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ORLANDO -- The new emphasis on consumers is compelling retailers to seek out produce suppliers with a strong sense of the customer, and extensive market knowledge, according to retailer-panelists at the United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association's...
Mention food safety and retailers recite a long list of programs, training and technical procedures they use to protect the food they sell. The roster includes a large number of policies geared specifically toward store-level associates in fresh...
SAN ANTONIO -- H-E-B Grocery Co. has appointed Michael Eardley to fill the vacant post of deli business development manager. Previously, Eardley -- who is also president of the Madison, Wis.-based International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association -- was...
7-Eleven, Dallas, will step up its efforts to sell fresh foods, said Jim Keyes, the company's president and chief executive officer, who sees the fresh segment as a big growth opportunity for the c-store operator.The company's use of a proprietary...
There was a time when the produce business was a fairly straightforward endeavor: Grow it, buy it and sell it. In its simplest form, the idea was to take the entire crop, no matter how large, and to keep sending it down the pipeline until all of...
A few short years ago, warehouse clubs created an exciting new destination for their members -- meat and seafood departments. Designed to increase the frequency of shopping visits, these additions have done that and more. Now they take a small -...
If there's a single theme that tied all the fresh departments together during 2001, it was that the people working in them continually sought new ways to reinvent the categories to keep them up to date, competitive and, most importantly...
PATERSON, N.J. -- For the pre-Christmas season this year, A&P's Atlantic Division here brought a new meaning to the term one-stop shopping by arranging for Santa Claus to appear in stores to hear the wishes of children."Our position is to make...
FINDLAY, Ohio -- Mark Gephart has risen through the ranks at Fresh Encounter here by being hard-nosed about business fundamentals and by closely monitoring line items on the budget sheet that impacts the bottom line.As chief operating officer, a...
LANDOVER, Md. -- Introductory half-price deals and in-store demonstrations are helping to sell a line of ready-to-cook fresh fish dinners, a newcomer in the seafood departments at Giant Food Stores.Fish N' Easy, the name of the line of meals...