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A useful experiment was undertaken at last week's Meat Marketing Conference, an experiment that vividly demonstrates how a meat department can be at the forefront of supermarket retailing's battle to win back consumer dollars now being captured by...
CINCINNATI -- The Kroger Co. is poised to give case-ready fresh meat its biggest real-world trial to date in the United States, with a pilot project that could enable the chain to virtually eliminate meat-cutting at the 154 stores in its Atlanta...
DALLAS -- The founder of Boston Chicken said the quintessential home-meal replacement format could be an "absolute winner" inside a supermarket, but only if consumers could get to it easily -- and that condition is far from a given in most grocers...
RICHMOND, Va. (FNS) -- Richfood Holdings here said it plans to dust off its newest acquisition, the Norfolk, Va.-based Farm Fresh chain, and position it as a major upscale operator in its trading area.Its plans are already under way. A new logo...
RANDOLPH, Mass. -- NEDDA, the New England Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association, has changed its name to NEFFA, short for the Northeast Fresh Foods Alliance, to acknowledge the trade group's broadening geographic coverage and its members' expanding fresh...
RICHMOND, Va. (FNS) -- Richfood Holdings here said last week it would close its frozen-food distribution facility in West Point, Pa., and restructure its frozen-food operations in that state.Richood will sell the building for an undisclosed price...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Richfood Holdings here is touting its "low-cost culture" in hopes of picking up wholesaling business from self-distributed chains in the Mid-Atlantic region. , president and chief executive officer, said Richfood's largest...
McLEAN, Va. -- The American Frozen Food Institute here criticized the United Nations' World Health Organization for encouraging the consumption of fresh produce without mentioning the role of frozens.In a report issued last month, the WHO's...
ATLANTA -- Packaging materials supplier Cryovac will introduce two new poultry-packaging technologies at the International Poultry Exposition being held here Jan. 21 to 23.for customization of the packaging materials to render skin-tight packages...
NORFOLK, Va. -- Farm Fresh here and its parent company, FF Holdings Corp., said last week they have filed petitions for a reorganization plan under a voluntary prepackaged Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware -- a preliminary step to...