Retail food safety is a critical component of the nation’s public health infrastructure and serves as the last checkpoint before food reaches consumers. Here, federal support for state, local, tribal, ...

Hunger is on the rise. In September, the USDA released its annual estimate of food insecurity for 2023 showing an increase to 47.4 million Americans — that’s 1 in 7 people — who are food insecure, the ...

Growth areas include premium, health and wellbeing, and products boasting simple and clean ingredients. Texas Born (TXB) recently expanded the chain's private label line of fresh, locally sourced ...

Food retailers are finding that they can generate outsized returns by making sustainability investments in five value-chain segments: processing, manufacturing, food services, restaurants and retail, ...

Prepared foods is one of the fastest-growing retail departments, as consumers increasingly turn to their local grocery store for convenient, high-quality alternatives to traditional restaurant fare.

While dry grocery remained the top-selling category, accounting for 38% of sales last year, fresh departments collectively contributed a significant 42%. This includes meat and produce, each ...

The food retail industry, a core component of the consumer staples sector, has produced a wide dispersion of results in 2025, with notable winners and laggards emerging as the broader group struggled ...

ST. LOUIS — Consumer packaged goods (CPGs) manufacturers are honing their value proposition via a blend of pricing and innovation, yet their strategies don’t always align with those of retailers, ...

WASHINGTON — Three food retail trade groups peg the cost of implementing state waivers to disqualify certain foods and beverages for purchase via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

Retailers and food manufacturers are banding together to develop more on-trend and innovative private-label products, as the market sheds the perception that they are just cheaper alternatives to ...

The next time you walk down the produce aisle (with your kid in tow) picking out fruits and vegetables to feed your family, ask yourself the question I ask myself when I do the same: “Does this ...