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How convenience stores and supermarkets are gunning for restaurants

A Deeper Dive: This week’s episode of the restaurant finance podcast looks at the retail sector and its push into prepared food. Also, what restaurants can learn from the closure of some of Amazon’s retail shops.

What are retailers doing to compete more aggressively with restaurants?

This week’s episode of A Deeper Dive looks at the retail sector, specifically convenience stores and grocers. I’m joined this week by Heather Lalley, the managing editor for Restaurant Business as well as sister publications CSP Daily News and Supermarket News.

We talk about how convenience stores are pushing into more prepared food options, including ways they are taking pages out of restaurants’ playbook.

We also discuss the growing demand for THC beverages, and why we haven’t seen many restaurants add these to their beverage menus.

But we talk extensively about the closures of Amazon’s Fresh and Go stores, and what kinds of lessons restaurants can take from those closures. 

We’re looking at the retail sector on A Deeper Dive, so check it out.

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