Thanks to the 2009 Stimulus Act, Whole Foods Market here will be using 61 fuel-cell-powered forklifts in its Landover, Md., distribution center in 2010.
Sam's Club has announced plans to expand the number of its stores offering Fair Trade Certified bananas from 60 locations to 100. Wal-Mart Stores' club store division became the first membership warehouse club to offer Fair Trade Certified...
Online selling and green-product merchandising are among major trends ahead for this holiday season, according to Thomas Blischok, Information Resources Inc.'s president of Global Retail. Online retailing will be gangbusters, Blischok said at an...
Online selling and green-product merchandising are among major trends ahead for this holiday season, according to Thomas Blischok, Information Resources Inc.'s president for Global Retail.
The federal rules governing the use of refrigerants are in a transition period, leaving food retailers with a number of unanswered questions, according to an industry refrigerant expert. For example, it is well known that as of Jan. 1, 2010, the U...
Wegmans here is rewarding shoppers who check out with reusable bags with a coupon good for $1 off future purchases on items like Italian Classics frozen family meals, Club Pack fresh meat and a greeting card.
SN presented its 2009 Sustainability Excellence Awards to Publix Super Markets (chain category), Lakeland, Fla., and Buehler's Food Markets (independent category), Wooster, Ohio, at the Food Marketing Institute's Energy & Technical...
Death, taxes and refrigeration leaks seem to be constants in the supermarket industry. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, supermarket refrigeration systems on average lose about 23% of their initial refrigerant charge annually...