Like a struggling prize fighter searching for the knockout punch that will bring success and notoriety, many retail seafood departments are finding that building sales is a hit-and-miss effort. However, it doesn't have to be.Clemens Markets...
Service isn't what it used to be -- but that's a good thing, retailers tell SN.Industry competition, labor shortages and changes in consumer shopping habits have all forced supermarket operators to re-assess their service strategies. In some cases...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Price Chopper's Produce Monster is celebrating its first birthday this month, and the retailer is excited about the mascot's future. The character, the third element in the retailer's fresh-foods consumer education program, is...
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...