Breaking down the snacking occasion
CHICAGO — The devil, as they say, is in the details. While most people agree that snacking is a significant food and beverage market trend, success requires understanding who the key customers are, what they prefer to snack on and when.
The market researcher 84.51º, Cincinnati, a business unit of Kroger Co., dedicated its May 2023 Consumer Digest report to better understanding the snack shopper. The report consists of responses from 450 verified Kroger shoppers who had shopped at one of the retailer’s banners during the past three months and focused on their snacking habits.
“Younger shoppers are the shoppers…
Canadian burn survivor’s 40-shade foundation line gets picked up by beauty giant Sephora
Basma Hameed is living her childhood dream to create her own cosmetics. She has developed a 40-shade foundation called Basma — now selling online and soon to be available in stores at beauty giant Sephora.
“It’s still hard to believe, but it’s incredible,” Hameed, 36, said of her success. “You don’t [expect] somebody who’s a burn survivor to launch a beauty brand.”
When she was two years old, living in her native country of Iraq, Hameed was burned by hot oil in a kitchen accident — leaving permanent scars on part of her face that made her a target for…
Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting takeaways: Warren Buffett’s remarks
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, criticized the government’s intervention in recent bank failures, saying on Saturday it averted what could have become an even bigger crisis.
Yet he said the US banking system had become too complicated — and it was not surprising that the banks failed. He said he’d been selling bank stocks, first at the start of the pandemic and more recently over the past six months as banks increasingly face mismanagement and respond to bad incentives.
“The American public doesn’t understand their banking system — and some people in Congress don’t understand it anymore…
