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Snacking 2026: Balancing Purpose and Pleasure
Snacking isn’t merely a way to describe half of all eating occasions—it has become a flexible tool consumers use to navigate daily life. The latest…
The Practical Future of Food Tech
In recent years, the digital food landscape has focused largely on novelty and inspiration: helping consumers discover new products, recipes and trends.…
Live Q&A: Inside the Digital Food Culture Gap
This webinar explored how consumers want technology to fit into their everyday food experiences, with experts breaking down key behaviors, expectations, and…
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The Big Shift in Consumer Behavior: Meeting the Challenges of Cooking in the Time of COVID-19
Since mid-March, as millions of Americans have hunkered down at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, Hartman research indicates that consumers have adapted…
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Sustainability is shorthand for a complete moral system of cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes related to a sense of responsibility for the greater…
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Hartman’s COVID-19’s Impact on Eating Report Highlights
Learn moreValue in the Time of COVID-19: From the Old to the New Value Era
Prior to COVID-19, the most recent cataclysmic event that demanded a reexamination of value was the Great Recession (2007–2009). The Great Recession…
Learn moreHealthy, Ethical, Sustainable and Rooted in Folklore: Plant-Based Foods and Beverages Thrive During Pandemic
Living up to their energized disruption of established dairy and protein categories that built great momentum in 2019, plant-based foods, beverages and…
Learn moreValue in the Time of COVID-19 Report Highlights
This webinar will identify key questions and strategic implications that those in the food business must address as they pursue growth post-COVID-19.
Learn moreCOVID-19: Systems Under Stress. Shifts in Consumer Awareness and Adaptation in Response to the Challenges of the Pandemic
COVID-19’s disruptive impacts on communities, households, and individuals have triggered deeper examination of personal and collective approaches to…
Learn moreOrganic and Beyond: Consumers Seeking Local
Consumers continue to idealize eating locally. “Local” speaks to a number of things consumers value of which literal distance (being “close by”)…
Learn moreCOVID-19’s Impact on Eating
Leveraging the Spring 2020 wave of our Compass Eating & Drinking Occasions survey, this report highlights how COVID-19 is impacting Americans’ eating…
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