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Smaller portions of everything, including dessert, are a big deal for the food industry right now. The trend is playing out in the grocery aisle where sales of small, 100-calorie packs of all kinds of sweet and salty snacks are exceeding...
SAN FRANCISCO Bristol Farms, the upscale chain that Supervalu, Minneapolis, acquired when it bought most of Albertsons last year, recently opened its first store in this city, a location in the lower level of the Westfield San Francisco Centre...
For the independent grocery sector, it is usually the best of times or the worst of times. Using that Dickensian analogy, Burt Flickinger, managing director of Strategic Resource Group, New York, said he believes it is now the best of times for...
PROVIDENCE, Utah -- Macey's was scheduled to open a new, 83,000-square-foot flagship store here today with revamped displays of produce, scratch-baked goods, fresh seafood, meat, deli products and cheeses.
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration yesterday finalized a rule that will let smaller handheld foods -- until now prohibited from using the word "lean" on their labels -- begin adding the term.
PEMBROKE, N.H. William Carter has joined Associated Grocers of New England here as bakery/deli purchasing manager. Carter reports to Richard Wheeler, vice president of wholesale merchandising and procurement. Previously, Carter worked for the Rich...
NEW YORK Bronx-based Morton Williams Associated received a nice holiday present in the form of impressive sales at the retailer's first suburban store. Until now, the independent has had all its stores in New York City, most of them in midtown...
Kings Super Markets has struck up a partnership with a kosher bakery to supply all its in-store bakeries with an increasing variety of kosher baked goods.
The approach of Thanksgiving kicks off prime time for sales in retail bakeries. To build traffic during the holiday season, retailers feature prominent signature products, dramatic displays, tastings that introduce customers to lesser-known ethnic...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. For the first time, two supermarket cake decorators participated in the Retail Bakers of America decorating competition here and one of them walked off with top honors. Sunnie Guraedy, decorator and bakery manager at Miracle...