The Produce Reporter Week in Review – November 15, 2019

Pamela and Greg discuss how grocery retailers are turning to “dark stores” to ease the congestion of e-commerce fulfillment, Walmart’s dig at gig economy workers like Instacart for grocery, and Amazon’s plans for a brick and mortar grocery in Los Angeles.

It’ll be the store opening of 2020, and the entire grocery industry will be watching.

In other retail news, Albertsons is scraping the Plated subscription service in favor of rolling the brand into its suite of private labels, and plastic has its place in fresh produce.

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• CPMA podcast delves into consumer packaging perceptions