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The Great Lettuce Crash: How a Food Scare Rewrote the Grocery Basket Overnight
Attain’s purchase data shows consumers didn’t buy less lettuce after the cyclospora outbreak — they stopped buying it altogether. What comes next depends on whether brands can do something they’ve rarely managed in a food safety crisis: earn trust back.
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