Viewpoints

It's that time once again where we pull back the curtain and reveal our annual food and shopping predictions based on our research conducted with our partner ConAgra Foods and findings from the SupermarketGuru.com Consumer Panel. 1. Grazing gold...

It’s not fair, but in some circles Millennials have become known as the generation that underperformed. This group, which ranges in age approximately from late teens to mid-30s, was hit especially hard by the Great Recession and its aftermath. H...

If all your market knowledge came from the general media, you’d already have concluded supermarkets are goners. There’s a growing drumbeat of stories about supermarket decline. “The Grocery Store May Be on Its Death Bed,” blared one headline fro...

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A French Bulldog as a cowboy. A dachshund as a bat. A Boxer as a butterly. These are some of the costumes pet owners submitted for Albertsons’ Purina-sponsored “Hairy N Scary” Halloween photo contest. Even those who didn’t have a costume for th...

After ceding the spotlight to local for the past few years, organic may once again be having a moment. Even McDonald’s is looking at organic for some products in certain markets, president and CEO Don Thompson told investors in an earnings call ...

It’s not exactly a sexy, foodie-sounding name. Nevertheless, click-and-collect, the online grocery strategy that requires customer pickup of merchandise at store curbside or elsewhere, is on a faster track. Both Kroger and Walmart recently unvei...

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...