- by Noah Miller
- September 13 2017
- Amazon
- food retail
- grocery shopping
- natural foods
- Whole Foods
Amazon Online Grocery Sales Surge with Whole Foods Acquisition
Whole Foods’ branded product web sales reached $500,000, after Amazon placed about 2,000 items from Whole Foods’ 365 Everyday Value brand on its site.
- by Daniel Granderson
- August 22 2017
- Amazon
- ecommerce
- food and beverage
- food retail
- online retail
- Whole Foods
Whole Foods and the Transformation of Amazon Fresh
Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods should push product choices higher in relatively short order. And that is just the beginning.
- by Noah Miller
- June 19 2017
- Amazon
- ecommerce
- food retail
- food retailing
- groceries
- grocery shopping
- Whole Foods
With Whole Foods, Amazon Goes for the Grocery Gold
Even before the acquisition, it was hard to escape the sense that time was on Amazon’s side rather than Walmart’s, especially in terms of growth.
- by Daniel Granderson
- May 24 2017
- food and beverage
- food retail
- grocery shopping
- retail
Lidl and E-Commerce Putting a new Face on Value Grocery Retailing
In the $40 billion market for value grocery retailers, Lidl could represent a major shift, possibly influencing the way large numbers of Americans shop for groceries
- by Daniel Granderson
- April 3 2017
- clean labels
- dairy
- dessert
- food retail
- food retailing
- frozen desserts
- frozen food
- ice cream
- natural and organic
- natural foods
- retail
Store brand ice cream heating up competition
Sales of private label frozen desserts have grown steadily over the last couple of decades. In recent years, about two-thirds of consumers have come to accept that private label frozen desserts are equal in quality to name brand frozen desserts. This perception is based in reality, as private label frozen desserts have been on a steady rise in terms of quality over the past three decades.
- by Daniel Granderson
- March 2 2017
- food and beverage
- food formulation
- food ingredients
- food labels
- food retail
- food trends
- healthy eating
- healthy snacks
- salty snacks
- snacks
Alternative Ingredient Snacks are for City Folk
Americans living in urban areas are the biggest fans of alternative ingredient snacks, even more so than people who live in suburban areas and far more than those living in rural settings. The differences are most pronounced for pulse- and seaweed-based snacks, but the pattern holds true for every type of alternative ingredient salty snack and cracker; rural snackers are just less interested.
- by Daniel Granderson
- February 27 2017
- celiac disease
- food allergies
- food and beverage
- food formulation
- food ingredients
- food labels
- food retail
- food trends
- gluten free
- gluten free label
Gluten-Free: More Than A Matter of Trust
For the millions of people who have celiac disease the various gluten-free certifications are of great value, not only helping them to manage a serious health condition, but providing psychological and emotional relief as well.
- by Daniel Granderson
- February 16 2017
- food and beverage
- food formulation
- food ingredients
- food labels
- food marketing
- food packaging
- food retail
- food trends
- kids
- kids food
- moms
Marketing kids’ foods: threading the health needle
The kids’ food and beverage market is particularly challenging because industry players must market to children and parents at the same time. This means delivering on healthfulness: Nearly half (46%) of parents list nutritional value as most important when choosing foods at the supermarket for their children, the highest response rate among 16 choices.
- by Daniel Granderson
- December 15 2016
- alternative protein
- beef
- fish
- food and beverage
- food ingredients
- food packaging
- food research
- food retail
- food safety
- meat
- pork
- poultry
- protein
- protein sources
Consumers and meat & poultry: Transparency and knowledge
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Perhaps more than ever before, consumers want to know about what’s in their meat and poultry, how it was raised and where it came from. This need to know taps a breadth of concerns related to food healthfulness and sustainable practices, as discussed in the Packaged Facts report, "Meat, Poultry and Seafood: Restaurant Trends and Opportunities".
- by Daniel Granderson
- November 10 2016
- breakfast
- breakfast trends
- food and beverage
- food beverage
- food packaging
- food presentation
- food research
- food retail
- food trends
- healthy snacks
- snack foods
- snacking
Blurring the breakfast food lines: breakfast or snack?
Consumers continue to embrace snacking—not only as viable daypart option but also as a paradigm through which to view eating in general (smaller, more frequent meals). This has caused and will continue to cause changes in consumers’ relationships with traditional breakfast foods.
