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. [...]
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,” [...]