In addition to milk and other ingredients, a lot of thought has gone into Wal-Mart's Great Value all-natural sour cream. So much thought, in fact, that after close collaboration with its dairy supplier partners, Wal-Mart launched 12 sustainability...
A remodeled Fred Meyer location in Portland, Ore., is the first store in the Kroger Co. chain to earn LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, a spokeswoman for the chain told SN. The store, which opened last month and...
It's been three years since Wal-Mart Stores announced its intent to squeeze inefficiencies from its supply chain by eliminating packaging waste. By reducing packaging by 5% by 2013, it estimates it will wring a collective $11 billion in...
This month marks the one-year anniversary of a major energy-saving project conducted by Niemann Foods here in 35 of its 36 supermarkets and nine franchised Sav-A-Lot stores that it operates. By October, if not sooner, the chain, which also runs...