How shoppers can navigate grocery aisles during the highest inflation in decades

Corn farmers and ethanol makers look for a bump in demand from summertime E15 sales, but chicken producers fear higher grain costs.

Albertsons, the second-largest U.S. supermarket chain, said it is gaining market share as it manages inflation. Kroger and other supermarkets report higher sales.

Residents across China bracing for the prospect of Shanghai-like lockdowns raid supermarket shelves as Omicron cases spread.

War has hammered the country’s globally important farming sector, and left one poultry plant with a dangerous cleanup.

The grocery-delivery company rode a pandemic boom to become the biggest grocery-delivery app. Now with competition mounting, it is trying to forge its future.

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From boxes to boilers, the country’s industrial economy tries to keep assembly lines working amid materials shortages and logistics barriers.

Well-known brand names and flashy ad campaigns are no longer enough to command U.S. consumers’ loyalty in grocery stores.

Gas stations, grocery stores and doctors’ offices draw interest from venture-backed startups, which see an opening because big asset managers typically avoid such properties.

The food-delivery company, which thrived when pandemic lockdowns took hold, dropped its valuation to $24 billion, compared with $39 billion about a year ago.

Smaller harvests loom from Argentina to Indonesia, and developing countries are bracing for higher food costs.

Nebraska cattlemen plan to build their own butchering plant to bypass America’s meat-processing giants, which they say underpay for livestock even as inflation drives up food prices.

Shortages of fuel, fertilizer and workers caused by the Russian invasion will shrink an annual bounty that countries rely on around the world. “We want to plant, but the situation is totally unpredictable.”

The agricultural supply chain coped well with the pandemic, but it will struggle with this latest shock at a time of much higher energy prices.

The world’s wheat stockpiles were already low and prices the highest in a decade after two years of poor growing weather when the attack on Ukraine jammed up Black Sea trading.

Domestic and international food manufacturers, distributors and aid workers are mobilizing to keep grocery stores and pharmacies in Ukraine open and shelves stocked.

Brazil is the top importer of Russian fertilizer and the largest producer of soy, coffee and sugar. If its farmers have to pay significantly more for fertilizer, the cost of agricultural products is likely to climb, driving up global inflation.

The supermarket company reported better-than-expected quarterly results, said costs have continued to climb for some categories of food that it sells.

Amazon.com is planning to close dozens of bookstores and other retail locations opened in recent years to highlight bestselling products.