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Ice Cream Brand Files for Bankruptcy After $23.8m Packaging Battle
A US ice cream brand sold through supermarkets has filed for bankruptcy after losing a major court battle over the design of its packaging. Rebel Creamery, known for its low-carb and keto-friendly ice cream,...
The Mass Market: Why the Most Successful Retailers Understand One Simple Rule
By Riad Beladi The biggest retail successes rarely come from trying to sell to everybody at any price. They come from understanding the mass market, offering value that millions of people can afford and...
The Consumer Has Learned to Trade Down — And Supermarkets May Never Be the Same
Years of food inflation have changed the way people shop. Consumers are comparing prices more carefully, experimenting with private-label products and becoming increasingly comfortable with discount supermarkets. The biggest question for the grocery industry...
Walmart Is Becoming More Than a Supermarket — And That Should Worry Every Grocery Competitor
Walmart’s biggest advantage may no longer be its size. It is the fact that groceries are only one part of the shopping relationship it has built with millions of American households. For decades, Walmart’s...
Kroger Has a Foot-Traffic Problem — Or Does It? The Numbers Tell Two Different Stories
America’s supermarket giant says more customers are coming through its doors. Analyst data suggests the opposite. Behind the disagreement is a much bigger question: are shoppers still choosing traditional supermarkets in the same way?...
Two Cases. Two Minutes. One Person: Delivering 1,000 Liters of Drinking Water an Hour
Portable Swedish water system keeps soldiers, firefighters and communities supplied when normal water supplies fail STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 19, 2026 – When a wildfire cuts off a community, a disaster damages a water network,...
Mercadona Has a Lidl Problem in Portugal — and the Next Battle Is Just Beginning
Spain’s Mercadona has built a powerful position in Portugal, but the latest figures suggest that Lidl is proving much harder to catch than expected. The real question is whether Mercadona can turn rapid expansion...
America’s Supermarkets Are Closing Stores — While Buying More Supermarkets
The US grocery industry is entering a strange new phase: retailers are getting bigger through acquisitions while becoming smaller on the ground. Something unusual is happening in American grocery retail. Supermarket groups are buying...
Mercadona’s 70 Robots: Is This the Supermarket Warehouse of the Future?
Spain’s supermarket giant is betting €54 million on automation. The bigger question is whether robots can finally solve one of grocery retail’s biggest problems: making online shopping work at scale. Mercadona has taken another...
The New Supermarket Shelf Is Invisible — And AI Decides What Goes on It
The next battle between supermarkets and brands may not be fought in the aisles. It may be fought inside the answers shoppers receive from AI. For more than a century, supermarkets understood one fundamental...