Roseanne Harper

Fresh Market Reporter, Supermarket News

Roseanne Harper has spent most of her life somewhere in the food industry. Since 1992, she has been a reporter with Supermarket News, the nation’s top news weekly covering the retail food formats. Her beat is perishables, her home in print, SN's Fresh Market section.

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Roseanne’s Recent activity

3 Ways to Add Value to Healthy Meals

Feb 19, 2013

Supermarket retailers are revving up merchandising — and sales — of particularly healthful items in their prepared food departments, they say. Here are three ways retailers are making healthy more appealing to sho...

What Retailers Looked For

Jun 08, 2010

Retailers I talked to at the IDDBA Dairy-Deli-Bake 2010 Seminar & Expo said they’d come this year to get merchandising ideas, and, of course, to see what’s new, and they said they hadn't been disappointed. That...

More Convenient Packaging

Jun 08, 2010

With consumers and retailers also still pressed for time, it looks like packaging manufacturers are coming to the rescue. At least that’s what I observed on the show floor at IDDBA’s Dairy-Deli-Bake 2010. Retailers...

Christison on Trends, What's New

Jun 07, 2010

The general assembly ballroom at IDDBA's Dairy-Deli-Bake 2010 Seminar and Expo was jam-packed this morning, as attendees gathered to hear IDDBA Executive Director Carol Christison's annual talk on fads, trends and...

The Researcher & The Conversationalist

Jun 07, 2010

Dr. Rosita Thomas, Thomas Opinion Research, first on the roster of speakers on opening day of IDDBA's Dairy-Deli-Bake 2010, got the day off to to a positive start with some stats that show the recession might be...

Touring Houston's Rice Epicurean Market

Jun 03, 2010

Since we'll be in Houston this weekend at IDDBA's Dairy-Deli-Bake 2010, billed as the show of shows, it seems like a good time to visit what some locals call Houston's grocery store of grocery stores. That would be...

Innovation Needed

Jun 09, 2009

Speakers this morning at IDDBA’s seminar/expo all talked about innovating to stay ahead of the pack, and later I saw a display that stood out as a good example of what they meant, I think. ...

Batman to the Rescue

Jun 08, 2009

Every year, Harold Lloyd, former retailer, restaurateur, and now consultant, has opened his presentations at IDDBA’s annual Dairy-Deli-Bake seminar/expos with something zany. ...

Getting Ready to Go

Jun 04, 2009

Which shoes? That’s my big concern this morning. Not the economy, not my camera battery, but which shoes will be best for trodding the show floor...