People are cooking and baking more. They’re looking for new kitchen tools and appliances to bring their recipes to life. Carol Angrisani explains how retailers are responding. Plus, Dollar General hires a chief medical officer...Sprouts sponsors the MyFitnessPal app...CVS launches more better-for-you foods. Moves like these show that retailers are getting more strategic with their health and wellness initiatives. Graham Leary reports. Click here for video.

Private brands are a significant driver of trust in a retailer, according to “Brand Ambition: Food and Beverage Private Brands & Beyond,” a new report from consumer research firm The Hartman Group. Shelley Balanko, Ph.D., Hartman's Senior Vice President, discusses these and other study findings with PLMA Live!’s Carol Angrisani. Click here for video.

How to Become a Foodservice Destination

Changing consumer behavior has boosted demand for prepared foods that take the guesswork out of meal prep. Find out how supermarkets are responding in this exclusive PLMA Live! report from Maureen Donoghue. Click here for video.

Consumers are cooking more family meals and entertaining their friends more at home. Cookware and bakeware are an integral part of that changing domestic lifestyle and retailers in grocery and other channels are adding store brand SKUs for a wide array of kitchen essentials, tools and gadgets to meet the growing demand.

Shoppers love packaging convenience and portable packaging for food on-the-go, but they also want what's good for the environment, including source reduction, fewer plastics, more recycled materials and newer sustainable technologies.

Alesandra Ponce, Whole Foods Market’s Global Category Merchant, discusses how the retailer differentiates its plant-based assortment from other retailers. Plus, hear what she says about Whole Foods’ plant-based trend predictions and how it caters to flexitarians. All this and more in this month’s PLMA Live! exclusive interview with host Carol Angrisani. Click here for video.