price increases at the grocery store, restaurants, convenience stores, even most dollar store items are now higher than a dollar; that consumers are looking for meal convenience. According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® are searching for convenient meal solutions at a price and are […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Table Service or Grab N Go Customers Want Service

  It is at the intersection of fresh food fast and customer service that full flavored food meets technology and once in a while there is simply to much technology for customers to make a connection with you brand according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Recently Brian Duncan, President […]
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  1. Channel: Convenience

Circle K Launches Free Perks Membership Program

  When it comes to driving customer frequency the question all retailers should be asking is what is the cost of customer acquisition? Now according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®, “the cost of customer acquisition in the case of Circle K appears to be ‘every sixth item free’.” The […]
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  1. Department: Food

Is Grocery Store Deli Delivery the Next Big Thing

  Restaurants and Convenience stores operators have to be worried if grocery stores deli’s start doing a good job with online ordering and delivery that their sales and customer frequency numbers just might drop.  According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® grocery store deli’s have the advantage of incremental order […]
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  1. Department: Food

Grocerant Niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat Driving Customer Migration

  Convenience tops the list when it comes to the age-old question, What’s for Dinner. Year after year study after study finds customer migration from cooking from scratch too mix and match meal component bunding according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. 1.       84.9 percent of meals eaten at home […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Hy-Vee opens reimagined store in Nebraska

GRETNA, Neb.  — Hy-Vee Inc. opened a 135,000-square-foot store — its largest to date — here on Tuesday. The new store has a totally totally reimagined layout, according to the company, which notes that the grocery store in Gretna, Neb., is accompanied by a 6,300-square-foot Aisles Online grocery delivery and pickup service and a 4,250-square-foot […]
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  1. Department: Food

Food Retailers with YoY Customer Counts Down, Sales Slipping, and Rent Sky Rocketing Need to Evolve

  Here is some of what the team at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® has heard from clients, at the National Restaurant Show, or read printed in other recent articles. The simple fact is that rent for food retailers including restaurants, C-Stores, Deli’s etc. are continuing to increase.  In many spots around the country, they […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

With Consumers Awash in Subscriptions, Brands Set Sights on Paid Membership

The subscription economy has been the subject of dire headlines recently, with terms like “subscription fatigue,” “the great unsubscribe” and even “subscription apocalypse” being bandied about. Some stats support the gloomy outlook: according to Kearney, 40% of consumers feel they have too many subscriptions, and subscription ecommerce is predicted to have its slowest growth year […]
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  1. Department & Category

Should a Restaurant Evolve into a Grocerant

  Regular readers of this blog know that as restaurants continue to evolve in foodservice the most likely space and best fit just might be the Grocerant Niche. That space is wide open it is not dominated by Restaurants, Convenience Stores, Grocery Stores, Drug Stores, or Dollar stores according to Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® […]
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