New York, NY — Lidl, a German discount grocery chain, is opening its first stores in the US with prices up to 50 percent cheaper than local competitors. Lidl has 10,000 locations in 27 countries with another German based chain, Aldi being its top competitor. 20 new stores will open...
Imagine you are in your store and the phone rings. The voice on the other end of the line says, “Hello, I’m standing in the store at the probiotics cooler and I don’t know which one to buy.” Of course, you accept without much surprise the fact that people are...
A shareholder resolution urging The Kroger Company to separate the CEO and chair of the Board roles will be presented by Lisa Lindsley, Capital Markets Advisor for SumOfUs, an international corporate watchdog at The Kroger Company’s Annual General Meeting of shareholders on June 22. For decades, Kroger CEOs have also...
According to the Organic Trade Association organic food sales have now reached $40 billion annually, accounting for approximately 5% of the total U.S. food sales. An unprecedented Nielsen's study (2015 – 2016) surveying 100,000 households in the 48 contiguous states reported that the national average for organic sales jumped from...
A new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology suggest consumers with concerns of a food allergy are often confused with labels that say “may contain” or “manufactured on shared equipment.” The online study, which 6,684 consumers from the U.S and Canada participated in, was conducted by...
Dana Point, CA—On Thursday, October 27, at the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) annual symposium, The Conference, the trade group presented some telling results from its 2016 CRN Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements. The results show that among consumers, confidence in the safety, quality and effectiveness of dietary supplements remains high,...
