Rural grocers share challenges and innovations at bi-annual conference, and USDA better defines “unfair practices” under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
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The federal government has tapped an unlikely accomplice, Instacart, to combat diet-related disease and expand “food as medicine” programs. Yet Instacart’s gig-worker business model drives the economic inequality at the root of nutrition disparity.
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After extracting hundreds of millions in dividends and navigating two bankruptcies, Lone Star private equity wants to sell Winn-Dixie to Aldi, further consolidating the Florida grocery market and putting thousands of jobs at risk.
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Grocers want to cash in on their troves of shopper data by selling more targeted ad spots online and in-store. But the largest grocers and food brands are poised to make the most money and sales off this growing trend.
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A new economic study makes the case that concentrated market power helped corporations pull off pandemic price hikes and reap record profits.
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No one seems to know how to offer quick, profitable grocery delivery without gouging grocers, exploiting workers, or abandoning brick-and-mortar stores altogether.
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A trade association for independent grocers calls on Congress to revise and enforce a law banning price discrimination that antitrust enforcers have put on the shelf.
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Walmart sells 50 percent or more of all groceries in one in every ten metropolitan areas and nearly one in three “micropolitan” areas across the country, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, out last week. In 38 of these regions, Walmart sells 70 percent or more of all groceries.
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