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  1. Data & Insights

Eating for Health: A Historical Look at How America Shops, Eats, and Redefines Food Convenience

  For more than a century, “eating for health” has evolved from a luxury of the elite to a mainstream expectation shaped by consumer demand, technology, and retail innovation. From the first self-service supermarkets in the 1930s to today’s frictionless, omnichannel food ecosystem, one constant has persisted: shoppers want food that is better for them, […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Kroger’s Bulk Blind Spot: Why Overpricing and Outdated Thinking Are Driving Shoppers Away

  Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® has plenty of opinions, this article is one of them!  When 62% of U.S. households are one or two people, selling 10 pounds of pork chops is a business model built for yesterday. Fast food and modern grocers are eating Kroger’s lunch—literally. For decades, […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

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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  1. Channel: Grocery

Thanksgiving VALUE Served Hot: How Hy-Vee’s $30 Meal Deal Embodies the Grocerant Advantage

  This Thanksgiving, VALUE is the ultimate side dish consumers crave, and Hy-Vee is serving it up hot according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. As food inflation and time scarcity reshape the American dinner table, Hy-Vee’s $30 Thanksgiving Meal Deal exemplifies how the Grocerant Model — blending restaurant quality […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

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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  1. Merchandising

Morrisons to Deploy ESLs Across Nearly 500 UK Supermarkets

Beginning early next year, Morrisons will roll out 10.8 million smart electronic shelf labels (ESLs) across its 497 stores, eliminating traditional paper labels and automating the repetitive manual tasks of repricing and relabeling products. The technology from VusionGroup will be integrated with Morrisons’ digital shelf-edge cameras to help efficiently guide associates to product gaps, speeding […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Is Albertsons Like A&P

  Albertsons and Safeway were once iconic industry leaders—much like A&P (The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) in its heyday. Each dominated their markets for decades but eventually became brands stuck in the middle—caught between discount grocers on one end and experiential, fresh-food-driven competitors on the other. According to Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® Steven […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

C-Store Delivery Platform Vroom Adopts Instacart’s Retail Media Solution

Vroom Delivery, an ecommerce platform serving 3,500 convenience stores nationwide, has partnered with Instacart to deploy its Carrot Ads retail media technology. The new agreement expands Vroom’s efforts to help SMB convenience retailers tap into advertising demand, including the 7,500 brand advertisers participating in the Instacart Ads ecosystem. “We’re building Carrot Ads to be the […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

Cleanliness: The Critical Driver of Foodservice Growth in Restaurants, C-Stores, Grocery Service Delis, and Retail Foodservice

  In today’s hyper-competitive foodservice landscape, one factor stands out as the cornerstone of trust, customer loyalty, and long-term revenue: cleanliness according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Whether it’s a national restaurant chain, a local deli counter, a bustling C-store kitchen, or a high-traffic grocery deli, visible hygiene standards […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The Price-Value-Service Equilibrium: The Strategic Framework Driving Foodservice Growth

  The Price-Value-Service Equilibrium is a proprietary, data-informed framework pioneered by Steven Johnson, the Grocerant Guru®, of Tacoma, WA-based Foodservice Solutions®. Designed to align with fast-changing consumer expectations, this dynamic formula equips foodservice brands with the tools to optimize pricing, product quality, convenience, and experiential engagement—all critical levers in today’s hyper-competitive food retail landscape. Johnson’s […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Building Shopper Loyalty in an Omnichannel World with Hy-Vee CMO Kathryn Mazza

Send us a text The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Kathryn Mazza, CMO & President of Red Media at Hy-Vee, the midwest retailer. She leads the growth of the platform. Prior to, she was at Dick’s Sporting Goods. This was a conversation ranging from customer loyalty building, retail media, data measurement and […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Hy-Vee RMN Deploys Carrot Ads Solution; Instacart Extends Ad Placements to Smart Carts

The 570-store Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee will expand its partnership with Instacart by adopting the platform’s Carrot Ads solution. This new integration will give Hy-Vee RedMedia access both to Instacart’s ad technology and its CPG advertising ecosystem, which delivers advertiser demand from more than 7,000 brands. All those brands will also now have access to […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

3 Ways Brands are Harnessing the Value of Marketplaces

Omnichannel is the new reality for brands and retailers of all sizes and product types. Results from Retail TouchPoints’ annual Omnichannel & Fulfillment Survey show that most respondents conduct business through an average of three different channels — and for 35% of them, marketplaces are critical to building brand awareness and driving business growth. In […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Fresh Market Aims to Improve Inventory Management with New Tech, Including Electronic Shelf Labels

The Fresh Market will deploy solutions from VusionGroup across all 166 grocery stores in its fleet next year, adding electronic shelf labels (ESLs), improved inventory management technology and analytics designed to better support in-store merchandising decisions, timing of out-of-stocks and prioritizing waste reduction. The retailer’s partnership with VusionGroup will include a suite of Vusion 360 […]
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  1. Department: Food

Has Amazon Finally Cracked the Code for Grocery Retailing?

In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside several other shuttered chains: Modell’s, Subway (although somehow the Kohl’s has survived). However, one month ago the lights turned back on — with bright green flag chains strung across the parking lot and […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash adds HSA and FSA payment capability

    [[“value”:” DoorDash has enabled payment options for both HSA (Health Savings Account) and FSA (Flexible Spending Accounts) to pay for eligible items at select merchants on the delivery company’s app.  Consumers can use their HSA and FSA funds to pay for over 30,000 HSA/FSA-eligible products on DoorDash including select over-the-counter (OTC) medicine, COVID-19 […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Hy-Vee leans into micro fulfillment centers to boost efficiencies

    [[“value”:” Takeoff Technologies, the eGrocery technology that helps grocers online, announced its partnership with Hy-Vee, Inc., an employee-owned grocery retailer that serves the Midwest. Using Takeoff, Hy-Vee can further meet its customers’ growing demand for online shopping through Micro Fulfillment Centers in select metro locations. The technology will complement Hy-Vee’s Aisles Online grocery […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Kroger, Albertsons, Safeway excel in digital ordering: report

TOP TAKEAWAYS In 2023, the average number of shopping trips increased by 16%, while the average order value rose by 25% Customers’ online shopping preference rose for national retailers like Walmart (56% to 59%) and online-only choices like Amazon (26% to 28%), but fell for third-party apps like Instacart (18% to 13%) Digital shoppers like […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

SN Top 10: Hy-Vee, Stop &amp; Shop, Kroger top the week's headlines

    [[“value”:”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”]] 
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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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