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The Distinction of Hybrid isn't just for cars anymore. Take Marvelous Market, for example. This specialty grocer in the Washington, D.C., metro area is successfully blending better, healthier and faster food, and packaging it all in a gourmet...
PCC NATURAL MARKETS TO DISCONTINUE PLASTIC BAGS Saying it's simply the right thing to do, PCC Natural Markets will discontinue using plastic bags Oct. 1. While this decision to eliminate plastic shopping bags will entail some additional cost, it's...
The secret formula to robust retail sales last year was pairing health and wellness with convenience. That is a winning combination, said Sheila McCusker, editor of Times & Trends for Information Resources Inc., Chicago. While supermarkets...
It has been a turbulent year for fresh foods. A massive spike in the price of animal feed has inflated input costs for egg, dairy and meat producers, and a worldwide drought has pressured wheat yields and boosted U.S. exports of the crop. A poor...
Penny Curtiss Baking Co. is laying off 26 seasonal and 28 full-time employees between Aug. 24 and Sept. 8 as it winds down its contract to supply fresh bakery goods to Aldi grocery stores, the company said in a statement yesterday.
Roanoke's newest supermarket is one of Richmond's oldest. Ukrop's Super Markets, a Richmond, Va., fixture for 70 years, moved 200 miles west at the end of June to open its first store in Roanoke, which has become, right off the bat, one of the...
27 PETER BRABECK-LETMATHE Chairman and CEO, Nestl S.A. KEY DEVELOPMENTS: Moved into the No. 2 health care nutrition market spot. WHAT'S NEXT: Become the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company. It seems there is something in the...
Fried chicken wings displayed on end in a vase of rice, wedges of cheese rising vertically into the air, cookies on sticks and cupcakes stacked in pretty cups. Such twists in visual landscaping characterized this year's Show & Sell Center at the...
Penny Curtiss Baking Co. has informed its employees that it will phase out the contract baking business it does for retailer Aldi next month. Penny Curtiss is owned by retailer Penn Traffic.
Cigarettes, booze and lottery tickets are far more abundant than healthy, fresh food at most of the stores that sell groceries in metropolitan Detroit, according to a new study which describes the area as a food desert that threatens public health...
