Consumer Insights
Health and wellness space is a world of opportunities
How have consumers' attitudes and behaviors about health and wellness changed after 3 years of living in a pandemic?
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Management
The most practical way to promote diversity and inclusion isn’t what you think
Your supply chain is an overlooked, business-essential area to improve diversity and inclusion.
Strategy
Creative destruction: Eat or be eaten
The idea of creative destruction means that businesses are constantly being formed and constantly folding. The fate of your business isn't inevitable.
Marketing Strategy
How brands can adapt to the changing in-store model
Brand can adapt to changing consumer shopping habits to bring them in stores -- or meet them where they are located.
Consumer Insights
Online grocery shopping today: An emotional hurdle that may be too difficult to cross
While shopping online for groceries is on the uptick, The Hartman Group’s Food Shopping in America 2017 report finds that it has yet to detract from the number of in-person trips to traditional brick-and-mortar food retailers.
Food Retail
Report update: Brushing up on the evolution of digital food shopping
FMI and Nielsen teamed up to report on the state of digital retail in the grocery industry. Find out how SmartBrief's coverage has kept up with the report's findings.
Marketing Strategy
Are you ready for high-tech grocery stores?
Here are a few of the major changes affecting the grocery industry, and some thoughts on how food marketers can respond to these changes.
Careers
Tips for boosting your leadership self-esteem
Self-esteem, properly understood, is a quality that separates successful leaders from the rest.
Food
How dietitians help propel KIND Snacks’ nutritional goals
KIND Snacks has developed its Nutrition Collective to ensure that dietitians and consumers work together toward wellness.
Food
Top 10: PepsiCo’s plans, customers’ favorite eateries, Wal-Mart’s top sellers
SmartBrief readers were drawn to news about the latest innovation in overnight oats, as well as stories illuminating consumers' favorite eateries.
Food
Top 10: Kraft Heinz, The French Laundry and the annual Beard awards
Top 10: Kraft Heinz, The French Laundry and the annual Beard awards
Food Retail
Should groceries have sommeliers on staff?
Having an expert staff a grocery’s wine department can boost sales for both the wine brands and the store itself.
Food
Top 10: Amazon’s best-selling snacks, Wal-Mart’s c-store plans
Amazon was featured in two of the top ten most-clicked food and beverage stories this week.
Food
Top 10: Futuristic snack food bag, Campbell CEO’s vision, restaurant and grocery trends
New technology, changes in consumers' eating habits and restaurant trends were popular with readers this week.
Sponsored
Using smart city technology to power local economic development
Use technology to capture more revenue for your city
Edtech
5 edtech trends to watch
Expert Jason Ohler says to watch these trends that are changing how we live, teach and learn.
Management
Five Below’s growth strategy? Double down on culture.
“You can’t leave your team culture to chance. Culture and values are too important to the business."
Food Retail
Can ride-hailing services help retailers crack the code of grocery delivery?
Wal-Mart is partnering with on-demand ride services Uber and Lyft to deliver grocery orders. Will ride-hailing services help retailers crack the code of grocery delivery?
Food Retail
Food retailers take the mobile experience to the next level
How are food retailers taking their mobile presences to the next level to attract shoppers in a crowded field?
Food
Candy-flavored Oreos, deep-fried Twinkies and a simpler McDonald’s menu
Most-clicked stories this week include Swedish Fish Oreos, Deep Fried Twinkies and Wal-Mart's culinary lab
Management
“I’m not a leader, I’m an instigator”
An interview with Erin Sexson, senior vice president of global sustainability for the Innovation Center at U.S. Dairy’s Sustainability Counci
Food
Top 10: Labeling laws, labor bills and trendy new flavors
A GMO labeling law, an overtime bill and supermarket growth plans rated with readers this week
Food
Wal-Mart, Chick-fil-A’s popular app and B&G’s bold acquisition plan were popular this week
Wal-Mart made the list of SmartBrief readers' top stories twice this week -- its new Neightborhhod Market store design was third and a story about its new approach to fresh foods rounded out the top 10.
