At a joint public meeting yesterday focused on improving the system for tracing food products and ingredients that are causing illness outbreaks, Robert Carpenter, president and chief executive officer, GS1 US, Lawrenceville, N.J., urged that...
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores commended U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) for introduction of an amendment to the Senate healthcare bill that would improve medication therapy management programs in Medicare Part D, enabling...
As supermarket workers here finish voting on the last, best and final offer from the chains in their long-running union contract negotiations, one of the key issues will be the funding of the pension plan that covers retirees. A bargaining cycle...
The Grocery Manufacturers Association welcomed the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision yesterday to delay a final decision on pro-ethanol lobby Growth Energy’s waiver petition to allow ethanol blends up to E15.
Quenching one's thirst is becoming more expensive in New York, where elements of an updated bottle bill took effect earlier this month. A refundable 5-cent deposit was added to bottles of water less than one gallon and sold in the state. Plain...
Rouses Supermarkets joined the protest when the Food and Drug Administration proposed to ban the sale of raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico during the summer months unless they were treated with anti-bacterial technology. Oystermen said the...
The recent report by the General Accounting Office on the impact of payment-card interchange fees could hinder the retail industry's effort to curb such fees, some observers said. The fees, which are assessed by banks on every transaction...
