Christine Blank, a veteran freelance writer and editor, covers all aspects of the seafood industry, from fishing to processing to selling and serving the final product. When she is not writing for SeafoodSource, Christine gets to taste scrumptious seafood dishes at U.S. restaurants for her food and travel blog, Flavorful Excursions (www.flavorfulexcursions.net). Christine loves to eat seafood of any kind, but lobster, crab and crawfish are among her favorites. In addition to SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business, Christine’s articles have been published in hundreds of leading magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press.
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Chicken of the Sea Frozen Foods (COSFF) is making its Responsibly Raised Shrimp available to other U.S. retailers and foodservice customers after successfully piloting the products in Food Lion and Hannaford stores earlier this year.
The new line of products stems from a shrimp decarbonization project between Samut Sakhon,Thailand-based Thai Union – Chicken of the Sea’s parent company – and environmental nonprofit The Nature
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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon recently said that the massive global retailer will likely have to raise prices due to tariffs instituted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
In response, Trump said that Walmart should just “eat the tariffs.”
“Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain,” Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social. “Between Walmart and China they
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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.-based Darden Restaurants abruptly closed 15 of its Bahama Breeze restaurants – around one-third of its total locations.
“Closing a restaurant is a difficult choice because it impacts our team members and guests,” Darden said in an email to Nation’s Restaurant News. “However, we believe this is the right decision because it will allow Bahama Breeze to focus on its highest-performing
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U.S. grocery chain Kroger has been accused of overcharging shoppers via price discrepancies on numerous products.
The alleged price discrepancies recently came to light through a monthslong investigation conducted by Consumer Reports, The Guardian, and the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN), which itself came about after Kroger workers in the U.S. state of Colorado who, during labor union negotiations, alleged widespread errors on
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Harvest Sherwood declares bankruptcy, accuses Sprouts Farmers Market of driving it toward insolvency
Eastern Seafood Distributors and Terra Austral are among the creditors owed hundreds of millions of dollars by Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.-based Harvest Sherwood as the distributor works through bankruptcy proceedings it alleges were caused deliberately by grocery chain Sprouts Farmers Markets.
The USD 4 billion (EUR 3.6 billion) wholesale food distributor, which closed down all of its warehouses and laid off around 1,500 employees in February,
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Some seafood-focused restaurant chains in the U.S., such as Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.-based Red Lobster and several chains operated by Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.-based restaurant group Bloomin’ Brands, have struggled in recent quarters, but many others are expanding, signaling a mixed outlook for the industry amid economic uncertainty.
Revenues for Bloomin’ Brands, which operates Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill, Carrabba’s
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Seafood sales at U.S. retail stores maintained their momentum from March and surged again in April, largely thanks to continued tariff concerns leading to stockpiling behavior and a late Easter holiday this year.
Frozen seafood sales shot up 11.4 percent by value to USD 673 million (EUR 604 million) in the month, surpassing all other frozen proteins, while sales by volume in the category grew 3.3 percent, according to new Circana data analyzed
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