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PFG Food Show 2025

Images from the 2025 PFG Food Show, at The Rustic in Houston, Texas.   See below for some great pictures from the show! …   2025 PFG Texas Food Show, Houston, Texas.     2025 PFG Texas Food Show, Houston, Texas.       2025 PFG Texas Food Show, Houston, Texas.       2025 … Continued

7 foods Gen Z grew up on that completely horrify Boomers

Jordan Cooper | October 13, 2025 Colorful, convenient, and questionably edible: Gen Z’s nostalgia is Boomers’ culinary nightmare.   The generational food divide has never been wider—or weirder. While Boomers grew up with TV dinners and Tang (hardly natural cuisine), they’re genuinely baffled by what Gen Z considers normal. It’s not about health or tradition anymore; … Continued

Grocers continue to gain ground on restaurants, FMI survey finds

Sam Silverstein | October 9, 2025 Twenty-eight percent of shoppers in a survey the trade group conducted said they buy deli-prepared foods from grocers as a replacement for going to a restaurant, up from 12% in 2017.   A Sprouts employee restocks the grocer’s Heat & Eat meal offerings. Part of the grocer’s prepared food offerings, … Continued

Brookshire Grocery to Buy Two Oklahoma Supermarkets

Sam Silverstein | October 7, 2025   The Texas-based retailer plans to convert the locations into Fresh by Reasor’s stores.   Exterior of a Fresh by Reasor’s grocery store. The Oklahoma chain is a unit of Brookshire Grocery Co. of Texas. Courtesy of Brookshire Grocery Co.   Brookshire Grocery Co. has agreed to acquire two Uptown … Continued

Organic food prices could soar as US imposes import restrictions and new tariffs on specialty sugar

Sarah Raza | September 18, 2025 90% of organic sugar used by U.S. manufacturers is imported & the price increased in August when the current administration imposed steep trade tariffs, expected to soar by an average of 30%   …………………………………………………………………. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The price of most organic food could jump this fall … Continued

Kroger to roll out ‘deli of the future’ in new Kentucky store

Sam Silverstein | Reporter | September 8, 2025 The 6,500-square-foot prepared food section will feature an open kitchen and offer items “inspired by restaurants and the classic neighborhood deli,” the grocer said.   Kroger plans to include a “deli of the future” prototype in a new store set to open later this month in northern … Continued

Kraft Heinz to Break Up Its Food Businesses

By Lauren Hirsch and Julie Creswell  | Sept. 2, 2025 A planned split of the mega company that makes products from Velveeta to Kool-Aid comes as consumers shift away from processed foods. Kraft Heinz plans to spin off its grocery business into a new entity. The remaining company would house sauces, condiments and products, like Heinz … Continued

What We Eat May Never Look the Same

Shayla Love | August 8, 2025 We are at war with synthetic food dyes. Scientists are racing to reinvent the culinary color wheel. Illustration by Nicholas Konrad During Biden’s final week in office, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Red No. 3, a synthetic dye that Americans have consumed for nearly a century, would … Continued

Chocolate prices soar as tariffs threaten to worsen industry crisis

Douglas Brown | Senior Retail Reporter | August 1, 2025   Prepping cacao pods for chocolate manufacturing. (CANVA)) At a Glance Cocoa prices tripled in early 2024; new tariffs could push costs up another 36%. Small brands pivot product strategies while maintaining sustainable farming commitments. Crisis affects all chocolate products with major brands reporting significant … Continued

2025 Summer Fancy Food Show

Joseph Chen | July 8, 2025   10 Trends on Display at the 2025 Summer Fancy Food Show   NEW YORK CITY – The specialty food industry remains dynamic and innovative as ever. This year’s Summer Fancy Food Show proved as much, celebrating the return of dairy, tallow, fruits, and natural sugar with ingredients in … Continued