Jeff Wells

Seattle

Lead Editor at Grocery Dive

Lead Editor at C-Store Dive

Lead Editor @GroceryDive covering the retail food biz. Proud dad. Fiction writer. Dry humorist.

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Amazon restructures grocery leadership as it further integrates Whole Foods

2 weeks ago | grocerydive.com | Jeff Wells

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Amazon has named a restructured leadership team for its Worldwide Grocery division that includes top executives from Whole Foods Market, according to a report by Business Insider, which cited a corporate memo that was confirmed by an Amazon spokesperson.
Private label beer is having a moment. Should grocers order a round?

2 weeks ago | grocerydive.com | Jeff Wells

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. All the right ingredients are coming together to form a heady brew of private label beer innovation for retailers. Consumers are prioritizing value-priced beers. Brewers that have struggled with sagging demand have excess manufacturing capacity available. And major players like Costco and Walmart have made investments in exclusive beer brands recently. For decades, beer has been a fairly impenetrable category for store brands.
Private label beer is having a moment. Should c-stores order a round?

2 weeks ago | cstoredive.com | Jeff Wells

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. All the right ingredients are coming together to form a heady brew of private label beer innovation for retailers. Consumers are prioritizing value-priced beers. Brewers that have struggled with sagging demand have excess manufacturing capacity available. And major players like Costco and Walmart have made investments in exclusive beer brands recently. For decades, beer has been a fairly impenetrable category for store brands.
Grocers sit in the middle of a snacking shift

3 weeks ago | fooddive.com | Jeff Wells

Grocers nabbed sales of nearly 160 million bags of chips, boxes of crackers and other snacks from competitors during the 52-week period ended March 22, according to a recent snacking report from NielsenIQ. However, grocers lost around 56 million snack unit sales to club and mass merchandisers over that same period, the firm found.
Grocers sit in the middle of a snacking shift

3 weeks ago | grocerydive.com | Jeff Wells

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Grocers nabbed sales of nearly 160 million bags of chips, boxes of crackers and other snacks from competitors during the 52-week period ended March 22, according to a recent snacking report from NielsenIQ. However, grocers lost around 56 million snack unit sales to club and mass merchandisers over that same period, the firm found.
Market Basket CEO placed on leave as company board launches probe

1 month ago | grocerydive.com | Jeff Wells

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Market Basket’s board has placed CEO Arthur T. Demoulas on paid administrative leave while its executive committee investigates his recent conduct, including allegations that he was planning a work stoppage, according to a release the board issued Wednesday.
4 c-store chains that are investing in new formats

1 month ago | cstoredive.com | Jeff Wells

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. From national chains to regional upstarts, some of the c-store industry’s fastest-growing companies are supercharging their expansions with eye-catching new store formats. There’s no single approach that convenience retailers are taking with these updated pit stops. Some have turned up the volume on foodservice, while others are building larger stores that pack in more products and services.
How Kroger is looking past its failed plan to merge with Albertsons

1 month ago | grocerydive.com | Catherine Moran |Sam Silverstein |Peyton Bigora |Jeff Wells

During the five months since Kroger’s attempt to combine with Albertsons fell apart, the grocery chain has taken several steps to put the unsuccessful transaction behind it. The company named a new chief financial officer from outside the company, created a new business unit to consolidate its online operations under a single leader and added hundreds of private label products to its expansive own brands portfolio.
Nonprofit grocer founded by former Trader Joe’s head to close

1 month ago | grocerydive.com | Jeff Wells

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Daily Table, a nonprofit grocer that sells food at steep discounts to low-income consumers in the Boston area, announced Friday it would close all four of its stores. Founded in 2012 by former Trader Joe’s President Doug Rauch, Daily Table relied on philanthropic support and discounted food from suppliers to offer a full range of groceries at a 30% markdown.
Pardon the Disruption: What grocers can learn from The Fresh Market’s strategic turnaround

1 month ago | grocerydive.com | Jeff Wells

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Pardon the Disruption is a column that looks at the forces shaping food retail. A decade ago, The Fresh Market was strategically adrift and losing market share. Founded in 1982, the specialty grocer rose with the natural foods boom that also lifted Whole Foods Market, Sprouts Farmers Market and other similarly positioned retailers. But it grew too fast and tried to do too many things at once.