Despite inflation, dollar sales in bakery are up almost 12% from last year, according to IDDBA Marketplace Report data from June, indicating that the instore bakery has indeed bounced back from COVID, said Paul Baker, founder of Manchester, UK-based St Pierre Bakery.
The instore bakery has bounced back post-COVID, but it’s not the same department as pre-pandemic, said Marjorie Proctor, marketing and design specialist for Conyers, Ga.-based Dover Food Retail / Hillphoenix.
Despite a drop in fresh seafood sales due to inflation in recent months, grocers are banking on shoppers’ love for grilling, boils and bakes to boost seafood sales this summer.
Consumers for decades have relied on nutrition labeling far less than is generally believed, said Robert Lilienfeld, executive director at Sustainable Packaging Research, Information, and Networking Group, Broomfield, Colo.
An unprecedented combination of factors affecting the production and movement of foods around the world is having a major impact on meat and poultry markets, and retailers and their supply partners won’t likely see that changing anytime soon.
Feed demand in China is forecast to rise in marketing year 2022-23 due to recovering demand for hog feed, according to a Global Agricultural Information Network report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Commissaries, retailers and suppliers are all scrambling to adapt to a series of recently or soon-to-be-passed laws aimed at cutting the amount of packaging waste in the US food system.
As part of the Metrics, Management, and Monitoring: An Investigation of Pasture and Rangeland Soil Health and its Drivers, also known as the 3M project, Noble Research Institute LLC has begun field work on a $19 million research initiative.
The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) granted a Michigan State University (MSU) research team $769,000 to develop a biosensor test for foodborne pathogens.