With its vast assortment of fresh kosher foods, Albertsons' new store in suburban Las Vegas reminds a lot of shoppers of distant cities where keeping kosher is easy to do. The No. 1 comment I've heard is they haven't seen anything like it since...
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has published a much-anticipated definition of "gluten-free" using a threshold of 20 parts per million, an extremely low amount since studies have shown allergic reactions in humans do not occur until...
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...
