by Denise Leathers | Mar 4, 2024
Price deflation, volume losses, weight loss drugs, rising costs… The food industry is facing a lot of headwinds this year. But one bit of good news comes from the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA), whose just-released 2024 Private Label Report reveals...
by Denise Leathers | Dec 1, 2023
New research on this up-and-coming cohort reveals a penchant for private label and social media. Are you using it to attract them to your store? My college-age daughter recently shared a conversation she had with her boyfriend while shopping for groceries together: “I...
by Denise Leathers | Nov 1, 2023
A pair of reports from AFFI and FMI offer insights and ideas for growing frozen food sales. Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the American Frozen Food Institute’s (AFFI) inaugural Frozen IQ conference. Held in collaboration with the Food Industry Association...
by Denise Leathers | Oct 1, 2023
Some think U.S. retailers should take a page from Carrefour’s playbook and call out CPGs guilty of ‘shrinkflation.’ French supermarket chain Carrefour raised some eyebrows last month when it placed stickers on 26 products warning consumers that manufacturers had...
by Denise Leathers | Sep 2, 2023
Could retail sales be on the way up, too? The plant-based meat category is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. As we note in our story this month regarding plant-based sales, dollar sales were down 11.8% during the most recent 12 weeks while units tumbled...