Feature
Sell more DELI dinners-To-Go
It’s 4 p.m. What’s for dinner? This is the question that resonates with consumers across the nation. It’s no wonder! Eighty percent of Americans ate dinner daily in 2020, versus 67% for lunch and 63% […]
Month: December 2021
Feature
Snacks Are the New Meals
Snacks are becoming the new meals as consumers look to eat in convenient smaller quantities rather than sit down together for more extended mealtime gatherings with family, friends or co-workers. And producers expect consumers venturing […]
Deli Meats
A Meaty Proposition
Deli meats have been a great solution for customers during the pandemic, as many found themselves in their home office searching for meal solutions throughout their quarantine and stay-at-home time. Once the pandemic hit, deli […]
From the Editor
Making Delis a Culinary Mecca
Deli departments in supermarkets have been in a strange place throughout the pandemic. On one hand, the delis never received the enormous boost in sales that grocery did at the beginning of the pandemic. It […]
Cheese Corner
Greek Cheese: It’s Not Just Feta
Say “Greek cheese” and most people think feta. But the cheese heritage of Greece is ancient, rich, and far more varied. Greeks had been producing and trading many fresh and aged cheese types well before […]
Merchandising Review
Dips and Spreads Ready for Celebrations
After all this time eating in pandemic isolation, the final weeks of 2021 and the early months of 2022 could offer an opportunity for the deli to make a statement with dips and spreads suitable […]
Merchandising Review
The Deli Cracker Difference
Crackers found in the deli sections of supermarkets tend to differ from their counterparts in grocery aisles in a variety of key ways, but Cara Figgins, president of Des Moines, WA-based Partners, a Tasteful Choice […]
Cover Story
Succeeding in Sustainability
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 committed the United States to sustainability, declaring it a national policy “to create and maintain conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit […]