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1 With New Menu Items, Burger King Hopes to Add Value
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2 Hershey Co. Is Raising Its Prices
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3 McDonald's Dollar Menu Here to Stay
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4 Get Ready to Start Spending More at the Grocery Store
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7 Burger King Goes High-End
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8 When Buying Groceries, Do You Visit More Than One Store?
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9 How Much Will You Spend This Thanksgiving?
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10 Food Sizes Shrinking, Prices Stay the Same
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11 What's Your Favorite Grocery Store of 2008?
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12 Tough Economy Forces McDonald's to Reevaluate Dollar Menu
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13 The Year's Best Grocery Store
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14 Safeway to Roll Out Private Labels Nationwide
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15 Come Spring, Avocado Prices Will Be the Pits
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16 Boston Market Latest Chain to Promote Cheaper Meals
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17 Organics Industry Plagued by Recession and Scandal
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18 Whole Foods Falls Short of Success In UK
No, that isn't your eyesight going bad on you: while you're paying the same old price for your favorite packaged foods, many of them are getting smaller. According to The New York Times, food companies, still sensitive to the country's high unemployment rate, have adjusted for rising costs of materials by camouflaging foods in smaller packages rather than simply hiking prices. Among the guilty Read more
Florida's inclement weather this Winter is no pulp fiction. Due to a deep freeze in January that impacted tomatoes and citrus, Tropicana is saying it has no choice but to raise prices on its orange juice. In May, Tropicana plans to keep the price steady on its Pure Premium orange juice half-gallon cartons, but reduce their size from 64 to 59 ounces. Its gallon-sized jugs will stay the same in Read more
In the mood for a brew? Be forewarned, a cold one could cost you. Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors have both announced plans to hike beer prices. Falling sales and higher costs of commodities like barley and hops have forced them to compensate by raising prices. In a statement Tuesday, US-Belgian company Anheuser-Busch InBev said it will raise stickers "across different price tiers" in "a Read more
In a small indication that America may be on a slow road to economic recovery, consumer foods marketers are beginning to reintroduce larger packages at the same price. Last year, manufacturers were hit by high fuel and commodity prices, so to avoid blatantly transferring cost increases to consumers, manufacturers such as Hellman's, Tropicana, and Kellogg's quietly began downsizing packages. Ben Read more
There's been some heated public debates between competing brands. The latest two companies to join the feuding? Ice cream giants Haagen-Dazs and Ben and Jerry's. To pay for the high costs of natural and top-quality ingredients, Haagen-Dazs has reduced the size of its pints from 16 to 14 ounces. Despite the decrease in packaging, Haagen-Dazs still calls its container a "pint." Ben and Jerry's is Read more
Burger King is continuing its strategy of adding petite-sized, lower-cost items to its menu at a time when food prices have soared but consumers are strapped for cash. The fast food chain announced today that it will roll out new burger and breakfast "shots," or burgers in miniature sizes. The sliders will come in a two-pack ($1.39) and a six-pack ($4.09) and will consist of a flame-broiled Read more
It's always seemed a little too effortless to finish off a box of Girl Scout cookies, but if they are a little easier to dust off this year, it's not just in your head. To offset the cost increases of cookie ingredients, Girl Scouts of the USA made the decision to shrink its cookie boxes by a centimeter, package fewer cookies into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs, and reduce the Read more
From rising avocado prices to the McDonald's Dollar Menu falling on hard times, over the last year, every section of the food industry has paid the price of cost increases. One segment of the food world, however, seems to have taken an opposite turn. Prices of dairy products have seen a downward trend, as the weakening global economy has caused demand to decrease for US exports like milk. This Read more
It's only January, and the organic industry is already having a bad year. Not only have producers been losing consumers due to the hefty price tag of organic food, but the industry has struggled to maintain its integrity. With organic feed prices at an all-time high, farmers in the UK are lobbying the government to temporarily relax organic feed standards to assist livestock producers who are Read more
Guacamole lovers, beware: The crystal ball isn't looking so bright for avocados. Hot weather at the peak of avocado-growing season last June means this Spring California farmers expect to have the smallest avocado crop in the last 10 to 20 years. Americans buy almost 1 billion pounds of avocados annually, and this number is increasing. Unfortunately, California farmers, which normally supply 85 Read more
