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Top 10 Grocers in the United States – 2019 List

This is our list of top grocers for 2019. The most recent list of the top 10 Grocers in the United States can be found here.  1. WALMART INC. Grocery Sales: $288 billion from 4,253 stores. (Walmart's & Sam's Club total revenues in 2019 were over $514 billion and grocery now accounts [...]

2023-11-22T09:27:32-05:00January , 2020|

Is cultured chicken meat about to go mainstream?

In December of 2020, the Singapore Food Agency approved an application to manufacture and sell cell-cultured chicken by Eat Just, a US based startup known for developing plant-based egg substitutes. The cell-cultured chicken will eventually be produced under Eat Just’s GOOD Meat brand and will go on sale to foodservice before it [...]

2021-06-22T15:49:05-04:00December , 2019|

Do Ghost Restaurants Have a Future?

Whether it's been called 'delivery' or 'take-out', restaurants like pizza shops and Chinese food establishments have been offering meal delivery services for ages. As long as these restaurants had a steady supply of youngsters with driver's licenses who were looking to make some extra spending money along with a dense customer [...]

2019-12-19T09:56:24-05:00December , 2019|

The cottage food industry explained

Food processing is a large complex sector of the global food industry that is dominated by large multi-national corporations. And all food companies in the United States, whether a small company or a large company, must adhere to a dizzying variety of food safety and labeling laws at both the Federal and [...]

2019-12-04T10:19:57-05:00November , 2019|

How many grocery stores are there in the United States?

Related Links: The largest US Supermarket company is The Kroger Co...but there's a hitch. The top 10 grocers in the US by sales volume are... The answer to this question is always in flux as the retail landscape changes and the definition of a 'grocery store' is challenged. That [...]

2023-11-22T09:51:57-05:00April , 2019|

Is farming octupus unethical?

A Japanese aquaculture company recently announced it has succeeded in hatching eggs of fully farmed octopus in western Japan. The seafood company confirmed the hatching of about 140,000 eggs produced by octopus conceived by artificial incubation and is hoping to ship fully farmed octopus to retailers and restaurants across Japan as early [...]

2023-11-22T10:25:50-05:00April , 2019|
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