Today’s food marketplace is a bit like the warring factions on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” All of the parties in this channel-blurred landscape—drugstores, c-stores, dollar stores, grocers, e-tailers, discounters, you name it—are locked in bloody, hand-to-hand combat.

Digital’s increasing influence on grocery is disrupting the consumer path to purchase, creating new opportunities for consumer products companies that can look beyond the in-store experience.

More than half (51%) of grocery sales are digitally-influenced, according to “The Grocery Digital Divide: How Consumer Products Companies Can Deliver on the New Digital Imperative,” a new survey from Deloitte, Chicago.

Here's how consumers’ shopping patterns as well as emerging marketing programs are impacting retail channel trends.

The days of the single stop for all your groceries is fading into the past along with other victims of revolutionary change in retail.

International grocery research organization IGD, France, and The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), Silver Spring, Md., reveals the 10 areas grocery retailers must focus on to ensure physical stores remain relevant for shoppers in an increasingly digital age.

Unata, Canada, surveyed over 500 shoppers in December 2016 from across the United States, qualifying the adoption of online grocery shopping in 2016 and the appetite for e-grocery in 2017.

Contrary to common perceptions, women now account for just 51% of grocery store shoppers, narrowing the gender gap in this key consumer packaged goods channel.

What could be said 20 years ago is even truer today—the U.S. food retailing business has never been more competitive.

Food Marketing Institute (FMI), Arlington, Va., and Nielsen, New York, released a preview of its "Digitally Engaged Food Shopper" analysis, an introductory set of insights that offers a comprehensive look into the behaviors, motivations and expectations of the digitally engaged food shopper.