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Nielsen, Charlotte’s Web Launch CBD Retail Market Measurement

Nielsen, the New York City-based market intelligence company, and Charlotte’s Web Holdings Inc., a cannabidiol (CBD) brand, have formed an analytic relationship. Together, Nielsen and Charlotte’s Web will help guide the U.S. retail market for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies through the evolution of the CBD space. Mirroring the changing tide happening across the U.S. […]

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H-E-B Opens Its Buffalo Heights Store, First In Mixed-Use Development

H-E-B opened the new Buffalo Heights location Wednesday, Oct. 9, further expanding the company’s inner loop footprint in Houston. The store anchors the new Buffalo Heights mid-rise project at Washington Avenue and Heights Boulevard at 3663 Washington Avenue. It marks the first H-E-B built in a mixed-use development. The brand new, 96,000-s.f. store features expansive […]

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Safe Harvest Debuts Its Line Of Soups In Glass Jars

Safe Harvest soups in glass jars launched in 2,100 stores including Kroger, Ralphs, QFC and Fred Meyer, King Sooper, Fry’s, Roundy’s, Smiths and Dillons. “Ingredient purity and fresh taste is paramount for us,” says Bryan Boches, co-founder of Safe Catch. “We source wild seafood for its purity, amazing taste and nutrients, and we use organic […]

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Humming Hemp Launches Hummingbar Protein Bar Lineup

Humming Hemp, a Richland, Washington-based company launched its new, hemp-based protein bar, the hummmingbar. The new hummmingbar product line features five clean label bars. “Hemp has been misrepresented and ignored for too long,” says founder and CEO Hilary Kelsay. “In truth, hemp and, specifically, hemp seeds, are a sustainable and healthy protein food source. In […]

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Fit For Bucks App Rewards Shoppers For Physical Activity

Fit For Bucks, a new health and fitness app that rewards customers for their physical activity, offers a new marketing tool for retailers like grocers. The tool not only helps users improve their health, it also provides an opportunity for merchants to get new customers in the door. The Fit For Bucks platform incentivizes users […]

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Spindrift Sparkling Water Now Available In All Publix Stores

Spindrift sparkling water now is available at Publix grocery store locations throughout the Southeast. Spindrift says it is pioneering a new segment of sparkling water focusing on real, traceable ingredients. Using water, bubbles and real squeezed fruit, all products are free from added sweeteners or natural flavors, and are made with fruit that is picked […]

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Kroger Will Exit E-Cigarette Business, Citing Questions, Complexity

In a statement from a Kroger Co. spokesperson this afternoon, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based grocery chain said it is getting out of the e-cigarette business. “Kroger is discontinuing the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products, or e-cigarettes, at all store and fuel center locations due to the mounting questions and increasingly-complex regulatory environment associated with these […]

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Lafe’s Natural BodyCare Debuts CBD Roll-On Deodorant

Lafe’s Natural BodyCare recently introduced its CBD Roll-On Deodorant with 50mg of full-spectrum CBD oil. Lafe’s said the product is one of the first CBD roll-on deodorants containing 50mg of full-spectrum CBD oil and made with natural/organic ingredients and essential oils, clinically proven by a third party for 24 hours of protection. It’s cruelty free, […]