December 20, 2022
4 Ways to Reduce the Impact of Food Inflation on Consumers — Without Cutting Your Prices
To cope with spiraling food costs during the inflation crisis, consumers are doing two things. First, they're finding different, cheaper supermarkets, like Lidl, Dollar General, Food4Less and Family Dollar. This means higher-end retailers like Sprouts, Wegmans, Fresh Market, Harris Teeter and Publix are lagging behind in in-person visits. Secondly, consumers…
February 11, 2022
Flavor Meets Fashion: Merch Mania Strikes Food Marketing Creative
Last quarter’s creative review called out a burgeoning food and beverage marketing trend centering on fashion merchandise tie-ins among brands including McDonald’s, Heinz, Goldfish Crackers, and more. Since then, the use of the tactic has increased dramatically with CPG brands including Sunny D and Vita Coco, Commodities like Avocados from…
September 27, 2021
Food Advertising Creative Attempts a Return to Normalcy
After struggling to find their creative voice during the pandemic, food advertisers started moving toward a new normalcy in their messaging with the apparent decline of the coronavirus. But with the Delta variant now hot on COVID’s heels, who knows how long this trend will last? At least for the…
June 6, 2022
Consumer Demand for Convenience Knows No Bounds
Consumers have come to expect convenience in all their dealings--the ‘frictionless transaction’ in online shopping parlance. I recently visited Las Vegas for the first time since before the pandemic. I was driving from downtown to the Strip when I passed the section where all the wedding chapels are. I noticed…
August 19, 2021
From Languishing to Flourishing: 5 Health & Wellness Shifts Every Food Marketer Needs to Know
In April 2021, Adam Grant published a piece for the New York Times, “There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing,” in which he succinctly named the collective emotion of 2021. In response, Dani Blum wrote “The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing,” providing a proactive step-by-step…
March 10, 2021
A Trend That Is Here To Stay: Plant-forward Food Consumption
The pandemic has caused many changes in consumer behavior, leading to discussion about how ephemeral those changes are, or alternatively if they are trends that have become 'the new normal'. Will everyone be baking their own bread from now on, or once commuting hours come back, will that fall by…
March 16, 2021
Empower Your Food PR Team to Say “No” When It Counts
No matter how well-oiled the machine, your food PR team simply can’t be everywhere and act on everything. Nor do you want them to. Only a handful of the “opportunities” that cross their desks have the power to truly move the needle for your food brand. And these “big boulders”…
