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1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Ashley Rodriguez |Alex Bitter |Henry Blodget

Artificial dyes and other food ingredients are getting more scrutiny these days. Chobani's founder welcomes it — but says the movement could create problems for food makers. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has talked about removing some artificial ingredients from foods, both before and after he became a member of President Donald Trump's cabinet this year. It's one of the priorities of Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" movement, known as MAHA, for short.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Ashley Rodriguez |Alex Bitter |Henry Blodget

Amazon's Prime Day this year will be twice as long as in 2024. It could be a welcome sight for shoppers worried about tariffs. The retail giant said Tuesday that this summer's Prime Day deals event will last four days from July 8 to 11, compared to two days last year. The discounts will apply to a range of products, from school supplies to electronics to snacks, Amazon said. The company plans to release deals on specific brands each day at midnight Pacific time.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Ashley Rodriguez |Dominick Reuter |Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert |Alex Bitter

On paper, Target is struggling. Shopping in some of its stores offers clues as to why. The retailer has reported lackluster financial performance over the past two years. Its sales have struggled to grow while competitors like Walmart and Costco have posted strong gains. The Minneapolis-based retailer's growth soared during the pandemic years, but it has since reported declining comparable sales in five of the last eight quarters. Visits are also down this year.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Ashley Rodriguez |Alex Bitter |Henry Blodget

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Linda Gommel, the CEO of Lucerne Valley Market and Hardware in Southern California. Gommel's store was one of those affected over the past week by an outage at UNFI, a major food distributor for supermarkets in the US. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. We've been running this store in Lucerne Valley for 50 years. Lucerne Valley is a very small, rural place.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Ashley Rodriguez |Alex Bitter |Henry Blodget

The aisles of your local grocery store might look more sparse than usual going into the weekend. The reason involves a food distribution company that few shoppers have probably heard of: United Natural Foods. The grocery supplier, also known as UNFI, noticed "unauthorized activity" on its IT systems last week, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.