Millennial and Gen Z consumers are moving away from rules-based diets and prioritizing holistic, personalized eating habits that focus on real foods with functional attributes, according to experts at data analytics firm SPINS. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Online mega-retailer Amazon once again is retooling its plan to disrupt the brick-and-mortar grocery industry with the announcement that it will close all of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores and Amazon Go convenience stores. @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

GLP-1s have been hailed as miracle drugs for their effectiveness in weight loss, but users are likely to experience rapid weight regain once they stop taking them, according to a new study. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Street food is no longer just a local, on-the-go meal – it is setting the pace of innovation for the biggest names in CPG, from Pepsi and Del Monte to Mars, and reshaping how brands approach spicy, globally-inspired flavors. @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

The freeze-dried candy market is growing and some of the biggest candymakers are jumping in the game, but the burgeoning market has been a challenge for some. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

What consumers put on their plates can carry a hidden human toll, and some diets are far more entangled in forced labor than others, according to a new study by Tufts University and the University of Nottingham. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Following a recent endorsement from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) as a practical source of nutrition, frozen food is seeing a pivotal shift – one captured in Conagra Brands’s third annual Future of Frozen Food report. @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

“Highly-processed foods” is hardly a new term, but its appearance in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans – instead of the more familiar “ultra-processed foods” – didn’t go unnoticed. - FoodNavigator www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Food prices surged 0.7% in December, marking the largest one-month increase in over three years and more than doubling the broader economy’s inflation rate of 0.3%, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released Tuesday. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Impossible Foods @impossiblefoods.bsky.social is teaming up with EQUII, a maker of protein-rich grain-based pastas and breads, though details on the new partnership and its forthcoming products are slim. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

As competitors shutter unprofitable stores and shrink their physical footprints, Aldi is doubling down on growth – opening new locations at a pace few rivals can match. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

USDA 2-strikes rule on sweets sales threatens retailers accepting SNAP bucks: Grocer retailers got a 90-day reprieve on sweets SNAP restrictions, but the tight compliance window could push retailers out of the program. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Federal diet guidelines accused of bowing to Big Meat: Critics accuse regulators of bypassing recommendations from the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and instead taking their guidance from the meat and dairy industry. @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Facing inflation, halted food assistance benefits, reduced drug prices and belt-tightening from lower- and middle-income shoppers, Albertsons had a tough third quarter. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Canada is kicking off 2026 with a front-of-package labeling regulation that could have a big impact on public health and sales of high-fat, -sugar and -sodium foods. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

Up to 80% of products containing GMOs have avoided mandatory product labeling for the last five years despite a federal law requiring them, but that could change following a ruling on Monday by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. - @foodnazi42.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

McCormick & Company is poised to expand its Mexican and Latin American footprint by acquiring an increased ownership stake in McCormick de Mexico from its long-time business partner Grupo Herdez. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026...

When Justin Gold, founder of his namesake snack company Justin's, left the business in 2021, he had a gut feeling he’d return someday. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...

Trump tariffs will face a Supreme Court showdown today – a make-or-break moment for the administration’s trade policies – and the outcome could determine whether price hikes on food products like coffee and beef continue. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...

President Donald Trump’s April executive order mandating English proficiency for commercial truck drivers has taken thousands off the road and grown the US trucker shortage, threatening supply chains. - @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...

Hormel & PE firm Forward Consumer Partners struck a new strategic partnership Tuesday, wherein Hormel will relinquish ownership control of Justin’s, enabling the premium nut & butter snack brand to become a standalone company. @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...

Paris-based tech company #Yuka, which operates a mobile app that enables users to scan food and cosmetic products and evaluate their health impacts, is bringing its campaign to ban #aspartame to the United States. @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...

Food Intelligence, by @kevinh-phd.bsky.social & @juliabelluz.bsky.social, examines enduring myths and misinformation about the food system & calls for more rigorous research into the ways our food may be undermining public health. @foodnavigator.bsky.social www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...

Hispanic grocer Heritage Grocers Group announced Thursday that after eight months in the role, Suzy Monford is stepping down from her position as CEO and chairperson. - Supermarket News supermarketnews.com/executive-mo...

The growing popularity of GLP-1 drugs is profoundly changing the way people eat and creating a new demographic of shoppers for CPG companies to chase. That could mean a reversal of the bigger-is-better mindset that has dominated CPG products for decades. www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-mark...

Private-label dollar sales were up 4.4% year over year in the first half of 2025, quadrupling the 1.1 % gain reported by national brands. PLMA projects 2025 store-brand sales to reach about $277B in 2025, beating its 2024 record of $271B. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/private-labe...

