For more than a year, the pandemic has shaken things up, including how grocery stores (a $40 billion industry) can efficiently execute the journey that food and other products must make from farms, ranches and other production centers to our tables, pantries and garages. Arizona’s Bashas’ Family of Stores has taken an innovative step forward to speed up the connection between grocers and local suppliers by partnering with Forager, an East Coast online and mobile platform. Bashas … [Read more...] about A Faster Trip from Farm to Shelf
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Busy Lifestyles Feeding Online Food Market
The days of combing the aisles of brick and mortar grocery stores for pantry staples and fresh ingredients remain far from over, but online meal alternatives entice time-strapped consumers with diverse, convenient, quick and often health-conscious menus. Choices include pickup or home delivery of groceries from a favorite supermarket, full-blown meal kits supplying pre-portioned fresh ingredients with chef-created recipes, pre-prepared fresh meals to pop into the microwave, or favorite … [Read more...] about Busy Lifestyles Feeding Online Food Market