Retail strategy, channels, and store formats.
Oregon-based Dutch Bros is taking its high-energy brand from the drive-thru to the grocery aisle, joining a growing wave of QSRs leveraging brand equity to capture the retail CPG market.
Jul 10, 2026
From signature sauces to frozen entrees, Quick Service Restaurants are aggressively expanding into the CPG space to capture home-dining dollars and diversify revenue streams.
Jul 9, 2026
A new generation of c-store fresh kitchens is hitting fast-casual quality at half the ticket, and the fast-casual middle is feeling it.
May 21, 2026
Starship, Serve, and Coco are signing multi-thousand-unit deployments with Kroger, Sprouts, and Albertsons after years of campus pilots.
May 20, 2026
Camera-based AI checkout (no scanning, no PLU lookups) is moving from Amazon Go novelty to mainstream grocery rollout at Sam's Club, Aldi, and regional chains.
May 20, 2026
The Daily Shop format is Whole Foods clearest answer yet to Trader Joes, Aldi, and the everyday-grocery occasion it has historically lost.
May 20, 2026
Halal is the next "ethnic aisle to its own category" graduation, following koshers arc by thirty years.
May 18, 2026
The "ethnic aisle" is collapsing, and Hispanic foods are the test case that is redrawing grocery merchandising.
May 13, 2026
Kirkland, Trader Joe's, Aldi, and Whole Foods 365 are no longer the cheap option. They're winning premium occasions national brands used to own.
May 13, 2026
Kroger, Walmart, and Albertsons are earning more from selling ad space to CPGs than from the products on the shelf. The model is rewriting CPG marketing budgets.
May 13, 2026
