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How to avoid Avocado Hand, and more guacamole tips ahead of the big game

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It's time for my annual reminder of all the things consumers need to know to take advantage of the biggest avocado holiday of the year.

Amazon to expand grocery concept to Seattle area

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What’s going to be the *it* factor that sways consumers to break with their usual routine and shop Amazon Fresh instead?

Shopper Insights: Consumers aren’t the only ones who buy with their eyes

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How can retail shake-ups present opportunities for marketers?

Quick Look: Amazon Fresh, Naperville, IL

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This is the first location outside of California for the company, with all the tech bells and whistles you'd expect.

Five shopper behaviors the COVID-19 pandemic taught us

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To say it is hard to predict what will happen in the next 12 months is an understatement. With the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, retail settled into about a 10% increase in sales dollars over 2019, but that doesn’t come near to making up for the sales lost in the foodservice and institutional sectors.

Cosmic Crisp needs a little more fanfare, retail

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Y’all. How are we supposed to convince consumers to buy something premium like this if we’re not even trying?

See Buc-ee’s, the world’s largest convenience store

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As we've been publishing the Produce Blueprints November/December feature on convenience stores, I can't help but be a Texan about my favorite convenience store: Buc-ee's. 

Virtual events leave us starving for connection

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“I’m dying a slow breakout session death,” is how one industry colleague put it, and I can't come up with a better way to describe my yearning for an in-person event.

Shopper Insights 2020: How demographics guide new product trials

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It's not surprising that 64% have tried a pomegranate, and more than 50% have tried dates, papayas, and figs, but what about other items? 

Pinkglow vs. Honeyglow pineapples – a review

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Turns out it might have backfired to have an amazingly delicious, perfectly tart and ripe Honeyglow compared to the milder flavor of a Pinkglow, which has been described as "cotton candy-like."