Ahold Delhaize USA, SEE and ExxonMobil have announced their collaboration on an advanced recycling initiative. The project recycles flexible plastics from the food supply chain and remakes them into new, certified circular food-grade packaging. The initiative is expected to begin this summer and scale over time. “We’re proud to work with SEE and ExxonMobil on […]
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St. Pierre’s Expands Distribution To Costco Locations
St. Pierre Bakery has secured new distribution with Costco. The brand launched into the Bay Area division in 2021, distributed across 57 sites. Costco has now added St. Pierre’s core range to its Los Angeles division stores – initially through 30 of the 59 clubs in the Los Angeles division. The move will see Costco become […]
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IRI Report Shows Frozen Food Prices Rose Due To Other Price Inflations
To document the changing nature of the marketplace, IRI, Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics and Marriner Marketing have teamed up to continue to bring the latest trends and analysis relative to frozen food department sales. This is the third in a series of reports presented by IRI, discussing inflation trends. The price per unit across all foods […]
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IRI, Profitero Launch Granular Solution For Omnichannel Insights
IRI and Profitero will partner to enable clients to measure and optimize CPG digital shelf presence based on actual item-level sales. This solution will integrate IRI’s e-commerce point-of-sale data combined with Profitero’s digital shelf metrics on the IRI Liquid Data platform. “Profitero was the first to integrate digital shelf and sales metrics for e-commerce, and now we […]
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IRI Report Shows Dairy, Deli, Bakery Prices Continue To Rise
To document the changing nature of the marketplace, IRI, Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics and Marriner Marketing have teamed up continue to bring the latest trends and analysis relative to dairy, deli and bakery department sales. This is the second in a series of reports presented by IRI, discussing inflation trends. Perishables In March, total […]
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IRI Reports Meat Sales Continue To Trend Above Old Normal
To document the changing nature of the marketplace, IRI, Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics and Marriner Marketing have teamed up continue to bring the latest trends and analysis relative to meat department sales, including fresh and processed items. This is the first in a series of reports presented by IRI, discussing inflation trends. In March […]
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Congress Members Call On FTC To Address Economic Discrimination
A bipartisan coalition from the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter March 30 to the Federal Trade Commission requesting the agency investigate, and when appropriate, bring enforcement actions against economic discriminatory action that violates antitrust laws, including the FTC Act and the Robinson-Patman Act. “The antitrust laws were designed to protect against anticompetitive economic […]
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5 Questions For Tom Charley
The vice president of Pennsylvania’s Charley Family Shop N’ Save shares his thoughts on the current state of the industry and what the future holds for independent grocers. Charley recently testified before the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on how anticompetitive tactics by dominant retailers in the grocery marketplace leads […]