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Mike Johanns, who as Secretary of Agriculture helped reopen international markets for U.S. beef, resigned from his post yesterday to pursue “a new opportunity to serve this great nation,” which is expected to be a U.S. Senate seat...
Union members dressed as Minutemen and Minutewomen appeared at an industry conference to denounce the impending “British invasion” of Tesco and to announce a campaign to educate consumers, lawmakers and opinion leaders about the...
A division of Dole Food Co. issued an international voluntary recall of Dole’s Hearts Delight salad mix after a sample taken from a store in Canada tested positive for E. coli, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned consumers not to...
Retail prices of meat, eggs and poultry will continue to rise at a rate exceeding general inflation through at least 2010 as producers grapple with escalating animal feed costs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service noted...
Hannaford Bros. shoppers are reaching for the stars. Items earning the symbols as part of the retailer's Guiding Stars nutrition rating system are shooting off shelves up to four times faster than their star-free counterparts, when their movement...
Minyard Food Stores is stocking thousands of new imported groceries in a vast international food department being tested in one store here. The department spans 240 linear feet in the front of a 70,000-square-foot Carnival-banner store, adjacent...
Halloween is the sweetest season of the year for candy marketers. But it's getting scarier for conventional food retailers as they battle drug stores and supercenters for a bigger bag of treats. Although supermarkets do most of the business for...
Wegmans will begin restocking its Menu Foods-manufactured store-brand wet pet food this month for the first time since the product was recalled last March.
A $4 million donation made by the Wal-Mart Foundation here will benefit America’s Second Harvest’s BackPack Program and other initiatives to help feed hungry Americans.