Facing growing pressure from critics to exit Russia, Nestle said it is suspending sales of Kit Kat bars, Nespresso pods, and San Pellegrino bottled water in Russia—though stopping short of selling all products.
As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, some craft breweries are bracing for higher barley prices.
Oatly is no longer the star of the oat milk scene. Planet Oat, a lower priced alternative, now makes up 37% of the US oat milk market, whereas Oatly accounts for 22%, according to data from IRI, a Chicago-based market research firm.
In 2022 the typical English consumer is more likely to be a vegetarian who works from home than in years past, at least according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
DoorDash delivers just about everything, and now it’s hoping to return goods as well. The on-demand delivery service is testing a feature where customers can use DoorDash to return packages to the nearest post office, UPS, or FedEx location.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on March 9 that it is accepting grant applications to provide “historically underserved farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners” with technical support for programs and services including agricultural capital and credit as well as agricultural production.
During a stellar quarter for sales at Sweetgreen, the trendy salad chain is still feeling the effect of office workers who are working from home, especially in urban markets.
In a very online world tech platforms are quickly emerging as a creative new way to send help directly to Ukrainians.
Online commentators are flooding Google Maps and other review sites across Russia with feedback that has nothing to do with the quality of a restaurant’s pelmeni or borscht, but instead discusses the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Target is raising its wages up to $24 an hour for some workers.
Wheat prices have soared on the news of Russia attacking Ukraine, but they were already rising due to ongoing droughts around the world.
Grocery shopping has become more convenient than ever.
Russia and Ukraine export a lot of wheat. Russia supplies about 20% of world wheat exports, and Ukraine about 10%, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Together, they account for approximately 13% of total global wheat production.
Whether your favorite four-legged friend is a yellow lab, a pug, or a tuxedo tabby cat, you’ve probably seen them chasing, and then devouring—with relish—the occasional butterfly or cricket. This, says Haley Russell, founder of Chippin, a startup that makes dog food from planet-friendly proteins like insects, silver carp, and algae, makes insect-based pet food an easy sell to pet owners.
The pandemic may be starting to ease, but DoorDash is still going strong.
Inflation continues to hit US grocery stores hard. Prices for groceries were 10.8% higher in January compared to a year before, the fastest year-over-year increase since 1980.
Bing Dwen Dwen, the Beijing 2022 Olympic mascot, is very popular.
Yum Brands, the owner of big chains like Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut, opened 4,180 new locations last year, an expansion pace that CEO David Gibbs described to investors as an industry record.
The US is importing coffee, and lots of it, at the highest prices in a decade.
As inflation in the US surges—it reached 7% in December—the fastest monthly increase since 1982—Amazon will soon raise the price of an annual Prime subscription from $119 to $139, and the monthly fee from $12.99 to $14.99.
Food prices continue to rise around the world, according to the United Nations’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) index of food prices. The index climbed another 1.1% in January from the month before, reaching its highest point since 2011. The index measures the monthly change in average prices of the food categories meat, dairy, cereals, vegetable oils, and sugar.
From Baltimore to Oakland, employees in at least 50 US Starbucks stores are pursuing union elections. The movement follows the recent worker victory in Buffalo, New York, where two stores voted to unionize. The recent organizing successes and the ongoing labor crunch in the industry suggest unionizing baristas may have an upper hand.
Plant-based meat is surfacing on the menus of fast-food chains. The latest offering comes from McDonald’s, which plans to roll out its McPlant burger across 600 locations in the San Francisco and Dallas areas Feb. 14.
Walmart wants to bring the farm closer to the store.
