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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- If the produce industry is calling the just-concluded period of retailer consolidation an earthquake, then everyone is still feeling aftershocks -- that is, the intensity may have diminished, but the landscape continues to...
Retailers and grower/shippers aren't the only ones affected by the forces of change. PMA will unveil its new strategic plan during Fresh Summit 2000. According to Bryan Silbermann, PMA president, this "master plan" will include two updated...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Even Brutus would have feared this Caesar.Raley's supermarket here, along with Fresh Express, Salinas, Calif., recently tried for the record books by creating a 3,000-pound fresh Caesar salad, complete with croutons the size...
For many years, shelves in Center Store have been stocked with store brands of non-perishable items ranging from canned vegetables to toilet tissue. But private label's "New Frontier" increasingly lies around the store's perimeter -- in fresh...
Supermarket operators are increasingly using the total store to sell meal solutions, pulling existing products from various departments and presenting them in new ways that grab the attention of busy customers.These retailers are enlisting the...
Of all the components that make up a retailer's food-safety program, training can be the most costly and time-consuming. The challenge of implementing a consistent, reliable blueprint is exacerbated by store-level, hourly-wage earners -- who are...
FINDLAY, Ohio -- Fresh Encounter here this month rolled out the BeeLine Shopper home-scanning program to seven of its Fulmer Supermarkets in the Dayton-Springfield, Ohio, area.The program enables customers to scan empty product containers and...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- World Commerce Online here, a global business-to-business, e-commerce Web site for fresh foods, has announced the acquisition of ProduceOnline.com, an e-commerce provider for buyers and sellers of fresh produce. ProduceOnline.com...
DALLAS (FNS) -- Fresh produce and most service departments are being repositioned at Carnival Food Stores in an effort to keep up with the quickly changing demographics of the heavily ethnic Dallas-Fort Worth market.Carnival, the ethnic banner...
ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- Costco Corp. here said last week that it has abandoned plans for two of its three proposed units in Manhattan in New York City, both of which would have premiered its new, urban-focused Costco Fresh format.Meanwhile, the start...