Retail

Rind Snacks has closed its online store and narrowed the brand’s portfolio focus to Apple Chips, to simplify operations and put more resources toward manufacturing, said Matt Weiss, founder of Rind and chief growth officer at Keep It REAL Foods.

In distribution news, GOOD GOOD gets its no added-sugar product in Target as meat stick brands Jack Link’s and Lorissa’s Kitchen also enter the mass channel.

The hummus category is crowded, yet restaurant-rooted CPG newcomer Zahav Foods is already working up the ranks.

After eight years in business, Lauren Chew’s vegan, gluten-free superfood cookie brand Love + Chew is still going. But as consumer interests shift from health-forward to clean label, permissible indulgence, she has begun building a second cookie brand to meet those demands.

Clean label, fresh food brand Soupergirl is gearing up to meet soup season demands with an expansion to Costco stores across the country in addition to Giant and Shoprite stores this fall.

This week, the podcast takes the temperature of the shot category, celebrity chefs impact on meal kits and C4’s beer-flavored energy drink.

Allergen-friendly cookie maker Heavenly Hunks is moving beyond the category for the first time and extending deeper into the inclusive eating space through a new sub-brand, Dupe Loops.

Impossible Foods has brought its plant-based protein platform into U.K. retail stores for the first time.

Online grocery competitors Instacart and Gopuff are joining forces, as the companies announced today that Gopuff will join the Instacart Marketplace and utilize the Instacart Carrots Ads platform to power advertising on its own app in the U.S.

Clean-label food brand Eat Happy Kitchen is going deeper into retail, expanding its flagship pasta sauce line in California and bringing its high protein Cheese Bites snacks to brick-and-mortar accounts for the first time with a rollout into HomeGoods stores nationwide.