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In addition to specialty-volume channel hybrids such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, national supermarket chains and big-box retailers from Kroger to Walmart are increasingly major players on the specialty food retail scene. Here is the source of news and trends on these chains to learn how they’re evolving and expanding their operations.
Volume Retailer News
A bill to crack down on agricultural products that are falsely labeled under the “Jersey Fresh” program cleared the New Jersey Assembly May 20.
Kroger is still shopping for acquisitions, according to CFO Michael Schlotman at BMO Capital Markets’ Farm to Market Conference.
Retail Operations And Business Building
By accepting and aligning yourself with these powerful rules for life, you can dial back your stress and find an easier road to professional—and personal—satisfaction.
Just like the other key relationships in our lives, how we choose to interact with time can affect how happy, productive and balanced we are. Ari Weinzweig shares four tips for learning to appreciate and manage time.
Category Focus
Label-reading has infiltrated the candy aisle, with more consumers wanting cleaner ingredients even in their indulgences. But flavor punches still draw the masses, as candies get creative with salt, sour and downright surprising flavors. Here’s what you need to know.
By merging different types of treats, manufacturers are creating new dessert “mash-ups”—and consumers are showing no hesitation getting on board.
Store Openings And Expansions In Volume Retail
Walgreens opened an 18,000 square-foot store in San Francisco's Union Square that offers a selection of high-end wines, gourmet foods and beauty products.
Starbucks agreed to acquire Teavana Holdings for $620 million in cash.
Buyers' Picks
When pairing products, cheesemongers like sweet, savory, briny, chocolaty and crunchy with their cheeses. Neutral and fruity crackers also rate.
High-priced specialty items and unusual flavors are taking off, much to some retailers’ surprise.
Supplier Profiles
After a ten-year career in product management and marketing in New York, Tasia Malakasis enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America, but it was a trip to Dean & Deluca that changed her life. There she discovered Belle Chevre goat cheese, made in her hometown ...
Pamela Giusto-Sorrells was born into a family of natural foods entrepreneurs. Her grandparents bought a health-food store in San Francisco in 1940, which eventually became Giusto Specialty Foods. After college, Giusto-Sorrells decided to start her own venture, Pamela’s Products, to do what no one was ...
Prepared Food Recipes (With Cost Sheets)
This savory strudel marries the full flavor of sheep’s cheese from the Pyrenees with sauteed mushrooms and leeks.
This cream puff dessert will appeal to sophisticated customers who appreciate England’s famous Stilton blue cheese along with a garnish of dried cherries in port wine.
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