Express Checkout #84 - the latest in CPG, Retail, and eComm
CPG and Retail news from the week of 7/22/24
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🗞️ News from the week (7/22/24 - 7/28/24)
🔥Big News 🔥
Meati facing legal trouble. Alt-meat startup Meati Foods is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly falsely advertising its products as made from mushroom roots—when they’re actually made from a strain of filamentous fungus called Neurospora Crassa. Sounds a lot like a similar lawsuit filed against Quorn Foods in 2016…
The return of Boxed. Online wholesale retailer Boxed is back under new ownership after being purchased by MSG Distributors following its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The new owner is partnering with Spresso, an ecommerce tech company previously owned by…
