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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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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 First to Host New Closed-Loop Measurement Tool for In-Store Ads

Midwestern grocery chain Hy-Vee will be the launch partner for Grocery TV’s new closed-loop measurement solution for in-store retail media. Designed to tie sales data directly to campaign impressions and provide faster campaign insights, the solution allows brands to better measure ROAS (return on ad spend). “Through our partnership with Grocery TV, we are helping […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

GoodRx Partners with Hy-Vee to Enhance Online Prescription Shopping

GoodRx has streamlined the online prescription purchase process, launching the experience with employee-owned Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee. When a customer searching for medications on GoodRx selects Hy-Vee as their preferred pharmacy, the system will check for medication inventory, validate the prescription and enable online payment prior to picking up the medication. “Using this new online […]
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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. Channel: Restaurants

What Grocery Stores Don’t Understand About Restaurants in Their Stores

  In today’s dynamic food landscape, grocery stores and supermarkets are venturing boldly into the restaurant space, attempting to compete with quick-service and sit-down dining establishments. Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® was the first to predict that this venture would present challenges, as these grocery-restaurant hybrids frequently misunderstand the core […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The 7 Undercurrents Driving Grocerant Niche Adoption in 2025

  The evolution of Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food has surged over the years, with 2025 proving to be a landmark moment for the grocerant niche. These retail food solutions cater to time-starved consumers seeking convenience, quality, and value. Steven Johnson, Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru®, based in Tacoma, WA identifies seven powerful undercurrents driving this […]
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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: Restaurants

Success in Engaging Gen Z—A Lesson for Restaurants and C-Stores

  Steven Johnson the Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® believe that in a rapidly evolving food and convenience landscape, the ability to tap into new consumer behaviors is essential. Claim, the viral social app targeting Gen Z, is not just reshaping the digital marketing game, but is teaching valuable lessons for restaurants, […]
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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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