Eric Lazare
Editor
Eric Lazare is editor of Snackapalooza. He covers snack, beverage, and CPG as they move through grocery and convenience retail — facings, cooler sets, private label, recalls, and the suppliers who win space. His files are bylined on this site and start from primary documents, on-the-record comments, and original observation. He writes for buyers and category managers who already live in the snack and beverage P&L.
Bylines
- Regular $4.319 and diesel $6.285, week ended Sept. 14 — September 21, 2026
- PepsiCo says 18% of people connect it to brands beyond Pepsi — September 21, 2026
- Regular $4.071 and diesel $5.599 still pay the facing — September 20, 2026
- Energy, water, and fountain are not one war — September 16, 2026
- Store brand in a c-store is a control tool, not a CPG company — September 15, 2026
- Energy is still a door slot, not a lifestyle campaign — September 13, 2026
- Food-at-home is the comparison set for the bag next to the pump — September 11, 2026
- Couche-Tard grew energy and still cut price to protect the stop — September 10, 2026
- Thirteen thousand Żabka stores do not reset a U.S. cooler — September 5, 2026
- Casey’s merchant says Wawa and Sheetz made the gas-station meal normal — August 29, 2026
- A dispensed program is a person on the clock, not a door — August 27, 2026
- A price pack has to beat the grocery print and the facing next to it — August 13, 2026
- Żabka’s food model is a franchise kitchen, not a U.S. roller grill — July 31, 2026
- Fountain is a labor line. The bottle is not — July 16, 2026
- Energy and water are different cooler doors — July 2, 2026