Food
Top 10: The fate of GMO labeling, news from Coca-Cola, Pinnacle Foods and Wal-Mart
The fate of the federal GMO bill was the most popular story amongst SmartBrief readers this past week, with news about big companies like...
Food
Top 10: Restaurants, food brands experiment with new flavors
Food and beverage readers sought out news about new products, menu innovations and changing food strategies this week. Take a look at the most recent top-clicked list.
Food
Top 10: Growth plans, brands exploring new avenues trending this week
(Photo: Flickr user Bill Rice) SmartBrief readers were drawn to stories about growth plans of food retailers and restaurant chains alike this week, as...
Food
McDonald’s, In-N-Out and ConAgra in this week’s top news
Top news stories this week included quickservice restaurant news involving two big players in the industry: In-N-Out and McDonald’s – as In-N-Out finds a...
Food
All-day McMuffins, marketing messages and grocery stores’ latest moves
Photo: Flickr user Albert Lynn A restaurant update led the list of most-read stories by SmartBrief’s ffood and beverage readers last week. McDonald’s CEO...
Food
Unsold A&P stores cause worry, Whole Foods invests in Calif. eatery and more in this week’s top news
SmartBrief readers this week continued to follow the story of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. auctioning off its stores. Monday’s report that...
HR
Resources for Reviewing HR Metrics
This post is sponsored by HR Metrics and Analytics In an increasingly competitive global market, the quality and effectiveness of your company’s workforce is...
Brands & Campaigns
Andy’s Answers: How Wal-Mart uses data to improve its reputation via social media
Umang Shah has a unique position as the social media leader at Wal-Mart. His job is not to push marketing or earn new customers...
Restaurant and Foodservice
How Kraft, PepsiCo, Wal-Mart and Walgreen engage women leaders
Donaldson, Lukasik, Stein and Wolfe speak at an FMI Connect session Despite the fact that women are underrepresented in leadership, organizations that hire more...
Brands & Campaigns
Andy’s Answers: How Wal-Mart is engaging massive audiences online
My company, GasPedal, recently hosted BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media in Minneapolis. The fantastic event featured eight case studies on corporate social...
Brands & Campaigns
Andy’s Answers: How Wal-Mart engages with employees using social media
With more than a million Wal-Mart Stores employees nationwide, the company’s Lisa Thurber and her team are tasked with communicating with this massive workforce in...
Leadership
Sustainability lessons from Wal-Mart’s former CEO
The corporate sustainability realm has few conversations that do not eventually turn to Wal-Mart Stores. It’s nearly impossible to be neutral about the retail...
Strategy
Explore the benefits of customer and supplier partnerships
Many companies have discovered the virtue of partnering. When they don’t have all the skills or resources needed to truly delight customers, it makes...
Strategy
“Conscious Capitalism”: A higher calling for corporations
Something’s stinking up corporate America. On Friday, a 3% decline in shares of Wal-Mart drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average into negative territory. This...
Leadership
Live from #NAWBOWBC: Why engaging women just makes sense
“Start Something” was the theme throughout the NAWBO Women’s Business Conference, and it was clear during the “Start Furthering Women Entrepreneurs” panel that recognition...
Brands & Campaigns
Grading retailers’ social back-to-school promotions
With most students back in the classroom for a new school year, now is a good time to examine what a few major players in...
Strategy
Global behavioral management: The toolbox of a global leader
All too often, business leaders find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Globalization has, once again, placed them in this familiar predicament....
Food
Live from #OPENNYT: Is it time to join the evolution?
“Brand” can be a tough concept for business owners to get their heads around, Red Slice founder Maria Ross told attendees at breakout session...
Leadership
ARPA-E makes the case for business-first government programs
New energy technologies and sustainability must prove their business value through efforts such as the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy, which can “fund efforts that...