Spicy quinoa salad with Chimichurri dressing and a cold-pressed apple, celery, beet, ginger, parsley, spinach and lemon concoction seem like a stretch for a chain that caters to the Slurpee and Big Bites crowd, but in an effort to appeal to disce...

Natural products suppliers are vying to introduce new items to supermarkets, but often they don’t understand how this retail channel really works. Supermarkets are the food retail big leagues. Success here is based on different rules than in nat...

It seems the immediate crisis has passed at Market Basket, and that’s a very good thing. The riveting six-week saga spawned hundreds of articles, blog posts and other commentary about this New England retailer that dissected developments from al...

I’m sure you have noticed how Uber has upped the game in same-day delivery, social media, mobile payments — and food. An upstart that was born in San Francisco in 2010 that is very focused, organized and well-funded, Uber is now operating in 1...

As “local” has exploded as one of the top attributes consumers look for in all kinds of food — but especially produce — retailers and their customers have come up with widely varying definitions of what can be considered locally grown. It might m...

What makes for a healthy industry? Sales growth. Innovation. Efficiency. Yes, all those things. But I would argue for another one too: idea sharing. This is especially important to keep a large, mature industry like food retail vibrant. SN ju...

I was shopping in my local Stop & Shop when I passed an endcap display for laundry detergent. While the detergent specials were enticing, what really caught my attention was a shelf sign (see related photo gallery) jetting out from the display. T...

I’m often asked for a brief overview of how categories are performing at retail, but it’s not a topic that leads to a quick take. There are many thousands of products on store shelves and a continued flood of new item introductions each year, so ...

Retail competition is intense and home shopping is gaining momentum, but the allure of adding more stores is hard to resist. That’s why unit and geographic expansion is still a front-burner strategy for many retail CEOs, an important takeaway fr...

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