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AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market here has teamed with its vendors to offer customers a coupon book that features savings on dozens of natural and organic items, including several Center Store products.The 1998 Whole Foods Healthy Savings Book...
Like a young man in a suit picking up your daughter on a first date, first impressions also count when it comes to supermarket fresh meals: The subject better look clean, fresh and well-dressed, or it's no sale. More than anything else, packaging...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Retailers and the fresh-juice industry opposed to health-risk warning labels on unpasteurized juice -- soon to be required by the Food and Drug Administration -- say they will continue to push federal regulators for...
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A&P believes its new store-development program is a major key to improving sales and profit performance over the next few years, Christian Haub, president and chief executive officer, told shareholders last week at the...
NORTHLAKE, Ill. (FNS) -- Produce plays center stage in the conversions of Dominick's Finer Foods Omni units, for the most part to Dominick's Fresh Store units, throughout the Chicago area.All in all, 15 formerly-tagged Omni stores have been...
RICHMOND, Va. -- A pair of supermarket chain acquisitions this year has helped regional wholesaler Richfood Holdings here emerge as a formidable retailer as well. Those acquisitions -- of 45-store Farm Fresh and 37-store Shopper's Food Warehouse ...
BOSTON -- The new federal regulation that sets a 26 degrees Fahrenheit or higher standard for poultry labeled "fresh" had panelists talking turkey at the recent Northeast Fresh Foods Alliance conference.Although poultry with internal temperatures...
MONTVALE, N.J. -- A&P here is peddling into summer, selling bicycles in its Philadelphia-area stores. The chain also is testing interactive computer software kiosks at 102 stores in five divisions.The 4-foot kiosks, supplied by Major Connections...
Supermarkets for years have been committed to community relations but now requests from those communities are accelerating. From Food Banks to Boy Scouts, organizations increasingly are seeking help.The pickup in activity is spurred partly by the...
FLORENCE, N.J. -- Sponsoring a local school-level math competition can add up to increased movement of Center Store products, Super Fresh Food Markets here has found.Super Fresh sponsored the 24 Challenge Math Program, a math game, as part of its...