Refrigerated pasta is alive and well and living in the refrigerators of many middle- to upper-income shoppers.As a whole, the category may not recover the booming sales it experienced when it first exploded onto the market, but certain areas can...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Supermarket bakeries could raise their sales by pushing bread's nutritional qualities via the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Guide Pyramid.That's what Judi Adams, president of the Englewood, Colo.-based Wheat Foods...
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Quality Food Centers here has introduced a private-label superpremium ice cream, supporting it with substantial advertising and in-store sampling.Called Castlebury's Super Rich Premium Ice Cream, the pints-only brand was rolled...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Retailers are seeking better bottom-line performance from the deli -- but not all of them are squeezing their departments' operations to find it.Deli/food-service executives are certainly on the prowl for profit improvements...
NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- Genuardi's Family Markets here is stepping up its use of a dessicant cooling system to dehumidify stores and...
MOBILE, Ala. -- Delchamps last week clarified the status of its chairman and chief executive officer, David W. Morrow. The...
Last year at just this time the industry marked the 20th anniversary of the first nonexperimental use of in-store scanning.It...