McKensey

MARCH 21, 2024

Novel ingredients could shape the future of food—but are consumers willing to try (and pay for) them? Our survey on US consumer sentiment offers insights for formulators, brands, and retailers.

Retail 127

Retail Food 127

Work Life

JUNE 30, 2024

When I say that I have an obsessive fascination with cashiers, Jason Buechel, CEO of Whole Foods Market, laughs. Companies like Whole Foods sit at the center of this question. How is Whole Foods embracing and utilizing AI? How does geography impact how you expect Whole Foods stores to use AI?

Food 98

Food Supplies Technology Problem-Solving 98

Success

JUNE 12, 2023

Inflation may have started to cool, but the price of food and other necessities remains much higher than last year. If you feel like food prices are out of control, it’s not all in your head. According to the USDA Economic Research Service, food-at-home prices rose 7.1% Why are groceries so expensive right now? Cook at home.

Retail 105

Retail Food Sales Banking 105

SnackNation

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Episode 6 | How Dang Foods Created the Coconut Chip Category . The Berkeley based company make whole food, Asian inspired snacks that people just can’t get enough of. Vincent definitely didn’t grow up in the food biz, but he brought skills that served him well in his previous career, which turned out to be a major advantage.

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Food Retail Learning 62

Workplace Insight

MARCH 13, 2024

The report says that this development bodes well for the office market, benefiting investors, landlords, and businesses reliant on office workers, including retailers and food and beverage operators. The rise in occupancy is particularly notable in regional cities across the country.

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Retail Consulting Food Influencing 119

Great Place to Work

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The retail industry, like so many others, is undergoing significant transformation. From changing consumer expectations to evolving market dynamics, all retailers face new challenges, including staffing shortages and high employee turnover rates. Despite this shifting landscape, the retail sector is experiencing growth.

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Retail Food Prioritization Reporting 52

Work Life

JUNE 10, 2024

Take food safety: a shopper could scan a QR Code, which is a type of 2D barcode, before buying a product to determine if it contained even trace amounts of an allergen. Retailers could use the technology to easily know whether an item expired before putting it on the shelf. Trust in transparency Businesses stand to gain, too.

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Supplies Retail Manufacturing Food 98

Success

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Most Innovative Company in Food 1. UPSIDE Foods Photo courtesy of UPSIDE Foods Who they are: UPSIDE Foods is on the leading edge of animal cell-cultivated meat. It made history in 2023 with the first consumer sale of cultivated meat, which required approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

Food 126

Food Retail Cleaning Sales 126

Go Burrows

AUGUST 6, 2023

Maggie Olson has extensive experience at some of the biggest companies in retail, food & beverage, and technology. ezCater’s simple-to-use platform provides a network of over 100,000 restaurants nationwide, business-grade reliability, food spend management tools, and 24/7 support from their highly trained customer service team.

Retail 98

Retail Food Catering Customer Service 98

Success

MAY 25, 2022

After that, she quit her job in San Francisco, moved to Santa Barbara and became an accidental entrepreneur, launching Sun & Swell Foods , a line of healthy and organic snacks. I was eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet and found it impossible to find snacks,” she says. “I Photos by Ali Beck and Sun & Swell Foods.

Food 105

Food Retail Purchasing Sales 105

Work Life

MARCH 5, 2024

Grocery store food prices were 1.2% families who are unable to afford the basics of housing, child care, food, transportation, health care and technology. a retail salesperson, increased 2.8% A Bankrate survey finds that Americans are more than two times more likely  to feel financially insecure than secure.

Transportation 105

Transportation Food Retail Security 105

Success

JULY 18, 2024

Fortunately, thanks to temperate weather and fresh produce in its peak in many parts of the world, summer and fall are optimal seasons to pursue food-filled excursions. These food-fueled gatherings have become even more meaningful after years of separation due to the pandemic. Best of all, this is a celebration with a cause.

