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  1. Department & Category
  In today’s hyper-competitive food retail ecosystem, success rarely comes from simply selling food. It comes from creating menu item identity, delivering portable value, and building loyalty ecosystems that keep customers returning day after day. That’s exactly what Baltimore-based convenience retailer Royal Farms is doing with the debut of its proprietary RoFo Sauce as the […]
  1. Department & Category
  Snacking is no longer a guilty pleasure. It’s a lifestyle. Consumers are migrating from empty calories to better-for-you snacks that promise flavor, function, and transparency according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Today let’s explore the numbers behind the shift, highlights disruptive brands, and outlines what both shoppers and […]
  1. Data & Insights
Axios and The Harris Poll are out with their annual survey gauging “the reputation of the most visible brands in America.” This year, the survey pointed to “value” as being key to whether a company was ranked high or low, but this isn’t just about price – it also is about quality that is worth […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Last August, Casey’s teamed up with RangeMe to launch its first-ever Innovation Summit in an effort to discover new brands that would attract a broader array of customers to its stores. The convenience store chain, which operates more than 2,900 stores across 19 Midwestern states, discovered 19 new brands from the Summit, and their products […]

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  1. Trends & External Forces
  2. Shopper & Customer
  3. Technology & Innovation
  4. Trends & External Forces
  5. Associates & Employees
  6. Merchandising
  7. Stores & Formats
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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