June 03, 2020
Chris DuBuis is with IRI, a Chicago-based food research company. DuBuis tells producer Peter Tubbs, the lockdown has driven up sales from the cooler as shoppers look for different cuts that have value and they can prepare at home.
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June 01, 2020
To date, over 1,000 animal processing plants in the United States have seen COVID-19 infections among their employees. Twenty-six of those plants are in North Carolina, the second largest producer of pork by value, and the third largest producer of chicken.
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May 14, 2020
Companies like Kellogg, Hershey and Nestle are tapping the lessons of the last recession as they seek ways to keep newly frugal consumers from trading down
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May 13, 2020
Grocery shoppers’ purchasing behaviors may be changing because of high unemployment and economic uncertainty.
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May 06, 2020
Nowadays, “buy online pick up in store” is as normal as, well, doing groceries.
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May 01, 2020
A Chicago-based research firm just released a new tool to track coronavirus purchases.
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April 29, 2020
For the first time in the past two decades fluid milk posted an increase in retail dollar sales for the past 52-week period.
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April 29, 2020
Many weeks into the coronavirus crisis and the toilet paper shortage shows no signs of letting up.
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March 23, 2020
Worried Americans are scrambling to buy wellness products they think will protect against coronavirus. Some may do harm.
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March 11, 2020
The world is changing at pace and our preferences as consumers are more complex than they were a decade ago.
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March 09, 2020
Everyone's talking about the potential for artificial intelligence in the enterprise, but what's actually been achieved to date? Are the majority of companies comfortable with the technology and how it can be used, and are many already using it?
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February 05, 2020
Nishat Mehta, President, IRI Media Center of Excellence, improving the consumer experience through more relevant advertising.
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January 28, 2020
According to a report from analysts at Canalys, the worldwide smart speaker market grew by 187 per cent in the second quarter of 2018.
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January 10, 2020
"For a while it was a very good time to be brewing beer in Chicago . . . but for the last year, things flipped. Not all breweries are going to make it."
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January 10, 2020
Popularity of spiked seltzers like White Claw and Truly challenges beer makers to respond.
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January 07, 2020
Perdue Farms will start packaging some of its meat products in a more earth-friendly way with compostable foam made of cornstarch that disintegrates under running water.
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December 17, 2019
President and CEO of IRI, a big data technology company that uses advanced analytics to help companies grow their businesses.
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December 13, 2019
The world is changing at an incredible pace and consumer preferences are more complex than they were 10 years ago. The next generation of consumers are far more fickle, experimental and granular than those that went before. This makes it harder for all businesses, and retailer...
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November 05, 2019
The availability of legal cannabis products in the United States, including cannabis and hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD), is greater than ever, with consumer interest continuing to grow.
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November 04, 2019
Five years ago, soda giant went big into milk with novel formula—it paid off
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