Christine LaFave Grace
Editor
Contact ChristineChristine LaFave Grace covers Walmart, Target and other Midwestern grocery retailers as editor at Winsight Grocery Business. Her 15+ years of experience in B2B publishing includes five years spent as managing editor of Putman Media’s Plant Services magazine. At Putman Media, she co-founded the Influential Women in Manufacturing program and the Manufacturing Tomorrow’s Workforce podcast. As a B2B editor and reporter, LaFave Grace has covered the manufacturing/industrial production, healthcare and foodservice industries; she also spent two years covering the fast-casual restaurant industry and the U.K. and Canadian foodservice markets for Winsight-owned Technomic. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University-Bloomington and lives in Wheaton, IL, with her family.
Articles by
Christine LaFave Grace
Page 1Fresh innovation is essential
The biggest risk for grocery retailers in managing their fresh departments for 2023 and beyond is not deliberately innovating within the department, IRI’s Jonna Parker suggests.
Competing for fresh-perimeter dollars
Consumers are shifting where they’re buying their fresh-perimeter items, stretching their budgets by buying less meat and fish and choosing private labels more often. But fresh remains a top priority as they cope with inflation at 40-year highs.