The editors at GrubStreet think we are! It’s a bad time to be in the business of selling groceries, and the headlines are as bleak as you’d expect: “The Retail Apocalypse Is Coming for Grocery Stores,” “The New Era of Grocery Just Claimed Its First Victims,” “Grocery Retail ‘Bloodbath’ Is Here,” [...]
November, 2017 - Earlier this month, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft supplemental guidance on menu labeling. Comments on the guidance will be due on January 8, 2018 and the menu labeling requirements will be enforced by the FDA beginning May 7, 2018. The Obama-era rules call for [...]
And will probably continue to fall May, 2017 - Anyone who shops at a large supermarket may have noticed a price war that has been brewing among major chains which has been bringing the cost of food down. The primary reason is due to an effort by Walmart to react to, and ready itself [...]
Survey Shows 46% of grocers behind in omnichannel April, 2017 - The number of brick & mortar grocers who have not deployed any omnichannel service offerings is over 46%. This according to Progressive Grocer's 2017 Report of the Grocery Industry. Omnichannel service programs provide customers with tools and messages both in-store and [...]
March, 2011 - We awoke this morning to the shocking news that supermarket grocery carts are bacteria laden, fecal carrying, ecoli-infested, poo machines. We wondered how it could be that last week this was essentially unknown to us and yet by 10AM these dirty facts were the topic of 2 stories on [...]
Wal-Mart Stores will create hundreds of management positions as part of a new program aimed at improving the fresh food sections at its U.S. stores, according to an artocle by Reuters. Wal-Mart, the largest grocer in the United States, has already hired 30 field managers and plans to hire hundreds more over [...]