As is always the case, year's end is upon us before we quite got used to the idea that the year was fully under way.And, as is always the case, the year now ending has had its share of notable and surprising industry events and trends. Those...
While other segments of the frozen seafood category are drowning all around it, the frozen shrimp segment is managing to swim along at a nice pace.The most recent scanning sales records available show increased sales of frozen breaded shrimp at...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Food labeling regulations for California retailers have become even knottier.That is thanks to a federal appeals court ruling earlier this month that says stores in the state must follow federal definitions when labeling...
In the face of aggressive efforts by third-party plans to reduce reimbursements for generic drugs, supermarket pharmacy directors are struggling to maintain some profitability.The profits that generic drugs once afforded supermarket pharmacies...
MONTVALE, N.J. -- In an effort to turn its Canadian operations around following "substantial losses," A&P is now enacting a previously announced store conversion plan for Ontario.The company plans to convert an initial group of 25 stores in...
Phone-a-Thon Has Big Ringroduce for Better Health Foundation's board of directors raised more than $100,000 during a phone-a-thon. The phone-a-thon last month capped a two-week fund-raising effort that began during the Produce Marketing...
HOUSTON -- Randalls Food Markets here has replaced the fresh poultry line of an out-of-state supplier with the product of a Texas-based company.Walt Frewin, meat director at Randalls, said the fact that its new supplier is from Texas is one of the...
Natural food stores -- those purveyors of everything from organic produce to natural cereals to preservative-free dry groceries -- may present more opportunity than direct competitive challenge to conventional supermarkets.At least that's the...
Conventional operators who think natural food supermarkets won't make serious inroads into their business may be doing nothing more than whistling past the graveyard.n get fine clothing in a lot of department stores, but that hasn't put specialty...
Battaglia Leaves Fleming Cos.taglia, who was recently named director of produce merchandising for Fleming Cos. here, has left the company.Battaglia was vice president of produce merchandising at Scrivner, also based here, at the time Fleming...