C&S Wholesale Grocers announced yesterday that it will "significantly increase use of environmentally responsible initiatives" in its operations in an effort to reduce the company's carbon footprint.
Four weeks after introducing a 5-cent charge for shopping bags at its stores, Metro Inc. here said 70% fewer bags have been distributed in its stores, as compared to its previous monthly average.
While switching from fluorescent to LED or fiber optic lighting can help reduce energy costs and improve presentation in refrigerated cases, another way to accomplish this is to switch from an open case to one with doors. Angeli's Central Market...
Over the past year, Sunflower Farmers Market has used 50% less receipt paper at the checkouts of 10 stores, saving 40% in paper costs, according to Lindsay Hicks, its IT/IS director. One might think the 23-store natural-and-organic retailer's...
Lee Scott, the former chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores, called on attendees at the CIES World Food Business Summit here this month to join the Global Social Compliance Program to help ensure that suppliers are adhering to local wage and...
Refrigerated and freezer cases account for nearly half of a supermarket's annual electricity costs, according to the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. Meanwhile, the lighting used to illuminate those...
Jewel-Osco, a division of Supervalu here, has received GreenChill Gold Certification from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, recognizing the store’s eco-friendly refrigeration system, for a recently opened “green” store on...
Cub Foods, a division of Supervalu, has become the first grocer in Minnesota to be awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold NC2.2 Certification for one of its stores, located in St. Paul.
Citing sustainability concerns, Wegmans Food Markets has announced that it will no longer carry orange roughy at any of its 72 locations. Just days earlier this month, the chain became the first food retailer to endorse the Take Marlin Off the...
A new global association that will seek to bring food retailers and manufacturers from around the world together on strategic issues was officially launched here last week. Replacing CIES — The Food Business Forum, based in Paris, and Global...