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Executive Briefing
Consumer behavior is ‘difficult to predict at best right now’
Notes from Target and Walmart earnings. Also: Robot salads, Drizly data, and Instacart’s early vision for AI-native grocery shopping.
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Executive Briefing
Foxtrot has a new CEO. What’s changing and what isn’t?
And: A few notes from Aesop’s $2.5 billion sale.
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From the Editor
Introducing the
Consumer Trends
Food & Wellness Special Report
We’re at an inflection point: Health is wealth, and food is medicine.
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From the Editor
Introducing the
Consumer Trends
2023 Report
The “Covid economy” mostly ended in 2022. But a high level of economic uncertainty continues into 2023.
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Executive Briefing
Supermarket smash!
Thinking through Kroger’s $25 billion deal for Albertsons. Also: A subscription pilot for unlimited (great!) coffee in LA. And a simpler plan for Instagram commerce.
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Executive Briefing
Online grocery shopping is a pandemic-era behavior that actually stuck
Thrive Market, the Whole Foods of e-commerce, now has 1.2 million members. How does it fit into the future of grocery? Also: Great Jones’ new ‘Pantry Pals’.
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Brands
Foxtrot is the store that every neighborhood deserves
Can Chicago’s upmarket convenience chain scale across the country?
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From the Editor
Introducing the
Consumer Trends
2022 Mid-Year Update
The Covid-19 pandemic is not over. But “economic Covid” is, mostly.
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From the Editor
Introducing the
Consumer Trends
2022 report
2020 shocked the system. In 2021, we acclimated. Now what?
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Executive Briefing
The business of Whole30
Melissa Urban is turning her elimination diet into a lifestyle brand with an increasingly complex business, from licensing to CPG.
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Executive Briefing
What momentum looks like
Also: Chase is buying The Infatuation. And an update on Blue Bottle’s oat-milk-by-default experiment.
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Executive Briefing
Is 15-minute grocery delivery a brand or a feature?
Look out, Safeway. Gorillas is coming.
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Executive Briefing
What will Instacart become?
The online grocery service has a new CEO, with a massive opportunity — and big questions — ahead.
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Executive Briefing
Is the future of coffee in your freezer?
Cometeer is a startup that sells meticulously crafted — and surprisingly good — frozen coffee in pods. Will enough people care?
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Executive Briefing
Cities aren’t over
But they’ll be different. It’s like a software update.
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Executive Briefing
Why Jon & Vinny’s LA restaurant group just bought a tiny grocery chain
In the Instacart era, “we feel that the neighborhood grocery is going to become important again.”
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Executive Briefing
Unbundling the grocery cart
The pandemic changed the way millions of households shop for food, forever. Especially mine.
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Executive Briefing
Architect Barbara Bestor on how home designs are changing in the era of coronavirus
And: An ode to the Erewhon beverage case.
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Executive Briefing
The summer of outdoor commerce
Also: PepsiCo’s big DTC launch: Performance art or actual strategy?
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Executive Briefing
Why Trader Joe’s refuses to sell groceries online
Does that still pass the smell test?
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