Where to buy Hispanic/Latino Groceries in the United States

The Hispanic population in the United States is projected to double until 2050, to over $100 million. This trend will represent a big opportunity for grocery stores that cater to this community.
Already there are over 50 supermarket chains that sell mostly Latino groceries, and the store number increases every year.

Some of the most important Hispanic Grocery Store chains that can be found in the United States:
Baja Ranch Supermarket
Carnicerias Jimenez – Chicago area
Cardenas Supermarkets – with stores in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, California.
Compare Foods – stores in New York City, Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and North Carolina.
Fiesta Mart – Fiesta currently has 60 stores open in the Houston, Austin, and Dallas-Fort Worth markets.
Food Bazaar Supermarkets – with stores in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York.
Food City – stores in Arizona.
Foodarama – 10 grocery stores throughout Houston and the surrounding areas.
González Northgate – 40 stores in the Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County, California.
Ideal Market – stores in Pennsylvania.
Presidente – 30 stores across Miami-Dade to Palm Beach County, Florida.
Los Altos Ranch Market – 10 stores in the Southwest.
R Ranch Markets – stores located in the Southern California.
El Rancho Supermarket – Garland, Dallas, Austin, Lewisville, Cockrell Hill, Fort Worth, Airlington and Odessa, Texas.
Rancho Markets – stores opened in West Valley City, Kearns, Provo, Magna, Ogden, Salt Lake City – Utah. Savings available every week at Rancho Markets Weekly Ad
El Rio Grande Latin Market – stores are located in Texas.
El Super – with stores in Los Angeles, Southern Nevada and Phoenix. Savings available every week at El Super Weekly Ads
Vallarta Supermarkets – 47 stores through out California.

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Festival Foods will start selling natural pork and organic chicken

The success of the grass-fed beef program is prompting Festival Foods retailer to expand its offerings to natural pork and organic chicke“We want to create a destination point for the guest that requires or desires that type of product.

"We are getting many good guest comments on the grass-fed beef, from the standpoint of both edibility/quality and health attributes", Mike Zimmerman, senior meat and seafood director at Festival Foods.

Festival Foods had introduced grass-fed beef in all stores at the end of last year. With the price for organic food coming down, customers are demanding more organic selections in the meat, dairy or produce departments.

Festival Foods operates more than 20 full-service, state-of-the art supermarkets and employs more than 5,000 full and part-time associates.

FreshDirect offers 1-hour delivery

Online retailer FreshDirect has launched an app called FoodKick, that offers food selections, and one-hour delivery.
The app is geared to urban consumers, and features daily food selections, customizable meal ideas and solutions, produce, meat, fish, dairy.

FreshDirect will also highlight new and limited time offerings from partners like Cocktail Courier, Indie Fresh, Hungry Root and Mille-feuille.
The one-hour delivery is only available to customers in Brooklyn and Queens. First-time customers will get free delivery for the first 30 days on qualified orders.

FreshDirect is an online retailer that offers groceries to residences and offices in the New York City metropolitan area. FreshDirect prepares groceries and meals for its customers, with a manufacturing practice called Just In Time that reduces waste and improves quality and freshness.

Walmart will close 269 stores

Walmart had declared that it would close 269 stores, 154 of them in the US, including all of its 102 Walmart Express small-format stores.
The decision to close the stores follows a review of the retailer's portfolio initiated in October to ensure its stores were aligned with its strategy, according to the company.
The stores to be closed are less than 1% of the retailer stores worldwide, which stood at over 11,000. The closures are expected to impact 16,000 employees, including 10,000 in the US.
Walmart declared that it will open more than 300 stores around the world next year.
The retailer is the biggest in the world, with revenues of about $500 billion.

99 Ranch Market will expand to the East Coast

99 Ranch Market is going to open its first East Coast stores in Edison, Jersey City, and Hackensack. The store will provide the freshest produce and highest quality grocery products at incredible prices to the residents in the east coast.
99 Ranch Market was established in 1984, with its first store in Westminster, California. With the support of loyal customers and local communities, 99 Ranch Market is now the leading Asian Supermarket chains in the United States, with over 40 store locations in California, Nevada, Texas and Washington State. From fresh seafood and produce to incredible selection of groceries and frozen or prepared foods.
99 Ranch Market is hiring employees for all department, management trainees, bakers, and cashiers. The store offers great benefit program which include 401(k), comprehensive medical, dental and life insurance plans.

Aldi will introduce healthier checklanes

Aldi will introduce healthier checklanes at its stores, stocked with single serve nuts, trail mixes, dried fruit and granola bars instead of chocolate and candy. The healthier checklanes will be introduced at about 1,500 locations, by year's end.
The retailer checkout zones will offer fruit and nuts instead of chocolate and candy.
In an effort to offer better food options to its customers, Aldi’s private label products, are now free of certified synthetic colors, partially hydrogenated oils and added MSG.
Aldi's milk is free of artificial growth hormones for years, according to the retailer, and it has a committed to ensure that the milk used to make yogurts, sour cream and cottage cheese, has no artificial growth hormones.
Aldi is one of the biggest discount retailer in the world, with operations in Germany, UK, US, Australia.

McDonald's Sales Go Up Powered by All-Day Breakfast Menu

McDonald's had posted its best U.S. quarterly sales in nearly four years, driven by all-day breakfast menu sales.
The fast food chain had struggled lately to remain relevant with consumers, amid intense competition from other fast food restaurants.
Earlier this month, McDonald's introduced a value menu that is expected to increase the company sales. Its new McPick 2 menu allows customers to pick a pair of items for a total of $2 from four choices: mozzarella sticks, small fries and the McDouble and McChicken sandwiches.
McDonald's reported quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.31 a share, up from $1.1 billion, or $1.13 a share, a year earlier. Revenue declined 3.5% to $6.34 billion, in the quarter.

Walmart Canada will charge customers 5 cents for plastic bags

Walmart Canada will begin to charge customers in British Columbia five cents for every plastic bag, from February 9, 2016. Over the coming months all Walmart Canada stores will charge customers for the use of plastic bags.
The reusable bags will be sold for 25 cents. Walmart Canada has a zero waste commitment, and with this move the company expects to be closer of achieving this target.
Walmart Canada affirms that it has already removed 72% of its waste from municipal landfills. Some of the revenue from the plastic bag fee will be used to support plastic film recycling initiatives.
Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world, with about $500 billion in revenues, ahead of warehouse club retailer Costco and Carrefour from France.

Top Fast Food Consumption Countries

Fast Food restaurants are popular all over the world. The typical menu items common in all fast food restaurants include fries, pizza, wings, burgers, nuggets, hamburgers, salads, sandwiches, and more.
Food served in fast food restaurants is cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot; is finished and packaged to order; and is usually available ready to take away, from a limited menu.
Here are the top 10 countries with the most fast food consumption.

1. United States
2. France
3. Canada
4. United Kingdom
5. South Korea
6. Japan
7. Austria
8. Germany
9. Switzerland
10. Japan

All countries are wealthy, which means that in order to eat at fast food restaurants you need to have money. In poor countries people don't have enough money to pay for fast food, and in this countries people tend to eat cooked meals at home.