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CJR Wholesale Shines at the GIC 2024 Tradeshow

CJR Wholesale Shines at the GIC 2024 Tradeshow

Toronto, ON – CJR Wholesale, Ontario’s leading independent wholesale grocery distributor, made a notable impression at the 2024 Grocery Innovations Canada (GIC) Tradeshow on October 29-30. Known as a one-stop shop for high-quality grocery, frozen, and dairy products,...

CJR Wholesale Shines at the GIC 2024 Tradeshow

Toronto, ON – CJR Wholesale, Ontario’s leading independent wholesale grocery distributor, made a notable impression at the 2024 Grocery Innovations Canada (GIC) Tradeshow on October 29-30. Known as a one-stop shop for high-quality grocery, frozen, and dairy products,...

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Ensuring Fresh, High-Quality Ingredients for Your Restaurant

Ensuring Fresh, High-Quality Ingredients for Your Restaurant

At CJR Wholesale & DairyCentral, we understand that the success of your restaurant depends on serving fresh, high-quality ingredients to your customers. That’s why we’ve made it our priority to ensure every product leaving our warehouse meets the highest standards...

News & Industry Updates

Shifting Customer Trends – Making The Most of Change

Shifting Customer Trends – Making The Most of Change

With the ever-changing landscape of working and living styles, Grocery channels are feeling the impact of new customer expectations, going beyond product availability and e-commerce. Understanding these consumer behaviours and trending habits can help retailers...

CJR Wins Partner Of The Year!

CJR Wins Partner Of The Year!

DCI, in association with the Canadian Independent Grocery Buyers Alliance (CIGBA), celebrated its 40th Anniversary Mix & Mingle and Star Awards last Wednesday with a virtual gala presented by Howell Data Systems. Its retail members and supplier partners were...

Tips & Insights

Are Consumers Outsourcing Their Connections to Food?

Are Consumers Outsourcing Their Connections to Food?

We exist in a culture that celebrates being busy — prizing hours logged at the office or school, as well as juggling extracurriculars, hobbies and appointments. In all that hustle and bustle, we tend to sacrifice our relationship with food. Technology, services and...

Canadian Thanksgiving Traditions are Shifting

Canadian Thanksgiving Traditions are Shifting

Time’s and traditions have changed, and the Canadian Thanksgiving table reflects that. Gone are the days of the traditional meat and potatoes meal cooked by Mother for her nuclear family. The Turkey Farmers of Canada brought this new normal to light as they reimagined...

How Millennials are Disrupting the Food Industry

How Millennials are Disrupting the Food Industry

We are living and eating in a millennial world. Thanks to the largest consumer demographic (those born in the early 1980s to 2004) we have seen major shifts in the way food is ordered, prepped, and consumed over the last few years.  It shouldn’t come as a surprise...

The Beyond Meat Craze & the Future of Food

The Beyond Meat Craze & the Future of Food

  Beyond Meat is on everyone’s lips these days, and we don’t just mean literally. Since last year when they signed a deal with burger chain A&W, Beyond Meat has exploded in the Canadian Market. Initially, A&W was flooded with such high demands from their...

5 Grocery Trends on the Rise for Summer 2019

5 Grocery Trends on the Rise for Summer 2019

Canadian food trends for last summer included fried chicken, meal kits, mushrooms and super lattes. Here are some of the major hits so far this year: Plant-Based Cuisine With environmental concerns rising, sustainable diets are at an all-time high. The 2019 Food Guide...

Banning Single-use Plastic in Canada

Banning Single-use Plastic in Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced this June that Canada plans to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021. "We need to cover all of Canada with this decision,” he said. But what falls under this ban? Single-use plastic is exactly what it sounds like: anything...

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