Chris Ytuarte

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DON'T SQUEEZE THE DAIRY, REPS SAY
Jan 08, 2001
WILTON, Conn. -- The exploding retail dairy business isn't getting the space it needs in the store, and these restrictions are impeding growth throughout the category, concluded a panel of industry representatives.The...
PULP FRICTION
Jan 08, 2001
Orange juice seems to be everywhere these days, both in-store and in the marketplace, buoyed by federally approved health claims and new manufacturing and packing initiatives designed to boost appeal beyond breakfast...
FRESH START
Dec 25, 2000
The in-store presentation of fresh foods took impressive steps forward in 2000, helped along by improved packaging, better fixtures, more service and customer interaction, product sampling and a renewed emphasis on...
RICE UPDATES CAVIAR, FLORAL SELECTIONS IN HOUSTON
Dec 18, 2000
HOUSTON -- A recent one-two punch of food and floral upgrades at Rice Epicurean Market here has boosted the company's high-end retail edibles department with specialty caviar kiosks and reinvigorated its custom floral...
HEPATITIS ANXIETY
Dec 04, 2000
Hepatitis A has the potential to become the next E. coli 0157:H7, salmonella or listeria monocytogenes -- causing illness in customers, bad press and the scrutiny of an official investigation.Yet the very nature of...
FRESH SUMMIT 2000
Nov 20, 2000
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Retailers who want to expand their businesses through consumer-direct, on-line perishable sales need to know exactly whom their shoppers are going to be, deliver on specific needs of that...
RETAILERS HAVE PICK OF NEW WEB SITE CROP
Oct 30, 2000
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- With the launch of www.eatmorebananas.com by the International Banana Association here, the population of consumer-direct produce Web sites continues to grow on the Internet as more and more...
STAR QUALITY
Oct 16, 2000
LOS ANGELES -- In sunny Southern California, where freshness is the star on any retailer's marquee, Bristol Farms is delivering an Oscar-winning performance, particularly in produce.The 12-unit independent retailer...
RETAILER, CUSTOMERS "HAIL" CAESAR SALAD
Oct 09, 2000
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Even Brutus would have feared this Caesar.Raley's supermarket here, along with Fresh Express, Salinas, Calif., recently tried for the record books by creating a 3,000-pound fresh Caesar salad...
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