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LUBBOCK, Texas United Supermarkets featured cakes recently at a chainwide, well-publicized Cake Walk/Cake-A-Rama. The double-layer cakes, decorated by associates in the chain's in-store bakeries, were made to look like critters, from cats and dogs...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Executives from Hy-Vee, Sobeys and Dorothy Lane Market outlined new routes to boosting at-home meal consumption during a panel discussion here.
Kowalski's Markets here is seizing Super Bowl Sunday as an opportunity to score points for its signature deli products. In its January newsletter, the nine-unit independent emphasizes that it's not too early to be thinking about Super Bowl Sunday...
Riesbeck's Markets is putting high hopes on paczki this year, having outdone itself last year with record sales. With sales that soared 11% over projections, the independent sold just under half a million of the super-rich pastries that are...
That people need to eat is a constant, but how they eat is always evolving. Forces are at work, both invisible and in plain sight, that stand to change how consumers approach food. Of course, the economy has altered the food landscape in recent...
BOSTON The Whole Grains Council brought an award-winning chef to the North Bergen, N.J., home of its grand prize contest winner this month to cook a week's worth of healthy meals. The idea was to show winner Cynthia Beaumont's family how to...
During the recession, a number of retailers ramped up their prepared-food and convenience offerings as a way of appealing to consumers who have lost their enthusiasm for restaurants, according to the Food Marketing Institute's U.S. Grocery Shopper...
Retailers have been responding to new consumer emphasis on convenience and value in prepared foods by offering grab-and-go versions of their most popular dishes and sides. Doing so is no easy feat, as retailers who offer these convenient solutions...
Albertsons and its parent company, Minneapolis-based Supervalu, were able to drive hundreds of millions in savings using the Six Sigma quality control systems, Jim Gentile, former senior vice president of Six Sigma Quality at Supervalu, said in a...