The Crisp Blog

If you’re following the food industry, you’ve probably seen your share of predictions and trends for 2021. It’s a year we’re all eager to understand, as COVID-19 has brought both temporary disruptions and long-term transformation to the retail market. But as a growing food brand, what does the 2021 outlook actually mean for your business?...

The rampant spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent actions taken to “flatten the curve” have disrupted daily life in ways and at speed never before experienced. One overarching characteristic of grocery shopping in the COVID-19 era is ‘switching’. McKinsey reports that 75% of consumers have tried a new store, different way of shopping, or brand...

The corona virus is raging among the world’s economies. ‘Flattening the curve’ is saving our health, but nearly everyone’s life has suddenly been cast up into the cloud. On Wednesday this week we had dinner with a couple of friends in New York. We were in Miami. Yesterday, my 10-year old son had karate training...

Global events like COVID-19 heighten the interconnectivity of our food supply chain and we are collaborating with our clients to navigate through this crisis. To that end, Crisp has made live exclusive European supermarket point-of-sale data available to help our clients understand the impact of COVID-19 and the demand, inventory & replenishment effects predicted to...

We have all received countless emails describing how various corporations are responding to Coronavirus, ranging from closings to additional PTO. I tasked our leadership team to formulate our own internal response in line with our core values: