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Why Grocery Stores Still Stumble With Fresh Prepared Food — And What 2026 Trends Reveal #Marketing #FreshFoods #Meals #Dinner #PreparedFood #Ready2Eat #HeatNEat #Grocerant #Foodservice #Grocery grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/why-...
Why Grocery Stores Still Stumble With Fresh Prepared Food — And What 2026 Trends Reveal
Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared foods have been the single strongest growth driver across retail foodservice for nearly a decade...
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February 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Tiptoe, Toast, Tip: Why Toast Must Ease Into the Drive-Thru #Restaurants #Toast #Visa #PayPal #Food #Grocerant #Deli #Marketing grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/tipp...
Tipping at the Drive Thru Good Idea or Bad Idea
By any metric, Toast is on a heater. The Boston tech player that already powers roughly one in five independent restaurants has been stack...
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February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Price Is the Magnet: The Grocerant Guru® on the 2026 Price–Value–Service Equilibrium #CStores #Grocerant #Restaurants #Grocery #Food #Beverage grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/pric...
Price Is the Magnet: The Grocerant Guru® on the 2026 Price–Value–Service Equilibrium
In 2026, the North Star for food retail is no longer novelty. It is permission to purchase . Consumers are signaling loudly that they wi...
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February 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Love Beyond the 14th: How to Turn One Perfect Valentine’s Meal into a Week of Profitable Romance #Restaurants #Grocerant #CStore #Grocery #Foodservice #Takeout #Food #Beverage #Valentinesday grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/love...
Love Beyond the 14th: How to Turn One Perfect Valentine’s Meal into a Week of Profitable Romance
Valentine’s Day may be circled on the calendar, but the consumer mindset it unlocks does not shut off at midnight. When a dinner, dessert, o...
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February 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Grocerant Mix & Match Meal Components Include Coffee, Tea, Beer & Wine #Food #Beverage #Grocerant #Restaurant #Deli #C-store #Takeout #Foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/groc...
Grocerant Mix & Match Meal Components Include Coffee, Tea, Beer & Wine
The fault lines between retail foodservice channels are no longer visible to shoppers. Consumers move seamlessly among quick-service resta...
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February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Fiber Takes Center Stage Across Food Channels in 2026 #Restaurants #CStores #ServiceDeli #FreshFoods #FastFood #Takeout #DriveThru #CPG #Pizza #Coffee #Donuts #Food #Grocerant #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/fibe...
Fiber Takes Center Stage Across Food Channels in 2026
In 2026, “fiber-focused innovation” has emerged as one of the most consequential food trends shaping consumer choices and product developm...
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February 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Value Is the New Premium: How Strategic Pricing Is Rebuilding Food Brand Equity #Restaurants #Grocery #CStores #Grocerant #Foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/valu...
Value Is the New Premium: How Strategic Pricing Is Rebuilding Food Brand Equity
For more than a decade, food and beverage brands leaned heavily on premiumization, pack-size shrink, and convenience narratives to defend ...
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February 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Why 4x4 Capital Buying Bob Evans Restaurants Makes Strategic Sense—A Grocerant Guru® Perspective #Restaurants #Grocerant #Foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/why-...
Why 4x4 Capital Buying Bob Evans Restaurants Makes Strategic Sense—A Grocerant Guru® Perspective
By any historical measure, Bob Evans is not just a restaurant brand—it is a food system brand. Founded in 1948 in Ohio, Bob Evans was bor...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Event Marketing Still Matters: Why Valentine’s Day Proves Timely Food Messaging Wins #Food #Beverage #FreshFoods #Restaurants #CStores #Grocery #Deli #Foodservice #FoodMarketing #FoodSales grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/even...
Event Marketing Still Matters: Why Valentine’s Day Proves Timely Food Messaging Wins
In a persistently challenging macroeconomic climate, Valentine’s Day once again proves that event marketing—when done with relevance and res...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Last-Minute Super Bowl Party Foods to Pick Up — A Grocerant Guru® Field Guide #Food #SuperBowlFood #FastFood #DriveThruFood #PickUpPartyFood #Snacks #Meals #Appetizers #Grocerant grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/last...
Last-Minute Super Bowl Party Foods to Pick Up — A Grocerant Guru® Field Guide
The Super Bowl remains the single largest food-at-home and food-away-from-home consumption day in the U.S. According to industry tracking,...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Top 10 Superbowl Menu Items from the Grocerant Guru® #SuperbowlFood #GameDaySnacks #Restaurants #CStores #FreshFoods #LastMinuteSuperbowlMenu #Grocerant #Beer #wine #football grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/top-...
Top 10 Superbowl Menu Items from the Grocerant Guru®
1. Buffalo Wings — The Original Game Day MVP Buffalo wings are the definitive Super Bowl staple: more than 1.3 billion wings are consume...
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February 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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C Stores Are Becoming America’s Fastest Growing Restaurant Competitors—And the Data Proves It #CStores #Grocerant #Food #Restaurant #Grocery grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/c-st...
