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Compared with an average month, consumers spend 42 percent more dollars on herbal tea with an immunity claim on the label

Convenience store straffic declined 2.4 percent across Q1 and Q2 2017.

Limited-assortment stores, dollar stores and supercenters are the fastest-growing segments of the brick-and-mortar retail food industry.

Digital solutions like eCommerce click-and-collect models are offering more opportunities for supermarkets.

Both non-alcohol and alcohol private-label beverages outperformed the industry overall.

Whether it’s Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market or Walmart’s acquisition of Jet.com, the growth and impact of grocery eCommerce has become ever more visible in the past few years.

Where and how consumers shop for food and beverages continues to evolve as eCommerce reshapes the path-to-purchase.

In August, Seattle-based Amazon finalized its $13.7 billion acquisition of natural and organic retailer Whole Foods Market, Austin, Texas. The acquisition has translated into big changes not only in the pricing of many natural and organic products sold within Whole Foods stores, but likely will impact the ways that consumers purchase consumer packed goods (CPG).