Private-label baby and kids' lines can be more than just healthy, less expensive alternatives to national brands.

Will retailers' desire for stores be what finally gets them to adopt electronic shelf labels? ESLs plastic modules that display digital prices and replace paper price tags on shelf edges have been around since the early 1990s, promising to...

Green household products are making a clean sweep through supermarkets. Eco-friendly cleaning products from small, niche companies are gaining widespread distribution in mainstream stores, while major national brands are reformulating products to...

In less than a year, supermarkets will be awash with compact laundry detergents.

The booming market for local foods and the ongoing expansion of organics both indicate that many consumers are supporting social causes with their shopping dollars. But in a broader sense, these trends illustrate that a growing number of shoppers...

Retailers are voicing support for the Wal-Mart-led change in the laundry detergent category, but they say a major education campaign is needed to explain how to use the new concentrated products headed for store shelves. Wal-Mart announced last...

In a series of presentations and moves over the past three weeks, Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., pushed its widely publicized Sustainability 360 environmental agenda aimed at its suppliers, employees and customers as well as its own...

Some call the design ugly, while others find the energy savings beautiful. Most agree that sales of compact fluorescent light bulbs have taken off. Compact fluorescents commonly referred to as CFLs are being pushed by a number of initiatives...

Publix Super Markets' first freestanding Greenwise Market here is an upscale twist on the company's traditional supermarkets, with additional epicurean flair and eco-friendly features. The 39,000-square-foot store in the new Legacy Park Shopping...

Among the many complexities of operating a supermarket, perhaps the one most taken for granted is keeping the building at a comfortable temperature and humidity. With shoppers continuously entering and leaving a store, outside air invariably...