Why have investors gone nuts for Beyond Meat, the maker of a vegetable-based meat alternative? And “nuts” is an apt term. Beyond had its IPO in May at $25 per share that raised $240 million… Read More
After a lengthy period of topside executive turmoil, Sprouts Farmers Market recently landed a new chief executive officer who will have his hands full with challenges facing the supermarket chain. Jack Sinclair, was appointed CEO… Read More
Imagine you’re a retailer selling a line of product that well-informed customers increasingly perceive can confer substantial benefit on them. Well, supermarket retailers are in just that position as consumers become convinced that to some… Read More
In the usual course of events, when Amazon or its close sibling Whole Foods opens a new food-retailing format, a huge burst of publicity ensues, often featuring enthusiastic, ill-informed predictions about how the new format… Read More
The dam has burst. It’s now evident that there’s no stopping the proliferation of curbside pickup points being rolled out by food retailers. The most compelling indication of that came a short time ago when… Read More
The first preview emerged a few weeks ago when Amazon acknowledged that the Whole Foods “365” format would no longer exist. Later, it was further acknowledged that all 12 of those stores would be converted… Read More
How about getting lunch from a vending machine? Strangely enough, maybe yes. The seemingly antiquated technology behind enterprises such as the Automat are taking on modern aspects and resurfacing in unexpected ways. One version is… Read More
Not too long ago, the sales of private label products stood as a useful barometer for food retailing and the economy in general. When the economy was in decline, which caused a drop in food… Read More
As food retailing’s big three go, so goes all of food retailing. That’s not as extravagant a claim as it might seem. Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons together sell the vast majority of all food and… Read More
A strange thing happened to Blue Apron on its way to an IPO, and then in its aftermath. The whole experience for Blue Apron was an economic misadventure, which tells us a lot about the… Read More
