Weekly Food Industry Insights - August 4, 2023

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Yellowstone and Supermarket Shelves

Have you watched Yellowstone yet? The award-winning series, now in its 5th season, set in 1923, follows the conflicts along the shared borders of the Yellowstone Cattle Ranch, the Broken Rock Indian Reservation, Yellowstone National Park and of course land developers. Due to the writers and SAG-AFTRA strike, the filming has been put on hold – but not so much for the branding.?FoodStory Brands?and?Paramount Consumer Products BENELUX & NORDICS?have joined forces to produce the Yellowstone line of elevated Western cuisine which they say will embody the rustic authentic experience of the Yellowstone universe.?FULL STORY.

SNAP for Strikers

In light of the ongoing writer/actor strike, Senator John Fetterman has introduced a new food stamps bill for workers who are on strike.??FULL STORY

Dollar General 'Food First'

Dollar General?expanded?their store brands to over 600 different products. They are installing more than 65,000 refrigerated cases and have added more produce to their stores. But at the same time, what's really interesting to me is they're not making as much money, because they've made more money historically on non-food products.?FULL STORY

Stealing Food is a Big Problem

I've been talking to different CEOs and different retailers over the past few weeks, and I'm hearing that theft is getting worse and worse by the day as it relates to supermarkets.??FULL STORY

U.S. Forced Labor

A study?published in the?journal Nature?found that 62% of food produced using forced labor came from the United States.??FULL STORY

Food Price Wars

The?CEO of Carrefour, says that suppliers are not negotiating in good faith. They're not doing what they should to bring prices back down.??FULL STORY

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