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To the editor:uraging to note in your Dec. 11 issue [Page 5] that the "Health Scare Industry" is alive and well and still out to scare American consumers away from a healthy diet of fresh fruits and vegetables. The ad placed by Food & Water Inc...
The year just ending provided plenty of excitement for supermarkets. Retailers survived a year of hefty mergers and growing threats from supercenters. Operators began to fathom the potential of interactive technologies and continued to marvel at...
PLANTATION, Fla. -- Bread of Life Natural Food Market opened its second unit here last month, with a new focus on its namesake.The specialty retailer, labeled a natural foods supermarket operator by its owners, Richie Gerber and Jim Oppenheimer...
DALLAS -- Kimberly-Clark here, unveiling its plans to integrate the newly acquired Scott Paper Co., said it will divest the Scotties facial-tissue business as well as the Baby Fresh, Wash-a-Bye Baby and Kid Fresh brands of wipes.d Essington, Pa.
BOSTON -- Frozen food gets more than its fair share of attention at a new Star Market in this city's Allston section.The Cambridge, Mass.-based chain has about 120 freezer doors in the department, which spans a full aisle and winds partially down...
SWEETWATER, Texas -- Lawrence Bros. Management Services raised prices on its private-label health and beauty care items to better align store-brand pricing with the national brands.The retailer believes the price hike will enhance the value of...
MONTREAL -- Metro-Richelieu here said sales and earnings increased for the fifth consecutive year. In the year ended Sept. 30, net income rose 64.4% to $45.3 million and sales increased 8.1% to $2.3 billion. This year was one week longer than 1994...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- MGM/UA Home Entertainment here has established a new $9.99 line of movies to target supermarket customers. The new Movie Time line will start off with 10 titles on its Feb. 13 street date. It will include titles like "The...
WALDEN, Vt. -- Produce industry associations reacted with alarm to the latest shot fired in an anti-pesticide campaign by the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Inc., based here.nd vegetables" to thousands of deaths.Similar versions of the ad...
DENVER -- Retail meat departments may see even lower beef prices and sharper competition in 1996, perpetuating a condition that persisted throughout last year, according to the National Cattlemen's Association, Englewood, Colo.The association...