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08/04/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Billions of dollars in food wasted annually thanks to “use by” date on food labels

Over a billion tons of food is wasted every year, and the cause may lie in the label. Norbert Wilson, Professor of Food Policy in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, asserts that “use by” food dates are to blame for food waste. Of food waste, Wilson has theorized that consumers buy food […]

03/13/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Whole Foods under fire from angry vendors as retail “racket” snubs small-scale manufacturers

Whole Foods Market claims to be part of an “interdependent business ecosystem,” dependent on the many thousands of suppliers it says it views as allies. In discussing its partnerships with suppliers, the company’s mission statement notes, “We listen compassionately, we think carefully, and we always seek win-win relationships with everyone we do business with.” There […]

02/13/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Whole Foods’ fragile workers driven “to tears” over just-in-time inventory system put in place by Amazon

Millennials around the U.S. have garnered a reputation for their aversion to the American ethos of hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. The cries of Whole Foods workers, who are now self-imploding under the increased and more efficient work demands put in place by Amazon, are surely proof of that. Indeed, what […]

01/22/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Shelves stripped bare at Whole Foods stores across America as supply chain logistics crater

Imagine going to your local grocery store and being greeted by empty shelves, with item after item on your shopping list nowhere to be found. That might be par for the course if you live in Venezuela, but well-stocked stores are something that most Americans take for granted, particularly those who shop in upscale stores. […]

12/04/2017 / By Ralph Flores

Program yourself: Eating an apple before shopping for groceries leads to far healthier food purchases

Walking down the aisle of the grocery can be a daunting task for anyone. For some people, it’s next to impossible to stay away from the snack bar — it’s like your feet are forced to go there! Did you ever wonder how to get away from that? Researchers at Cornell University may have found […]

08/28/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Food samples given away at grocery stores rely on “hacking” the brains of consumers with a clever influence strategy

If you’ve ever gone to a supermarket and taken a free sample of one of the store’s products – maybe a slice of cheese or a small cup of soup, for example – then chances are somebody tried to hack into your brain. Of course, “hacked” in this sense doesn’t mean using some kind of […]

08/01/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Meet Tally, the grocery store shelf auditing robot that’s going to put thousands of low-wage grocery workers out of a job

Losing our jobs to robots is no longer a topic of vague interest; it is now a very real situation, one further evidenced by the introduction of Tally, the newest automated shelf-auditing and analytics system slated to hit grocery stores soon. Developed by Simbe Robotics, Tally is the world’s first robot to capture, report, and […]

04/15/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Stock up: More and more supermarkets are now carrying bulk foods

The growing interest in natural products and home cooking have prompted big-name grocers to embrace bulk to stick out among the competition. Grocers such as Hy-Vee and H-E-B have begun offering a variety of food items in bins located in their stores’ organic aisles. “These stores are starting to embrace bulk,” Diane Sheehan, Director of […]

08/19/2015 / By Carol Young

Top 10 tricks used by grocery stores to boost their profits by selling you junk

Grocery stores are like mazes with profit as their end goal. They are full of strategies designed to get you to fill your cart with more than you may ever need. Grocery stores target shoppers to get them to try different products; their advertisement and placement of products attempts to trick you into buying more. For […]

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