Trusted Insight Trends Blog

Grocery is starting to get better at grab-and-go prepared foods, putting their best food forward as they step into a millennial-driven trend that sees an increased demand for clean and convenient mealtime options.

Grocers can’t wait to go green, and not in the environmentally-friendly sustainable way we all think. No, grocers are hot to trot when it comes to cannabis.

You’d need a devoted weekly magazine to cover all the news coming out of Amazon’s many (many) products, services, revenue streams, and dramas. Their streaming channel is producing some of the best content out there (talking about you, Mrs. Maisel), apparently they are going to rebuild health care from the ground up, and  New York’s governor is basically doing his best John Cusack Say Anything impression outside Bezos’s door.

Grocery shopping ain’t what it used to be. With omnichannel and digital-only challengers threatening legacy grocery’s status quo, operators are racing to build out their omnichannel operations, ranging from in-store pickup of digitally ordered items (click and collect) to rapid grocery delivery (Amazon’s got it down to 2 hours or less).

Grocers beware, Aldi is coming for you, your margins, and your customers (protect your millennials!).  The German discounter, which currently operates 1,800 stores in 35 states, was just named Retailer of the Year by Supermarket News, its second such victory in the past four years.