Jeff BezosJeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, is accustomed to breaking new ground. And now he is attempting to do that in the online grocery business.
Bezos, 49, who started Ama...
Despite the challenging economy, Acosta Sales & Marketing, Jacksonville, Fla., has grown its food brokerage business over the past few years by offering new services ranging from shopper insights to foodservice to...
Mark Bittman
For many years, consumers’ growing interest in natural and organic foods — and in healthier foods in general — has brought about changes in the kinds of products sold on supermarket shelves.
The ch...
Sam DuncanOf all the chief executive jobs in the food distribution business, perhaps the toughest right now is held by Sam Duncan, who in February began leading the reconstruction of Supervalu as it parted ways wi...
Laura Shapira Karet
Since Laura Shapira Karet became president and chief executive officer of Giant Eagle in January 2012, succeeding her father, David Shapira, two themes have stood out: low prices and more format...
WASHINGTON — Retailers looking at or adopting transcritical refrigeration systems, which use only carbon dioxide (CO2) as a refrigerant, are confident that technicians and contractors will be able to handle the in...
GARDENDALE, Ala. — The Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates (ROFDA) here, a cooperative of independent food wholesalers, endorsed the use of a web-based product recall system from Recall InfoLink, Boise...
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway announced to its shoppers in a Facebook post last night that its O Organics products, which are certified USDA Organic, do not contain GMOs (genetically modified organisms), adding tha...
LUFKIN, Texas — Big data has generally been regarded in retail circles as referring to the voluminous streams of consumer information generated in stores and online, but it can also be viewed from a store operatio...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Homeland Stores here, which operates 78 stores, has launched a new iPhone and Android mobile application that allows customers to use their smartphones to pay for groceries – one of the few grocery...
