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Grocerant Niche Holiday Meal Deals Check them Out

  Regular readers of this blog know that Winsight grocery magazine is being rolled into Supermarket News.  Last week Russell Redman wrote another very good article for about grocery stores that are offering mix and match bundled grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat meal deals that save the consumer both time and money.  According to Steven […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Today in Retail Highlights: UK Supermarkets

In this new blog series, Mintel reviews the latest retailer marketing and innovations, including new store openings, online developments, new concept or category launches. For this month’s highlight, our retail experts weigh in on three exciting developments in UK supermarkets. Tesco teams up with March Muses in new partnership This is a really positive move […]
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  1. Department: Food

Grocerant Niche Meals and Meal Components

  Grocerant Niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food continues to drive top-line sales and bottom-line profits.  The fact is cooking and cleaning the kitchen are not high on most peoples to do list according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Here are some 2023 numbers from our team: Recent […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat Bundled Meal options to Drive Sales

  Food industry insights are an important way for restaurants, service delis, and convenience stores to focus on the consumer with a greater degree of relevance.  Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® insist that ‘outside eyes drive inside profits.  While Foodservice Solutions® team conducts it own proprietary grocerant niche research. It […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery - Natural

The Fresh Market Holiday Meals for Two is a Winner

  Wondering what to eat tonight?  You are not alone according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® consumers have a hard time deciding simply what’s for dinner tonight.  Let’s look at some of the numbers: Recent Grocerant ScoreCards found 82.3% of consumers don’t know what’s for dinner at Noon, and […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

Circana forecasts modest food, beverage volume growth in 2024

CHICAGO — The market researcher Circana is forecasting that after three years of food and beverage volume sales declines, the market will see modest growth in 2024. Specific categories expected to benefit the most include beverages and the deli. A factor likely driving beverage growth will be an increase in health-conscious consumers seeking more protein […]
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  1. Department: Food

Take a look inside: Gelson’s 1st store in West Los Angeles

    [[“value”:” The new store has a wine and sushi/tapas bar, as well as an outdoor patio Southern California-based Gelson’s has opened its 28th full-service store in West Los Angeles. The store serves as the anchor of West Edge, a mixed-use residential/office/retail development currently under construction. Designed by the award-winning firm Shook Kelley, […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Do you want to Grow Share of Stomach

  The fact is 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 readers of this blog remember […]
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  1. Department: Food

Take a look inside a newly renovated H E B store in Burnet, Texas

    [[“value”:” The renovation includes upgraded departments and larger product assortment H‑E‑B has reopened a 43,000-square-foot remodeled store in Burnet, Texas.  The remodel includes renovations, upgrades, and an enhanced design to the store’s exterior, plus interior updates with new finishes, signage, lighting, equipment, and fixtures. In addition to updating some of the […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

Farm Stores Drive-Thru Convenience Proves Popular

  The old adage ‘time is money’ once again is the foundation block help drive growth and success and Farm Stores.  Now according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® “Farm Stores is one of the few convenience stores focusing on harassing consumers overwhelming adoption of a drive-thru.  That should prove […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Publix to host hiring events for upcoming Louisville location

    [[“value”:” Publix Super Markets is on track to open its first Louisville store this year, and the grocery chain is hosting multiple in-person hiring events for all positions at the store. The grocer has yet to say when its first Kentucky store will open, but the retailer is hosting hiring events on Thursday […]
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  1. Department: Food

The Service Deli Selling Grocerant Meals and Meal Components Might Save the Grocery Sector

  Grocery stores are having a bad time stocking the shelves with products legacy food manufactures want them to sell.  Grocery stores the ilk of Kroger and Publix like the slotting fees legacy food manufactures pay.  In fact, according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® “slotting fees” are the as […]
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  1. Department: Food

The Giant Co. names new CFO, SVP of operations

    [[“value”:” The Giant Company announced today that it has named Rebecca Lupfer chief financial officer and Dave Lessard senior vice president of operations, customer experience, and perishable distribution. Both will report directly to The Giant Company’s president, John Ruane. Both appointments are effective Monday, Oct. 16.  In her new role, Lupfer will lead the finance, […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

Gen Z and Millennials Mirror Memories

  Millennials are growing up and having children of their own.  Without any doubt Millennials have adopted the habits of their parents when it comes to deciding ‘What’s for Dinner’. They are ordering grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food simply because they liked it when their parents bought it for them according to Steven […]
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  1. Department: Food

Schnucks to launch 2nd ‘fresh’ smaller concept store

    [[“value”:” Schnucks Markets Inc. is getting ready to unveil a second “fresh” store in Oak Grove Village, Mo. The location will offer fresh food options in a smaller format than regular Schnucks stores. The idea is to provide smaller communities with a full-scale grocery store without a large footprint. The ribbon cutting will […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Village Super Market posts Q4 sales, profit growth

    [[“value”:” Village Super Market on Wednesday said same-store sales were up 3.2% for the fiscal fourth quarter and 3.5% for the full fiscal year, driven mostly by inflation. The sales gains helped fuel profit growth in the fourth quarter and year, which ended July 29. Quarterly net income rose 21%, to $15.3 million, […]
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  1. Channel: MealKit

Blue Apron Acquired by Marc Lore’s Wonder Group for $103 Million

Meal kit provider Blue Apron has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Wonder Group, the food delivery and takeout company founded by entrepreneur Marc Lore. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Blue Apron stockholders will receive $13 in cash per share of Class A common stock through a tender offer, an […]
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  1. Channel: MealKit

Blue Apron Acquired by Marc Lore’s Wonder Group for $103 Million

Meal kit provider Blue Apron has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Wonder Group, the food delivery and takeout company founded by entrepreneur Marc Lore. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Blue Apron stockholders will receive $13 in cash per share of Class A common stock through a tender offer, an […]
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  1. Department: Food

Meal Kits Elevate Family Meal Time

Meal kits invite family interactive participation from the very start as consumers choose what meal to order, and that elevates the meal kit from the very beginning.  Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru®, Steven Johnson based in Tacoma, WA stated “Meal Kits are training wheels for both Gen Z and Millennials”.  However, meal kits are much more […]
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  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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