While dry grocery remained the top-selling category, accounting for 38% of sales last year, fresh departments collectively contributed a significant 42%. This includes meat and produce, each ...

Retail in 2025 is increasingly defined by what Elizabeth LaFontaine, retail strategist and director of research at Placer.ai, calls a “bifurcation of consumers,” a trend she expects to extend into ...

Food retailers are finding that they can generate outsized returns by making sustainability investments in five value-chain segments: processing, manufacturing, food services, restaurants and retail, ...

ARLINGTON, VA. — Bakery generated the highest sales growth last year among supermarket perimeter departments, according to FMI-The Food Industry Association’s The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2024 ...

Online food retail use is rapidly increasing in popularity, and offers user-friendly apps, and new food delivery models, including online food delivery platforms, online grocery retailers, and online ...

In industries where compliance violations can directly impact customer health, this becomes incredibly important.

Growth areas include premium, health and wellbeing, and products boasting simple and clean ingredients. Texas Born (TXB) recently expanded the chain's private label line of fresh, locally sourced ...

Retail food brands over the last two years have faced economic headwinds, including the rising cost of doing business caused by inflation, increased interest rates and other industry-related factors.

WASHINGTON — Three food retail trade groups peg the cost of implementing state waivers to disqualify certain foods and beverages for purchase via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

Hunger is on the rise. In September, the USDA released its annual estimate of food insecurity for 2023 showing an increase to 47.4 million Americans — that’s 1 in 7 people — who are food insecure, the ...