You’d think Supermarket News editors have heard it all after 17 years of conducting annual financial analyst roundtables. But the most recent one, profiled this week, was different and in some ways bleaker than the others. The top-notc...

It’s a good time for produce. Michelle Obama has been telling the nation to eat its vegetables; half the plate has been officially been reserved for fruit and veggies; and even fast food chains have been moving to add more produce to their men...

Retailers and suppliers like to say that everything they do is built around the needs of consumers. But that’s impossible to accomplish 24/7. The best you can do is integrate this goal into daily strategies and processes, and hope that it pays...

CPG manufacturers may be on the cusp of monumental change as voters in California contemplate a hotly contested ballot initiative to require labeling of genetically modified foods. Food marketers will face tough choices should the measure ...

Here’s a question to separate industry veterans from later arrivals. What is Efficient Consumer Response? If you need to use your smartphone to look up the answer, you’re not one of those who can recall the flurry of activity around th...

There’s an app for that! How many times have you seen or heard that phrase? And how often are you bombarded by words (including mine) urging you and your stores to embrace and understand the new mobile technologies? And how often do you us...

There’s good news and bad news for supermarkets in the latest consumer spending data. Let’s start with the good. Just over half of consumers — 51% — are still eating out less today than before the downturn started, and 90% said they’ll...

A number of reports released over the past few weeks have touted the bright outlook for retail health clinics. It’s a prospect buoyed, no doubt, by the anticipated flood of 30 million Americans who will be eligible for coverage under the forth...

There’s an important piece of food safety regulation working its way through Washington, and it’s not exactly speeding. Some consumer groups call the pace too slow and claim it will compromise overall safety. But there’s a more optimistic ...

The torrid heat wave that made last month the hottest on record and left a devastating drought in key farm states underscores that climate change is no longer just a theoretical foreshadowing of future events — it has very real-world, present...