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 [...]
Ahold Delhaize, the parent company of U.S. Supermarket chains such as Giant Food, Food Lion and Hannaford, is hoping that "robotic picking technology" will help it compete in the same-day grocery delivery business. This according to a report from Reuters. Ahold owns online grocer Peapod which is the market leader in next [...]
There was a time when food was sold through much more rigid channels than exist today. For the most part consumers used to buy their meats, dry groceries and fresh food at a supermarket and when they had extra income to splurge on "out of the house" food they would drive to [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ever wonder where your T-Bone Steak or the juicy sirloin tips you had for dinner the other night come from? While most meat eaters know that both a filet mignon and a burger come from a cow, the majority don't give too much thought to where each meat cut comes from [...]
Ever wonder which fast food restaurant is the largest out of the thousands of fast food restaurants in the world? It seems like a simple question but as it turns out it can get quite complicated. The problem with providing a simple answer primarily has to do with the fact that term [...]
Kroger Co. was the leading supermarket in the United States with sales of over $105 billion in 2017 and a total of 2,782 locations across the U.S. Whether or not the company that sells us so much of our food has a self interest in defining and setting consumer trends is debatable. [...]