For just about every business challenge retailers face, there is a technology solution. For example, Price Chopper Supermarkets, Schenectady, N.Y., has found that e-procurement services that conduct reverse auctions are able to drive down the cost...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency next week plans to announce long-awaited proposed amendments to the refrigerant leak-repair regulations in Section 608 of the Clean Air Act.
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Global Packaging Project, an effort to establish a common industry language for packaging and sustainability, expects to issue a guidance document in the first quarter of next year, said Anne T. Johnson, program director...
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives folded food-safety legislation into a budget bill Wednesday and passed it by a 212-206 margin.
ARLINGTON, Va. — The new Food Marketing Institute document, “Sustainability on the Shelves: A Guide for Category Managers & Buyers,” includes a “cheat sheet” intended to help jumpstart a dialogue between the...
FMI/GMA Sustainability Summit
ARLINGTON, Va. – Despite the economy, consumers are still willing to buy products that are
marketed as environmentally friendly, but only if the price is right.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Ahold USA is looking at the food-buying patterns of shoppers using WIC and SNAP government benefits at a three-year-old Giant Food store opened in an underserved “food desert” community in Washington, D.C., said...