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PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway's plan to implement an e-commerce sourcing network for fresh foods has taken a significant step forward with the appointment of a corporate produce executive to spearhead the effort.Ed Wright was named vice president...
MILFORD, Conn. -- Subway Restaurants has announced new sourcing protocols for fresh vegetable ingredients, mandating compliance for the chain's restaurants in the United States and Canada, and suppliers, by February 2001.Under the Gold Standard...
HOUSTON -- The boundaries defining the food universe are becoming more blurred every day. Food service is growing faster than the retail food segment, and convenience stores are encroaching on retailer profits with new formats and expanded fresh...
The Houston Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association's 14th annual "Gift of Produce" topped one million pounds this year, all donated to the Houston Food Bank during a downtown ceremony at Enron Field. A number of retailers and grower/shippers...
SEATTLE (FNS) -- Launching her "Organic Kitchen" cookbook tour at the Dahlia Lounge restaurant here, nationally recognized chef Jesse Cool recently hosted a sampling of recipes taken from the book. oking with fresh ingredients is preferable, it is...
HAMPTON, Va. -- The new Farm Fresh 58,000-square-foot prototype store here, which opened in July, features a front end that can be completely open on nice days, thanks to a set of "garage doors," and displays a realm of Center Store products on...
Long established in the Center Store, private labels are starting to have a presence in supermarket fresh foods departments.In recent years, many retailers have introduced their own branded items into the produce, deli, bakery and meat sections...
Retailers are discovering a new crop of state-sponsored promotional campaigns touting homegrown fresh foods, particularly produce, that help retailers connect locally.
Retailers are reaping the rewards from a new crop of state-sponsored cooperative promotions that highlight fresh foods -- particularly produce, supermarket executives and government officials told SN.Just this summer alone, Maine introduced a...
BALTIMORE -- Sixty-eight percent of respondents to "Consumer Trends 2000," the annual study by the Food Marketing Institute, said they buy natural and organic items in their primary supermarket, while 19% buy them in a specialty market, which...