Progressive Grocer

Way back at the turn of the last century – 1999, to be exact – one of the hot topics in the U.S. supermarket industry was online grocery shopping. Peapod had recently expanded, Webvan had raised hundreds of millions...

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month may not be until October, but many grocery retailers and suppliers in the U.S. are equally committed to combating the deadly disease through year-round initiatives. Nevertheless, the month-long occasion is when such promotions are...

The Indian baby food market, though at a nascent stage, is among the fastest growing baby food markets in the world. In the last few years, it has grown at 10-12 percent per annum. However, lack of product awareness...

One of the fastest growing categories in the Indian household products industry is the multi-purpose household cleaning and laundry products. Though customers hardly gave it its due attention until a few years ago, a number of factors, including the...

The rise in levels of health consciousness among consumers in recent times has led to the evolution of many alternative therapies – not just to cure the body, but also the soul! The secret to a healthy life, though,...

Chances are, when consumers reach for a cookie or cracker, that item will contain whole grains. These days, the healthfulness of such products is touted in health studies and the media, as well as on items’ nutritional panels and...

Max is the new buzzword at PepsiCo. The beverages major has launched a cola drink that offers more fizz and punch, but no sugar. Though PepsiCo already has a cola drink in the low-calorie segment, Diet Pepsi, with the...

As a nation, Americans are literally bursting at the seams. Obesity is a national health threat and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an increasing challenge to public health in the last decade. The Atlanta-based...

For long, home-made masalas, including curries and pastes, have remained an indispensable item in most Indian kitchens. Though their position has more or less remained unchallenged, they have now begun to get some severe competition from ready-to-cook (RTC) curries,...

Connecting with shoppers at the shelf is crucial for food packaging concepts, and innovations in fresh food packaging are no exception. "More and more, purchase decisions are being made inside the store and directly at the retail shelf,” says...

Today, worries about the economy are prompting many American shoppers to tighten their belts, while concerns about diet and health, as well as steadily expanding waistlines, are forcing many to let that belt out a notch or two, or...

For years, supermarket lighting was the domain of what Jeff Brooks, director of business development at Largo, Fla.-based ElectraLED Inc., calls “energy hogs” – like the 70-watt CMH track light fixtures used to highlight high-impact areas in supermarkets like...

Having just arrived in the north woods of Wisconsin for my 24th annual get-together with college friends, I noticed that the baggage wizards at Delta had somehow managed to mangle my cell phone charger beyond recognition. This wasn’t a...

Those of you who walked the FMI expo floor in Las Vegas this past May likely came across one of the many suppliers that presented their offerings using an iPad. I myself viewed at least a half-dozen presentations on...