C Stores Are Becoming America’s Fastest Growing Restaurant Competitors—And the Data Proves It
For decades, convenience stores were defined by fuel, fountain drinks, and grab‑and‑go snacks. Today, they are redefining the competitive ...
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February 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Is It Time to Keep a Bad Idea From the Public? Albertsons vs. Kroger #Grocery #Walmart #Aldi #Lidl #CostCo #Publix #Kroger #Albertsons grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/is-i...
Is It Time to Keep a Bad Idea From the Public? Albertsons vs. Kroger
When Kroger and Albertsons agreed to a $24.6 billion merger in 2022, the companies framed it as a scale-driven solution to inflation, comp...
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February 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Curating the Future of Local Restaurant Commerce #Restaurants #CStores #Grocerant #Deli #Grocery #Beer #Wine #Liquor #Beef #Chicken #Pizza #Coffee #Burgers #Foodservice #Takeout #Dinner #Snacks grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/cura...
Curating the Future of Local Restaurant Commerce: Perspective on Curate, Instant Apps, and the Long Arc of Foodservice Technology
From Cash Registers to Clicks: A Brief Historical Context Foodservice technology has always evolved in response to friction according to...
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February 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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7-Eleven Focus on Service, Value, Messaging Is a Winning Formula #Food #Beverage #Marketing #CStores grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/7-el...
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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When Roll-Ups Go Rotten: Why Multi-Brand Restaurant Companies Keep Failing #Restaurants #CStores grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/02/when...
When Roll-Ups Go Rotten: Why Multi-Brand Restaurant Companies Keep Failing
For more than three decades, Wall Street has tried to “financial-engineer” growth in restaurants by stitching together multiple concepts u...
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February 1, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go Are Gone Want to Know Why? #Grocery #Restaurant #Grocerant #CStore #Amazon #WholeFoods #FreshFood #Organic #Price #WholePaycheck grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/amaz...
Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go Are Gone A Historical Retrospective on Amazon’s Grocery Experiments & the Road Ahead
On January 27, 2026, Amazon confirmed what many analysts had quietly anticipated: its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store banners are being...
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January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Tipping in the Grocerant World: The Real Price of Food, Labor, and Convenience #Restaurants #Grocerant grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/tipp...
Tipping in the Grocerant World: The Real Price of Food, Labor, and Convenience
Tipping is no longer a social afterthought—it is a structural component of the modern food economy. As restaurants, grocery stores, conven...
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January 30, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Loyalty, Price Pressure, and the Fight for Subway’s Legacy Guest #Restaurants #Grocerant #CStores #Deli #Marketing #Pricing #Menu #Franchisees #Subway grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/loya...
Loyalty, Price Pressure, and the Fight for Subway’s Legacy Guest
From the Grocerant Guru® vantage point—where food marketing, competitive dynamics, and price elasticity intersect—the current Subway “Sub...
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January 29, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Gen Z, and the Reinvention of Food Shopping: A Grocerant Guru® Perspective #Food #Beverage #SJU #UCF #UCLA #UW #WSU #USF #UG grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/gen-...
Gen Z, and the Reinvention of Food Shopping: A Grocerant Guru® Perspective
Gen Z’s renewed pursuit of homeownership is not just reshaping housing markets—it is quietly but profoundly reprogramming how, where, and ...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Metabolic Health Moves to Center Store: Why the Next Grocery Power Shift Is Already Underway #Grocerant #Restaurant #CStore #Food #Health #Beverage #Foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/meta...
Metabolic Health Moves to Center Store: Why the Next Grocery Power Shift Is Already Underway
At FMI Midwinter in Chula Vista, California, one message cut through the noise: metabolic health is no longer a fringe wellness concept—it...
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January 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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A Small Change That Saves Time, Protects Margins, and Signals Hospitality #Restaurant #Grocerant #Deli #CStores #Grocery grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-sm...
A Small Change That Saves Time, Protects Margins, and Signals Hospitality
Delivery platforms like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub have permanently altered the economics of foodservice. They drive incremental sal...
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January 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Feeding Readiness: How AAFES’ BE FIT 360 Program Advances Global Military Wellness in 2026 #Restaurants #Grocerant #Food #Takeout #Pizza #Coffee #Franchisees #BetterforyouFood grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/feed...
Feeding Readiness: How AAFES’ BE FIT 360 Program Advances Global Military Wellness in 2026
As wellness, nutrition, and performance continue to shape how Americans think about food in 2026, few organizations operate at the scale—o...
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January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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A Century-Old American Icon Meets Industrial Scale #Restaurants #HotDogs #FoodSales #Beef #Pork #Chicken #foodmarketing #Branding grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-ce...
A Century-Old American Icon Meets Industrial Scale
Smithfield Foods has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Nathan’s Famous in an all-cash transaction valuing the iconic ...
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January 23, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Investing in Culture: Why Starbucks, Why Now #Coffee #Restaurants #CStores #Deli #Grocerant #Starbucks grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/inve...
Investing in Culture: Why Starbucks, Why Now
In foodservice, culture is not a soft concept—it is an operational lever according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based ...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:08 PM