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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After announcing earlier this month it would slash around 200 jobs, Leeds, U.K.-based grocery chain Asda announced it is also cutting around 6,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) over the next year.
The operator of 580 supermarkets, nearly 500 convenience stores, and around 770 gas stations across the U.K., Asda recently reported that its like-for-like sales – excluding fuel – declined 3.4 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of
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Following the success of its Traditional Salmon Caviar in recent years, Monroe, Washington, U.S.A.-based seafood brand Echo Falls Seafoods is offering a sneak peak of its new Wasabi Salmon Caviar at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America (SENA), which is set to take place in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., from 16 to 18 March.
Echo Falls, which Ocean Beauty Seafoods rebranded as a standalone company last fall, will also give SENA attendees a sneak
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Overall U.S. retail and grocery sales fell slightly month-over-month in February as consumer concern about tariffs and food inflation tightened spending, but despite the drop sales still increased year-over-year, according to new data.
Sales at grocery and beverage stores fell 0.07 percent from January to February, but soared 4.08 percent year over year unadjusted, according to the National Retail Federation’s CNBC/NRF Retail
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