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Volume 100 Issue 3
28 Features
20 SPECIAL REPORT
42 PROTEIN REPORT
COVER STORY
A Whole New World
Seven ways the COVID-19 pandemic has changed food retailing.
Seafood’s Next Wave
28 How Hy-Vee Plans to Grow
CEO Randy Edeker shares how the pandemic has shaped the Midwestern grocer going forward.
As the pandemic winds down, retailers should focus on education to keep sales flowing.
38 RETAILER DEEP DIVE
Day One At Walmart
How the nation’s largest retailer is reimagining its business model in ways that were once unthinkable.
On the Cover: Randy Edeker, chairman, CEO and president of Hy-Vee Inc., in Hy-Vee’s corporate history pavilion and conference center.
Departments 8 EDITOR’S NOTE
The Great Shakeout Awaits 10 IN-STORE EVENTS CALENDAR
May 2021 14 MENU TRENDS
Navigating the Seas of Seafood 4
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42 16 NIELSEN’S SHELF STOPPERS
18 ALL’S WELLNESS
Prepared Foods
Focus on Frozen Foods
17 MINTEL GLOBAL NEW PRODUCTS
84 EDITORS’ PICKS FOR INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS
Nonchocolate Confectionery
86 AHEAD OF WHAT’S NEXT
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The Women Who Fed America