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Technology

Delivery Startups Plot New Competition for Instacart and Shipt

The Lempert Report: The pandemic has provided new opportunities for food delivery startups such as Brooklyn's Farm to People.

Retail Foodservice

Restaurants and Supermarkets Join Forces in Pandemic

The Lempert Report: How SpartanNash hustled to help distressed restaurants.

Retailers

Pandemic Triggers Compromises in Costco’s ‘Magic’

By Jon Springer on May 29, 2020

Traffic slowness, department shutdowns and economic distress render the retailer a “victim of its own success,” one analyst said.

Wholesalers & Distributors

How the Covid Effect Is Shaking Out at SpartanNash

By Kat Martin on May 29, 2020

The company invested heavily in sanitation and reward measures while seeing e-commerce and private label sales go up significantly.

Industry Partners

Some Good Grocery News: Feeding Food Banks and Pay Raises

By WGB Staff on May 29, 2020

This week's Some Good Grocery News celebrates grocers who are raising important funds for food banks and kids with cancer.

Retailers

Crisis Driving Shoppers Back to Dollar Channel

By Jon Springer on May 28, 2020

Officials of Dollar General and Dollar Tree say the pandemic drove new visitors who were impressed with their improved store offerings.

Retailers

COVID Sales Spark Dramatic Upswing at SpartanNash

By Jon Springer on May 27, 2020

All three divisions of the retailer and wholesale distributor see Q1 sales spike, resetting fiscal outlook.

Retailers

Q&A: The Grocery Analyst Who Became a Grocery Stockboy

By Jon Springer on May 27, 2020

Bryan Roberts spent more than 15 years studying the grocery industry as an analyst before a restructuring sent him to the front lines of the COVID crisis.

CPG

Carbonated Beverages Have a Problem

By Phil Lempert on May 27, 2020

The Lempert Report: COVID-19 has forced a decrease in ethanol production and increased the cost of CO2 used in foods and beverages.

Retailers

NGA Goes Virtual for Fall Executive Conference

By WGB Staff on May 27, 2020

The association’s annual leadership conference has shifted from an in-person event to a digital one that will be held Sept. 22-25.

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