The Produce for Better Health Foundation's 5-a-Day program is filtering into the frozen departments at a small number of supermarket chains.In one early example, static cling signs produced for Pictsweet Frozen Foods, Bells, Tenn., are being used...
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Interactive multimedia products on 5-inch compact discs will not fulfill their mass market potential until platform formats become more standardized.There was almost unanimous agreement on that point at the Hollywood 2000...
NORTHLAKE, Ill. -- Next month Dominick's Finer Foods here will begin testing an in-store recipe card program that encourages the purchase of specific grocery products and evaluates consumer response by using scanning data.The recipe distribution...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The North American Free Trade Agreement took effect on Jan. 1, but the primary gains for U.S. food retailers, wholesalers and processors will come over the long haul, not immediately, according to industry analysts."The most...
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- The proposed in-home delivery of movies through video-on-demand systems will have little effect on the burgeoning sell-through business.While on-demand systems will eventually hurt the rental business, especially top hits...
Healthy, fresh and good value will be the key words in 1994, supermarket bakery executives told SN.Emphasizing whole grain, fresh baked breads and creating variety with different touches to basic products are some of the ways retailers expect to...
Product change and diversity are driving the growth of the fitness video category. Consequently, retailers can expect a healthy "bump" in exercise tape sales this month, the traditionally strong selling period, but also throughout the year...
There's something about the start of a new year that seems to require a look into the future. Maybe it's written into the Constitution.So let's simultaneously acknowledge the impossibility of divining the future while bending to the tradition of...
WESTBURY, N.Y. - Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., has halted the development of a Sam's Club and Wal-Mart store here on Long Island.Company spokesman Trey Baker said construction costs for the combination site were "just too high, so we...