Safeway's decision to close 14 stores in the Chicago area this year was the biggest development to shake up the market. In making the announcement, Safeway also said it would convert 20 existing stores to the company's popular format. Safeway...

Giant Eagle opened the first of a new format, Giant Eagle Express, late last week.

NASH FINCH NAMES BEFORT SR. VP, MERCHANDISING MINNEAPOLIS Nash Finch Co. has named Howard Befort senior vice president of merchandising. He brings more then 30 years of industry experience in marketing, merchandising and supply chain management...

SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion has named Kyle Price vice president of category management, Deli/Bakery, while Tammy DeBoer, whom Price replaces, has been named vice president of operations for the company's Northern Division.

During the past two years, artery-clogging trans fats have quickly earned a reputation as a dietary bugaboo, inspiring food manufacturers, restaurants and bakeries to reformulate recipes and change their frying oils. In some cases, with some foods...

BETHEL, Conn. -- Big Y has announced it will open an exclusively full-service fresh meat department in its newest location here this week.

The International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association has named three finalists who will compete on-site in IDDBA's 12th Annual Cake Decorating Challenge at its Dairy-Deli-Bake Seminar and Expo '07 in Anaheim, Calif., June 3-5. The finalists are Sunnie...

A broad coalition of leading fresh food associations has released a white paper advocating the adoption of Global Trade Identification Numbers to cover both fixed and random weight perishables throughout their respective supply chains. While...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market stores that opened yesterday in Naples, Fla., and Plano, Texas, offer a stylish new design to target women shoppers, the retailer here said.