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...

#Target shareholders stand pat on DEI pushback. Balkar Management Group has acquired 13 gas stations from Consumers Oil Corp. And UNFI is making progress following a cyberattack. - #SupermarketNews & @cspdailynews.bsky.social www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tren...

The pilot is #Albertsons' latest effort to boost its retail media network initiative, AMC, which was established in 2021 to provide a digital marketing platform for CPG companies that gives them access to over 100M shoppers. #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

Want to supercharge your workflow and interact with AI in real time? This video dives into #Google's latest in #AI integration, showing you how to have live conversations with AI tools ( #Gemini & #GoogleAIStudio) directly within your web browser and other programs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbCU...

#Amazon’s new grocery business leadership team includes #WholeFoods executives. EV adoption interest is at its lowest point in years. And #DonaldTrump supporters are calling for a #Walmart boycott. - #SupermarketNews & @cspdailynews.bsky.social www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tren...

A loss in the #Mondelēz case could be the private-label grocer’s biggest legal setback because of its potential to establish a precedent in the U.S. that could upend the company’s strategy on grocery. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/private-labe...

Arkansas, Idaho, and Utah have joined the growing list of states given approval by the Department of Agriculture to remove sugary drinks and candy for the list of acceptable purchases through SNAP. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/legislation-...

Online #grocery delivery is having a moment, jumping 70% year over year in May, with monthly sales reaching $3.9B and double-digit growth in order frequency, according to the #BrickMeetsClick Grocery Shopper Survey sponsored by #Mercatus. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

For the first time in 10 years, I subscribed to the print edition of a newspaper. No pop-ups, no fighting in the comments, no auto-playing of videos. Just me, my coffee and the printed word. Try it! Not an ad!

#Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd are reportedly holding secret merger talks. - #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/mergers-acqu...

#Walmart expands its drone delivery program to five more cities. The NACS Foundation launches its First Responder of the Year Award. And shoppers are starting to blame the government for high #grocery prices. #SupermarketNews @cspdailynews.bsky.social www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tren...

Government policies & actions were considered the biggest culprit for higher grocery prices, according to a survey from the #FeedbackGroup. On a scale of 1-5, the government policies and actions category received a 4.11, up from 3.86 in 2024. #SupermarketNews www.supermarketnews.com/consumer-tre...

Unionized #Kroger workers across Indiana have rejected a tentative contract with the grocery chain, sending negotiators back to the bargaining table and raising the potential for a statewide strike of some 8,000 employees. - #SupermarketNews #union #UFCW www.supermarketnews.com/retail-labor...

You've got an interview audio, but which #AI tool will give you the best #transcription? In this video, I put four leading AI tools head-to-head: #Otter.ai, #Perplexity, #Gemini & #NotebookLM. I'll compare their accuracy, speed & performance. #Journalism #newspaper www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqW-...

A little less than two years ago, if you visited an H-E-B in Austin, Texas, you might have received help from a clerk not even old enough to buy a six-pack. Today, that clerk, Thomas Fugate, leads the U.S. counterterrorism program known as CP3 at DHS. www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tech...

#Safeway & #Albertsons workers represented by UFCW Local 7 in Colorado have approved authorization for an unfair labor practices strike. #UFCW and #Teamsters workers in Wash. & Calif. are planning to take strike authorization votes. #SupermarketNews #grocery www.supermarketnews.com/retail-labor...

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

Sam's Club is jumping on board the clean label movement. Gill Energy has acquired DUTCHESS TERMINALS INC. And Kroger shareholders are calling for the company to increase employees’ wages. - Supermarket News & CSP Daily News www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tren...