Unionized Safeway workers in Northern California are set to go on strike on July 26 if they fail to reach an agreement on contract negotiations, according to a statement from United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) locals 5, 8, and 648. - Supermarket News www.supermarketnews.com/retail-labor...

Food City / KVAT Foods Inc. is launching in-store retail media at 140 stores across its five-state footprint through a new partnership with Grocery TV, the grocer said on Friday. - Supermarket News www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

I created a spreadsheet of all of ALDI USA's private-label brands at my local store using photographs of the labels and Google Gemini #artificialintelligence. I'll show you how I did it in my new #AI tutorial! Check it out on Journalism AI Toolkit! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3iT...

Three more grocery retailers—Wegmans Food Markets, Gopuff, and Family Dollar—are now accepting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) dollars as payment for orders made through last-mile delivery service Uber Eats. - Supermarket News www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

In-store digital signage is coming to Vallarta Supermarkets, providing consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands a new way to engage with shoppers. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

In this tutorial, we're diving into a super practical workflow that's a game-changer for anyone dealing with data. We'll show you step-by-step how to extract data from a PDF screenshot using Perplexity AI and import it into Google Sheets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZM...

As competition heats up in northern Texas from H-E-B, Kroger is focusing on the region with leadership structure changes through the creation of a new division to oversee the entire state. - Supermarket News www.supermarketnews.com/executive-mo...

Gen Z, Millennial, and Gen X grocery shoppers are gravitating towards supermarkets that offer discounts, while their Baby Boomer and Silent Generation counterparts still prefer pure-play grocers, according to The Feedback Group. #SupermarketNews #Grocery www.supermarketnews.com/consumer-tre...

Get ready to revolutionize your journalism and content creation workflow with #Perplexity Pages and Perplexity Labs! In this episode of the Journalism AI Toolkit, I'm diving deep into these game-changing features from Perplexity AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_9z...

Limited-time deals on artificially scarce products are helping grocers win shoppers, according to Placer.ai. These highly sought after product drops are resonating with shoppers at #TraderJoe's and #Target in particular. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-mark...

The federal budget bill, known as the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, narrowly passed in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, and includes sweeping changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program #SNAP. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/legislation-...

#Target on Monday announced its deals for #CircleWeek, which runs July 6-12 and includes specials on household and grocery items. The week of summer specials runs alongside #Amazon Prime Day (July 8-11) & #Walmart Deals sale (July 8-13). - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-mark...

Robots could soon outnumber their human counterparts at #Amazon warehouses, as the online retail giant doubles down on its automated workforce, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

It’s been 8 mo. since #AholdDelhaize was hit with a #cyberattack that disabled its operation—now, new information shows that 2.24M people were impacted. The update follows another cybersecurity attack at #UNFI, which stalled deliveries for #WholeFoods. www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 at UNFI Cub Foods and Haug’s Cub Foods have ratified a three-year contract that includes wage increases for all employees, the union announced Monday. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/retail-labor...

Reproductive health care, food waste reporting, and human rights due diligence are all on the agenda for the annual #Albertsons shareholder meeting on Aug. 7, marking the first time in recent memory that investors have brought their concerns. #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/company-news...

🚀 Excited to share my new tutorial on #PerplexityTasks! If you're looking to automate your workflow, this tool lets you easily set daily timers for tasks. Create a personalized morning brief or a bespoke newsletter with #Perplexity to streamline your routine. #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JO6...

With clients like #Albertsons, #Meijer, #Smart&Final — and earlier this year, landing a chain-wide rollout of its fresh produce technology at #StaterBros — San Francisco, Calif.-based grocery tech company #Afresh appears to be on a roll. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

Nearly 3/4 of shoppers can't differentiate between name-brand and private-label products. #Walgreens reports double-digit gains in its U.S. Pharmacy Division, and #Shell is reportedly in talks to acquire #bp. - #SupermarketNews & @cspdailynews.bsky.social www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tren...

#Albertsons continues negotiations with #uniongrocery workers in New Mexico, narrowly avoiding a strike. The Boise-based grocer also appears to be back on track in its home state after facing a separate strike over contract negotiations. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/retail-labor...

News organizations and labor unions representing #Kroger workers are already reporting store closures planned in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/store-closin...

My Perplexity AI video series is growing! Recently, I've explored searching SEC filings and built a custom industry analyst GPT in Perplexity Spaces. Check out my YouTube playlist to see what's possible! #PerplexityAI #AItools #TechTutorials www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Amazon announced the schedule for its biggest sale of the year, Amazon Prime Day, and this year the online retailer is doubling the sale to four days (July 8-11). The sale will feature grocery and gasoline deals. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

Did you know that now you can search filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission using Perplexity? They added the new tool about a week and a half ago. Check out my YouTube tutorial on how to access this powerful tool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awkm...