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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Eight supermarket companies have won expense-paid trips to the Annual Produce Conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., this June as first-place prizes in the 1993 California Summer Fruits Contest.to best ripen tree fruit.More...
NORFOLK, Va. -- Farm Fresh here is rolling out an anti-shoplifting system chainwide following a four-month test in three stores.The program is credited with helping cut health and beauty care shrink in half in the pilot stores and will now be...
NORTHLAKE, Ill. -- Dominick's Finer Foods used full-page ads in Chicago's Sunday newspapers last month in a bid to boost consumer confidence about buying seafood.The ads featured a color drawing of a rainbow trout under the headline "How to select...
AUSTIN, Texas -- A walk through H-E-B Grocery Co.'s new Central Market fresh foods concept here leads through a forced traffic pattern that evokes the mazelike, show-and-sell approach of a Harry's Farmers Market in Atlanta or a Stew Leonard's in...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy said last week he wants the federal definition governing the use of the term "fresh" on poultry labels reexamined.The Department of Agriculture currently allows poultry to be labeled "fresh"...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The health care issue is expected to be a prominent topic addressed at the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association's Fresh World '94 Convention next week., which will include 19 workshops, four general sessions and 660...
Farm Fresh Appoints Senior Executive VPnamed Ronald E. Johnson senior executive vice president, a new position.Johnson, who has more than 20 years of industry experience, was senior vice president overseeing Farm Fresh's 60 combination stores. He...
Publix Retailer Wins Sweepstakesningham, produce operations director of Publix Super Markets, Lakeland, Fla., was the winner of Sun World International's 3rd annual Super Bowl Sweepstakes.The prize package included four tickets to the Super Bowl...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- With a new executive in charge, the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association here is working to better define its place in the produce industry.That place appears to be one that focuses on the supply side of the business and...
ATLANTA -- A morning request for 40 pounds of large shrimp, cooked, peeled and cleaned by 4 p.m.? Done.A special order for an exotic flower arrangement that includes banana leaves by tomorrow? No problem.Home delivery of a food order by this...