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Aldi Pulls Eggs from Shelves in Germany over Food Safety Scare

Traces of insecticide fipronil were found in eggs in Belgium and the Netherlands last month, which has led to supermarkets halting the sale of eggs from the Netherlands.

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Carbon Footprint

Raley’s Achieves Goal to Provide Sustainable Seafood Chain-wide

Raley’s Supermarkets

The supermarket has completed the transition of its fresh seafood offerings to sustainable seafood company-wide as part of an ongoing effort to change the way the world eats, one plate at a time.

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Grocerants: Grocery + Restaurant = Opportunities

Millennial consumers are driving forward the “grocerant” trend, creating major opportunities for foodservice in a retail setting.

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Risk/Compliance

Bad Weather is an Opportunity for Grocers to Build Loyal Customers

Salient Corporation

Data-driven strategies allow grocery stores to turn bad weather chaos into happy shopping and loyal customers.

Waste Reduction

Grocery Industry Clarifies Date Labels to Cut Food Waste

Grocery manufacturers and retailers are adopting standard wording on food packaging to cut food waste.

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Wal-Mart Faces 174 Charges Related to Sale of Fire-Contaminated Food

Wal-Mart Canada failed to ensure that food that was unfit for human consumption was not stocked or sold at its outlet.

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Delivery Service Foodstantly Is Making Shopping Safer Across Africa

Delivery service Foodstantly is hoping to make the process of shopping for food more transparent and safer for all Nigerians—and ultimately across Africa.

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Alibaba Dives Deeper into Food, Invests in Supermarket Chain Sanjiang Shopping Club

Sanjiang said it aims to use Alibaba's e-commerce platform to make the most of the increasingly competitive bricks-and-mortar retail sector as China's economic growth slows.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to invest RMB2.1 billion (US $305 million) in Zhejiang province-based supermarket chain Sanjiang Shopping Club Co., Ltd., as the Chinese e-commerce giant moves to pursue a 'new retail' model envisioned by founder Jack Ma.

As Amazon Focuses on Grocery, Alibaba Says They Won't Go Head-to-Head Against Them

Alibaba Group Holding is not currently seeking to make inroads into its bigger U.S. rival Amazon.com top markets, a senior executive at the Chinese e-commerce company told a business gathering in Hong Kong last week.

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Alibaba's Lazada Group Acquires Singapore Online Grocer RedMart

With recent reports suggesting that the online grocery market is at an inflection point, the acquisition will provide Alibaba with a strong footprint in a leading global logistics hub in Singapore.

The transaction is expected to be completed in calendar Q4 2016, with Goldman Sachs acting as the financial advisor to Lazada Group while Credit Suisse advises RedMart.

Emerging Technologies

IBM, Wal-Mart and Chinese University Collaborate to Track Food on Blockchain

Chinese food safety practices have raised concern about contamination in China and in countries where Chinese food products are imported, and the new project aims to trace the movement of meat, vegetables and other products.

Blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency bitcoin, enables data sharing across a network of individual computers. It has gained popularity worldwide due to its usefulness in recording and keeping track of assets across practically all industries.

Walmart Invests $25 Million on Food Safety Research in China

Wal-Mart also announced three projects including one that brings U.S. and China academics together with local poultry producers Fujian Shengnong Food Co., New Hope Liuhe Co. and Guangzhou Jiangfeng Industry Co. to study safety in poultry supply chains.

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