A stray orange tabby with a plastic ring around its body was spotted roaming Ellington, Missouri. That is all the information Laura Baker, a registered nurse and founder of the Itty Bitty Kitty City rescue in Ellington, had.
When it comes to organic food and beverage purchases, consumers prioritize different sets of criteria depending on product categories.
September 7, 2022
Consumer purchase criteria and expectations for quality shift depending on the food or beverage category. In addition to the organic label itself, consumers look to farm-level and processing cues to augment and occasionally stand in for the specific values they associate with organic.
During the month of September, my daughter took a well-balanced (and very organized) stainless steel Bento Box complete with a silicone seal closure. By October, I got lazy and stopped the daily cleaning and started shoving the sandwich into a ZipLoc bag before throwing it in a zippered lunch bag. When the guilt kicked in, I compromised and bought 100% compostable sandwich bags.
Amazon has come a long way since its first warehouses were built in 1997. Now, the e-commerce giant has hundreds of warehouses for numerous distribution purposes throughout the United States and has even branched out into other countries, such as Canada and Germany.
February is Super Bowl month, where many CPG brands will pay $6.5 million for a 30-second spot and hope it resonates with consumers and increases sales. This year, Lay’s potato chips will run its first ad during the game in 17 years.
For nearly a century, we have been opening English muffin packaging wrong.
We, the groggy, have fought to unwrap cellophane English muffin packaging for decades. But that was only half the battle.
When life gets difficult, a sense of humor helps. Given the labor shortages, congested shipping ports and lack of raw materials combined with rising inflation, there is no question: We consumers are living in challenging times.