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  • What Whole Foods says you’ll be eating in 2016

    Americans will be eating grass-fed proteins, a wide range of non-GMO products and chasing it down with a can of wine, according to a list of 10 top food trends compiled by Whole Foods.

    With the year-end being a time for reflection and prognostication, Whole Foods has entered the fray with a set of top food trends for 2016 informed by its position as the retail industry’s leader of natural and organic products. The company says to watch these trends in the New Year:

  • Supermarket chain names new CEO

    Photo: Pete Van Helden has been named chief executive of Stater Bros. Markets

  • Aptos board gains industry experience

    Retail business industry veteran Lawrence Jackson has been named to the board of directors of cloud-based enterprise retail technology provider Aptos Inc. (formerly Epicor Retail Solutions).

  • Whole Foods Market to pay $500,000 to settle overcharging allegations

    Whole Foods Market has settled a dispute with the city of New York.

    The grocer has agreed to pay $500,000 and to conduct regular in-store audits in a resolution of allegations that its stores in New York City were overcharging customers for prepackaged foods. The settlement was announced by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA).

  • U.S. retail sales to hit nearly $5 trillion in 2015

    More than a fifth of the world’s retail sales occurred in the United States this year.

    That’s according to the latest forecast of retail and e-commerce sales from eMarketer, which estimates that total U.S. retail sales hit $4.8 trillion in 2015 and will approach $5 trillion in value in 2016.

  • Grocery goes high-tech in 2016

    Ordering groceries online and digitizing the store rank among the top trends in grocery shopping for 2016, according to GroceryStories.com.
     
    GroceryStories identified the following full list of top grocery trends for 2016:

  • Report: Grocery goes high-tech in 2016

    Ordering groceries online and digitizing the store rank among the top trends in grocery shopping for 2016, according to GroceryStories.com.

    GroceryStories identified the following full list of top grocery trends for 2016:

  • Brands to Watch in 2016

    Which brands will break new ground, fall from grace, or overcome obstacles in 2016? Here’s my list of brands to watch in 2016. Since I couldn’t narrow the list to a handful as I’ve done in past years, I decided to expand the list to 26, one for each letter of the alphabet.

    So here’s a brand-builder’s almanac for the coming year:

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