Supermarket

Matzot, vegetables, and a washing machine: Passover 2026 marks a new era of Israeli consumerism

The pre-Passover shopping season begins, highlighting a key trend: Expensive and complex products, led by electrical appliances, are rapidly moving into food retail chains.

"Consumers are shifting from category-based buying to choosing what’s cheapest, closest, and most convenient."
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Passover wallet battle: The most cost-effective supermarket chain ahead of the holiday

Danone PRO Berry Layers Yogurt.

New on the shelf: Dubai Halva and Danone Protein Yogurt

An illustration of an Israeli supermarket.

Supermarket tourism: Gen Z travelers skip landmarks for local aisles


Israeli grocer Rami Levy gives himself and his daughter major salary raises

Rami Levy calls a shareholders meeting to approve a 42.5% raise for his daughter, the company's deputy marketing manager, while many workers make minimum wage or volunteer.

Rami Levy

Israel could permit sale of wine in Israel after 11 p.m. on Thursdays

The new legislation will ease Shabbat and holiday preparations for consumers, particularly those who are busy working and studying.

THE KNESSET Finance Committee’s incoming chairman, United Torah Judaism’s Moshe Gafni, presents an anti-economic bill that challenges the capitalist zeal of incoming finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Greater store loyalty in customers who use regular checkouts rather than self-checkout - study

The findings could help inform retailers on whether they should install or remove self-checkout systems and how to manage the self-checkout systems better to ensure positive customer experiences.

 Pictured: A customer uses a normal checkout service (illustrative).

Grapevine January 7th, 2024: First-hand information of living nightmare

Their accounts detailed over 10 hours of a life-threatening race: escaping by car and foot, seeking improvised shelter, and ducking from gunfire.

 WUJS students with Supernova music festival survivors

Shufersal cancels deal to set up SPAR supermarkets in Israel

Shufersal said it had canceled a deal with SPAR to set up a network of the Dutch food retail chain's stores in Israel, citing regulatory restrictions.

A WOMAN pushes children in a shopping cart in front of a Shufersal ‘Sheli’ in Ma’aleh Adumim

11-year-old girl fights off armed robber using a simple loaf of bread

Viral footage captures a knife-wielding robber running away from supermarket after encountering a fearless young girl armed with bread and pumpkin juice.

Robbery

Supermarket surnames: Where iconic food brands get their names from

Let’s step back in time and take a look at some of the men and women whose foresight and fortitude have made them and their products household names.

 A woman shops at a supermarket in Jerusalem.

Venomous 'banana spider' scare temporarily closes Austrian supermarket

The REWE-Group also stated that they had brought in a specialist to identify the spider and that the shop would remain closed until the spider had been identified.

 Illustrative image of a banana spider.

As Carrefour sets up shop in Israel, Max Stock heads to Portugal

The Carrefour effect: Shufersal, Tiv Taam and Max Stock have all expanded operations and opened new branches

 Shoppers near the new Carrefour supermarket in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 8, 2023.

Carrefour's Israel launch could spark much-needed market competition

Recent import reforms have paved the way for the international retail giant to potentially revolutionize the Israeli market.

 The new Carrefour supermarket opened in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 8, 2023.