Food 52

Food Retail Purchasing Small Business 52

Success

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To them, it encompasses everything they can achieve through pizza, which includes using food as a vehicle for social change. Gray says their first location on 10th Avenue North and Buchanan Street was a food desert and had no restaurants near it for 10-15 blocks. But the S+H founders know people come for more than just the food.

Food 131

Food Payroll Retail Banking 131

Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Widely used in appointment-driven industries like healthcare, retail, hospitality, fitness, and home services (e.g., Widely used in appointment-driven industries like healthcare, retail, hospitality, fitness, and home services (e.g.,

Software 105

Software Payroll Healthcare Flexibility 105

Work Life

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

That group, which the report identifies as “skills-based hiring leaders,” was largely comprised of smaller employers but also included major companies, including Koch Industries, Walmart, Apple, General Motors, Target, Cigna, Tyson Foods, ExxonMobil, and Yelp, along with a handful of government employers.

Banking 111

Banking Retail Government Food 111

Success

AUGUST 24, 2022

So I decided, OK, if I can establish a supply chain that can help me get a very high-quality product at retail costs that are 10 times lower than what these guys at Young Living are selling, but still give the customer the same product, I hope that the customer would recognize it and give me some love. But what drives me is, No.

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Interviewing Food Retail Supplies 116

Work Life

JULY 30, 2024

It might come as little surprise that working in retail or fast food ranks as one of the most common jobs in the U.S. Between the low pay and limited benefits, home care agencies have struggled to retain workers, especially as fast food and retail jobs have grown more appealing due to minimum wage increases.

Insurance 98

Insurance Retail Food Training 98

Work Life

APRIL 24, 2024

The commission and Democrats and worker advocates who support the rule say it is necessary to rein in the increasingly common practice of requiring workers to sign noncompete agreements, even in lower-paying service industries such as fast food and retail.

Legal 98

Legal Retail Small Business Food 98

SnackNation

MAY 30, 2019

The Next Great Retail Trend: The Office Break Room. In the office of tomorrow, the break room will be the heart of the organization…and the center of food & beverage innovation. Picture pop-ups, like you might see in a farmer’s market or Whole Foods. When you hear the words “office break room,” what do you picture?

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Retail Catering Food Cubicle 37

Success

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A balanced approach may be to eat mostly healthy, nutritious foods while incorporating a few cheat meals every now and then. And it’s just a matter of time before there are a variety of cryptocurrency index funds for retail investors to add to their retirement portfolio. Imagine your diet. The same idea applies with your money.

Retail 110

Retail Banking Purchasing Technology 110

Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As an example, a leading sports trainer manufacturer is now displaying carbon content labelling, rather like food retailers quote calories. There is an increasing awareness that carbon is contained within all the products we buy.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Retail Food Controlling 98

Success

APRIL 5, 2023

It was virtually unheard of in food service circles. After making another promise—that the food customers received would look like the photos used by the company —Domino’s adopted a “ Show Us Your Pizza ” campaign, wherein Doyle encouraged customers to upload their pizza photos on a website built for that purpose. billion in the U.S.

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Advertising Sales Food Retail 111

Success

APRIL 7, 2023

Out of all my foodie friends, I would have been voted the least likely to run a food business. Now when I’m uncertain about some aspect of running a food business, I just educate myself and move on. I’m now two and a half years in, and it’s getting better. In other words, they liked my branding.

Sales 122

Sales Food Retail Interviewing 122

Work Life

JULY 3, 2024

The ethos has piqued interest across industries, including tech, healthcare, finance, retail, and even government, as hybrid and remote work are the norm in our economy. The company was more productive, made more money, and retained talent more consistently. The four-day work week is not conditional,” says Swift. It’s a mindset.”

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Retail Finance Logistics 98

Eat Your Career

AUGUST 19, 2010

Yesterday, I realized that my refrigerator was full of condiments but empty of real food. And then, even after I had the food, I’d have to prepare it and clean up after myself. The bill was probably close to what I would have spent at the grocery store buying a week’s worth of food. I’ve been a bit frazzled lately.

