BLUE MARTINI SOFTWARE, San Mateo, Calif., a provider of e-business applications, has adopted the LoadRunner and WinRunner programs for internal performance testing and benchmarking from Mercury Interactive, Sunnyvale, Calif. In addition, Blue...
While formats may differ from chain to chain, the common denominator is consumer education. Some retailers, including Draeger's, Whole Food Markets and Larry's Markets, offer up a complete classroom environment with full kitchens dedicated...
KULPSVILLE, Pa. -- Clemens Markets here has created a wave of excitement in its seafood departments with a grilling demo that officials hope will keep propelling sales upward.At one Clemens unit, sales zoomed up 40% on the day Evie Hansen...
SHORELINE, Wash. (FNS) -- Every which way is fish at Town & Country Markets' newly opened Central Market format here. Whether fillets, steaks, live shellfish, ready-to-cook offerings, individually quick-frozen items or whole fish, customers can...
GlobalFoodExchange.com, Atlanta, has launched a business-to-business marketplace for dairy. "The $70 billion-a-year U.S. dairy industry is highly fragmented" and stands to benefit from an Internet trading exchange, said Amy Loy, director of...
PORTLAND, Maine -- Private-label seafood, once the lonesome province of the humble and ubiquitous fish stick, now includes a sprinkling of gourmet entrees with fancy foreign names and ingenious ingredients. But that's just the start of private...
PALESTINE, Texas -- Results of a vote to organize by meat and seafood workers at a Wal-Mart Supercenter here last week were impounded pending a National Labor Relations Board decision because of an objection to the vote by Wal-Mart Stores...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The National Labor Relations Board here said it will require Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., to allow workers in the meat and seafood department in a Palestine, Texas, supercenter to hold a union vote.The NLRB also said it...
BOSTON -- Last year, e-commerce was little more than a gleam in the eyes of the seafood industry, but this year nearly a dozen Web sites devoted to the selling of seafood over the Internet were represented in some fashion at the annual...