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Leverage AI to Enhance Shoppers’ Beef Knowledge & Increase Loyalty, Spending, Trips

Sponsored content by Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. It’s hard to go more than a day in the retail industry without hearing about another artificial intelligence (AI) advancement or partnership. AI is being embraced by retailers, and businesses at large, for a range of business enhancing tactics: everything from optimizing inventory and pricing strategies to […]

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Chase Freedom Will Offer Grocery Store Cash Back Category In Spring

Chase Freedom will offer grocery stores and home improvement stores as new quarterly categories in the spring. The Wilmington, Delaware, company’s quarterly categories allow cardmembers to earn 5 percent cash back on up to $1,500 in combined purchases from April 1 through June 30. “We know our cardmembers are eager to kick off spring with […]

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New Report Says Multi-Beverage Blends Trending

U.S. Beverage Market Outlook 2019 says new innovations and mashup formulations have been growing in popularity. Efforts by marketers and manufacturers have given the otherwise mature beverage industry the buoyancy necessary to stay afloat and thrive, according to the new report by market research firm Packaged Facts. Among the most important recent innovations identified by […]

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Garnier Introduces ‘By Garnier, Naturally’ With Greenhouse Tour

Garnier has a new tagline, “By Garnier, Naturally,” and has launched a Greenhouse Tour to promote its sustainability efforts. New York-based Garnier is continuing its efforts to reduce plastic usage by committing to 100 percent post-consumer recycled waste for shampoo and conditioner bottles in its Fructis Sleek & Shine collection by the end of 2019. […]

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Enlightened Introduces Pints and Novelty Ice Cream Bar

Enlightened Ice Cream has introduced two new snack products featuring its signature high-protein, low-sugar ice cream: a novelty ice cream bar and a special flavor run in one-pint containers. The items include the popular combination of sweet and salty flavors. All That & a Bag of Chips is potato chip ice cream with chocolate chips and […]

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Consider ‘Sustainability’ In Construction And Equipment

by Steve Mehmert/managing partner, T4 Solutions Sustainable: “of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged.”—Merriam-Webster online dictionary Every day we read more and more about supermarkets that are embracing sustainability in their daily operations. We hear the terms reduce, reuse […]

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Nielsen: Walmart, Instacart, Kroger Gaining On Amazon

The race to master omnichannel retail within the grocery/consumer packaged goods space is on, according to research conducted by Nielsen. With Walmart’s successful push toward online migration, the rapid rise of grocery delivery players like Instacart and Amazon’s foray into physical stores, it’s really anyone’s game to win. While it’s premature to predict how Amazon […]