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Ahold's Value Improvement Program at Stop & Shop and Giant-Landover is very much on track, with reduced pricing and assortments on about 25% of store categories through the end of the second quarter, Larry Benjamin, chief operating officer for the...
Beer is the best cure for a wine law hanging over Whole Foods. It began offering six local brews on tap and 200 types of bottled beer for off-premises consumption last month in its Beer Room, part of Whole Food's Bowery store in Manhattan. Beer...
Whole Foods Market's Northwest group recently set out to search for potential vendors, hosting a grower and supplier seminar that detailed how the chain is working with small local vendors. The chain is actively searching for Pacific Northwest...
This year, there have been major spikes in the price of animal feed due to the corn-based ethanol boom; fuel and electricity costs have remained stubbornly high; and droughts and extreme heat have ravaged farmland throughout the country. It would...
This year got off to a shaky start for the pet food industry with the recall of 5,300 items and a consequent drop in dog and cat food sales. Now the industry is bouncing back and resurfacing with a different focus. Consumers who saw their favorite...
The inflation that's been impacting supermarkets through the summer may be just a blip on the radar screen, or it may have legs long enough to keep margins under pressure, a panel of industry analysts said during SN's 12th annual Financial...
INTEGRATION PRICE CHOPPER, WEGMANS AND BASHAS' are among the retailers that have started taking steps to integrate health and wellness into their conventional aisle layouts. The activity marks a key turning point in the way such items are...
The Distinction of Hybrid isn't just for cars anymore. Take Marvelous Market, for example. This specialty grocer in the Washington, D.C., metro area is successfully blending better, healthier and faster food, and packaging it all in a gourmet...
Safeway, the nation's fourth-largest food retailer behind Wal-Mart Stores, Kroger and Costco Wholesale, is also in the top tier when it comes to health and wellness initiatives. The chain is midway through converting all of its stores to its...
The club channel has been a favorite of the natural and organic set for some time as an alternative to mainstream supermarkets. Though club stores carry fewer SKUs, the top brands are often there. Issaquah, Wash.-based Costco goes a step further...