Consumers know when they're purchasing organic food and beverages in the United States because each product has the official green symbol introduced in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Organic Program. That means there...

Recessions aren't usually good times for new product launches. Sure enough, in this downturn consumers have been sticking to familiar products on grocery lists and avoiding impulse buys...

It wasn't the kind of article you'd normally see in a store circular, certainly not from Trader Joe's. In that retailer's most recent “Fearless Flyer,” the whimsical publication that typically promotes the chain's unique products and values, one...

A miscalculation of promotional investment was cited earlier this month as the reason Safeway misstepped in its first-quarter results for the year...

In 2006, when Supervalu announced that it was going to acquire most of the Albertsons chain, the move was hailed by some analysts as a brilliant stroke of deal-making...

As it turned out, the 2009 H1N1 Flu didn't become the horrific pandemic many feared...

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It's hard to predict the future. That's why no one could forecast that Future-Connect, the long-awaited event from Food Marketing Institute scheduled for this week in Dallas, would be postponed indefinitely because of travel concerns related to...

Did you know the original Crock-Pot was based on a hippie bean cooker? That timing is critical in selling (and eating) sweet corn, because breaking the shank starts the process of turning the sugar into starch? Or that true celiacs make up only 1%...

Consider it part marketing, part empathy...