Food Trade News & Food World

Size matters. Even if all parts of your game aren’t strong, leveraging heft and scale can cover a lot of mistakes. Now that Amazon has moved on from the failures of “Fresh” and “Go” (as well as other non-food brick-and-mortar ventures), it can concentrate on using its might and technological skills to move its grocery business forward. 

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I grew up in the dairy-deli business. My father ran a food brokerage that specialized in it, and before I ever knew what a Nielsen report was, I was learning the rhythms of the case. 

The particular logic of how you merchandise specialty cheese next to sliced meats, the way a well-lit deli counter could stop a shopper cold. Back then, the only use for kale was to ...

Today’s store perimeter is emerging as one of the most important areas where shoppers find what they value most: freshness, convenience and differentiation. Dairy, deli, and bakery departments are becoming outsized trip drivers, traffic builders and some of the clearest expressions of a grocer’s brand identity.

Consumers are increasingly judging stores not by the newes...

Food-at-home inflation accelerated sharply in April, adding fresh pressure to grocery budgets and raising concerns across the food supply chain as global energy market volatility and higher protein costs continue to ripple through the market.

According to new Consumer Price Index data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, food-at-home prices rose 0.7...

The FTN/FW Top 10 Grocery & CPG Stocks are curated using a combination of market relevance, segment representation, trading activity, and weekly performance trends. We’re less interested in leaderboard bragging rights than in where capital is flowing – and what that says about how investors are reading the grocery business in real time