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. [...]
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,” [...]
In some ways "processed food" gets a bad rap. The truth is that a majority of foods that we eat are in fact processed. Spinach that is cleaned and bagged, yogurt made at home and even a boiled egg all qualify as processed foods because strictly speaking once a food is altered [...]
For years, China has been the largest market for US Soybeans but sales to China are down 94% from the 2017 harvest. The steep drop is due to retaliation for tariff actions taken by the Trump administration in 2018. Rather than pay the increased price for soybeans, the Chinese are turning to [...]
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 the [...]
A minor detail in 2017 trade talks between the US and the UK seems to have grabbed the media's attention. The controversy revolves around safety concerns about chlorine-washed chicken being sold in Britain as part of a potential UK/US trade deal after Brexit. It is expected that the US farming industry will push [...]