MONTVALE, N.J. -- Pepsi sales were hopping at A&P this leap year.Feb. 29, the chain ran a one-day leap year special, rewarding its shoppers with free 2-liter bottles of Pepsi.The promotion was tiered, meaning that the more shoppers spent, the more...
SALISBURY, Md. -- Eight supermarket chains are testing a meat department category management program developed by Perdue Farms here, in a bid to improve poultry category sales and meat department performance as a whole."The bedrock idea is to...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Orion Food Systems has changed the look of its supermarket food-service sections to more clearly define them as food courts with distinct food concepts.Orion specializes in food-service concepts within retail settings. The...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Fred Meyer Inc. here this year plans to intensify efforts to use food as a vehicle to lift soft nonfood sales, according to company executives.Those efforts include increasing national-brand selection, continuing private-label...
NEW YORK -- A cable TV magazine show has raised questions about the safety of hot dogs, claiming that lab analyses detected the presence of listeria in tested products."We decided to see whether contaminated hot dogs are making it past the...
HOUSTON -- Supermarkets in this area were the clear leaders in merchandising, promotion and pricing on the Feb. 28 release of Disney's "Pocahontas." About half the chains surveyed by SN in the Houston area were at the $16.95 minimum advertised...
Richfood Holdings Adds Corporate Post ldings here has named Gary Conrad corporate executive vice president of distribution and logistics, a new position.He is responsible for coordinating distribution and logistics operations in the company's four...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Procter & Gamble has no place for the wasteful and inefficient practice of couponing, Durk Jager, president and chief operating officer, said in a presentation here last week.Jager, whose company is involved in a high-profile...
Videos may replace chocolate bunnies in many Easter baskets this year.That's because more and more supermarket retailers are taking advantage of spring merchandising programs and keying into Easter as an identifiable selling period."A lot of...