- by Daniel Granderson
- September 4 2019
- food and beverage
- food retail
- food retailing
- food trends
- groceries
- grocery shopping
- natural and organic
- natural foods
- organic food
- supermarkets
4 Ways Grocers Can Improve Outreach to Affluent Food Shoppers

Packaged Fact identifies four key ways that U.S. grocers can better attract and meet the needs of this important and influential consumer segment.
- by Daniel Granderson
- July 1 2019
- finance
- food and beverage
- food retail
- food retailing
- healthy eating
- money
- money and finance
- natural and organic
- natural foods
- organic
- organic food
- Trader Joe’s
- Whole Foods
Affluent Food Shoppers: Money Isn’t Everything

The sheer volume of spending on food at home by affluent households—which is in excess of $100 billion—makes them an essential consumer segment for food manufacturers, marketers, distributors, and grocers...But, as Packaged Facts reports, it’s not money alone that sets affluent food shoppers apart.
- 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
- 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
- October 31 2016
- food research
- food retail
- food retailing
- health food
- healthy eating
- meal kits
- Whole Foods
Whole Foods, Purple Carrot delivering meal kits to retail stores but which consumers will bite?

Based on the number of meal kit delivery services around the country, the current numbers of meal shipments, and the almost certain entry of such services from retailers and food marketers (ahem Whole Foods), Packaged Facts conjectures that the U.S. meal kit delivery services market will generate $1.5 billion in sales by the end of 2016 and will grow to a multi-billion market over the next five years.
- by [email protected]
- November 12 2014
- Walmart
- Amazon
- grocery delivery
- food retailing
- food and beverage
- food research
- ecommerce
- groceries
- online retail
- online grocery shopping
Online grocery services: Ready to rocket to over $100 Billion?

For more than a decade, the notorious failure of Webvan scared many potential entrants away from the online grocery business. Now, the field is swiftly becoming crowded with trials by competitors and new operating models, with online grocery services apparently poised to take off on a high growth trajectory, according to Online Food Shopping and Grocery Delivery in the U.S.: Future of Food Retailing by Packaged Facts.
Meeting at the crossroads of technology and service, online grocery shopping...