Food 87

Food Retail Purchasing Cleaning 87

Office Snapshots

AUGUST 1, 2024

Lobster Ink is a global training and content developer in the hospitality, food and beverage sector. It is a subsidiary of Ecolab, a Fortune500 company and the two brands share premises in Cape Town.

Real Estate 98

Real Estate Retail Equipment Food 98

Work Life

MARCH 18, 2024

Target changed consumer perceptions through its partnerships with high-end designers, starting with a Michael Graves teakettle, but those collaborations account for a small percentage of the retailer’s annual revenue. Bastian says Delta’s case hinged on investing in reliability.

Customer Service 116

Customer Service Retail Leadership Software 116

Work Life

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, cousins and fourth-generation co-owners of iconic bagel and lox purveyor Russ & Daughters, offer an alternative narrative—and valuable food for thought on longevity and leadership.

Learning 115

Learning Catering Leadership Retail 115

Work Life

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Standalone, on-site workers include banking clerks, retail, manufacturing, processing, and food prep jobs and are classic candidates for automation or simplification and outsourcing.  The expansion of learning will not be limited by geography.

Automotive 115

Automotive Data Entry Finance Technology 115

Success

DECEMBER 8, 2023

His father was a dishwasher and his mother was a seamstress before they opened their own retail store. The challenges of founding Bokksu Because the world of shipping food-based subscription boxes was so new, Taing says there were nonstop challenges—the biggest one being, “How do I get these snacks?” Far from it.

Retail 115

Retail Supplies Purchasing Computer 115

Success

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In 1981, he decided to begin a chain of retail sporting goods stores that he intended to take nationwide, called Magic’s 32. Even though there were nine of us, we had what we needed—two great parents, food on the table and time for the whole family to be together,” he writes in his 1992 memoir, My Life. Both parents worked hard.

Mentoring 116

Mentoring Retail Influencing Learning 116

Ask a Manager

JUNE 27, 2018

Coworker takes too much food at meetings. I have a coworker who is pretty young (early 20s) who, when food such as bagels or muffins are brought into a meeting, has been known to grab four to five of them. I work for a tiny (five-person) company that offers both client work and retail. Do I just look the other way on this one?

Food 40

Food Retail Interviewing Influencing 40

Success

AUGUST 14, 2023

At 17, he moved to Denver and worked odd jobs, including at restaurants, gas stations and retail stores. That turned into a job with one of the retailers who carried those linens, Portico, where he worked his way up to buyer and then to head of e-commerce in 2005. He was homeless for a while, living out of his car.

Retail 75

Retail Manufacturing Construction Sales 75

Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 11, 2022

You can help improve your community by volunteering at homeless shelters or organizing food drives. One in ten people in the United States cannot access affordable, nutritious food. of people in the US don't have reliable access to affordable, nutritious food. And, about 10.5% Blood Drive.

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Cleaning Food Mentoring Technology 98

Work Life

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

I was the person who wore the little pink-and-white uniform, brought food and water to patients and read to them. I was promoted to the catalog retailing department and did gift wrapping. A: I was a candy striper at Northwest Hospital in Schaumburg, Illinois. I liked seeing the smile on people’s faces.

Legal 75

Legal Work Ethic Retail Food 75

Vantage Circle

AUGUST 8, 2022

Virtual gift cards let employers choose from a wide range of retailers that cover almost every aspect of their employees' interests. Your employees get the freedom to choose from a wide variety of retailers and services making the gifting experience more memorable. If you have any more fun ideas, do let us know!

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Problem-Solving Retail Software Food 98

Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 19, 2018

My coworker’s food restrictions mean that I’ll be the one restricted. We’ve always had to be a little careful where we book, because a couple of employees need gluten-free food. We’ve always had to be a little careful where we book, because a couple of employees need gluten-free food. Here we go….

Food 40

Food Retail Interviewing Small Business 40