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With consumers clucking about low-fat food, interest in chicken is game. Beef and pork have slipped in the meat department's pecking order as more and more grocery carts are laden with chicken, which now comes in more forms and varieties than ever...
Suppose you headed a very successful midsized supermarket company that for many years enjoyed the reputation -- whether apocryphal or not -- of being the most profitable chain in the land.Many in the industry might have wondered whether your...
CAMDEN, N.J. -- Campbell Soup Co. here has introduced a new 13-product lunch-oriented line to its Swanson brand that is co-branded with Campbell's Soup in an attempt to capture both frozens and center store soup sales.The new Swanson Lunch and...
Retailers are praising the fruity, sweet essences emanating from the shelves where they showcase value-priced shampoos.Major suppliers with low-price brands have added new lines featuring fruit flavors and botanicals, which they say appeal to...
Wegmans Touts Chicken Mealsans Food Markets here is touting whole meals built around its rotisserie chickens.An in-store handout showed illustrations of cooked chickens and packaged side dishes. Two different size meals were featured. One came...
McLEAN, Va. -- R. Michele Beale, senior vice president of human resources and public affairs for Coca-Cola Foods, Houston was elected chairwoman of the American Frozen Food Institute here.or employee relations, industrial relations, human...
If the soup category was a television serial, the latest cliffhanger might go something like this: Is this the end of soup concentrates? Will no-fat soup slip off its growth perch? Can soup survive the dastardly summer heat?While the questions are...
SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Supermarkets need to concentrate their marketing dollars within the store and in their immediate drawing area, according to an expert in neighborhood marketing."Foundational marketing is the biggest breakthrough in the way that...
NEW YORK -- Point-of-purchase advertising is not something to be taken lightly, particularly in view of the fact that 70% of all supermarket purchases are in some way influenced by such promotion.Throw in the statistics from a recent study that...
SAN ANTONIO -- H.E. Butt Grocery Co. here has introduced an interactive party planning kiosk at a new store to better solidify its position as a party destination.The 2-foot-wide kiosk, developed with partner American Greetings, Cleveland, takes...