HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- A newly opened ShopRite supermarket here is smoking its own meats, cheeses and seafood -- a rarity on densely populated Long Island -- using an in-store smokehouse oven located in the meat...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- A new 61,000-square-foot ShopRite unit that opened here last month is showcasing ethnic products in an aisle signed "Kosherfest Happauge."Kosher is a niche that store owner/designer Harry Janson...
"If it's hot, if it's hotter, if it's hottest, it's going to sell."So said Sandy Kapoor, a professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Calif., in her remarks to an audience at Natural Foods Expo East...
WORTHINGTON, Ohio -- Worthington Foods here has acquired the Harvest Burger trademark and line of products from Archer Daniels Midland Co., Decatur, Ill., for $9.3 million in common stock.Harvest Burger joins the...
As the winter holidays approach, retailers are gearing up for brisk sales in frozen pies, cakes and pie crusts."We've got everybody cutting the product in at retail, and ads set up. Thanksgiving is where you want to...
MARSHALL, Minn. -- Freschetta Pizza, the newest frozen pizza line from Tony's Pizza Service here, made the 1998 "Top Ten" list of New Product Pacesetters, compiled by Information Resources, Inc., Chicago.Freschetta...
Supermarkets -- still fiercely competing with mass merchants and club stores for detergent sales -- have begun stocking larger sizes and putting more effort into promoting them."Larger sizes are in demand, and give...
Restaurant-style pizza continues to fuel sales in the frozen aisle, according to retailers polled by SN.While self-rising crust is the major feature of most new products that have grown the category, innovations are...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Fred Meyer Inc. here is testing a new humidor display of Gran Reserve Dominican-made cigars in four of its units here and three units in Alaska.According to Jeff Reece, managing director of Jenovia...
SAN RAMON, Calif. -- The Frozen Food Council of Northern California here has teamed up with Raley's Supermarkets & Drug Centers and Save Mart Supermarkets to create a "Kidz Zone" in the freezer section as part of this...