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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Supercenters here has set four locations for its latest prototype stores that will focus on expanded and redesigned fresh sections.The company is also moving to expand its meals-to-go business in supercenters and...
SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Draeger's Supermarkets here has opened its latest store with a significant expansion of fresh and culinary-related items.In the two-level, 70,000-square-foot store opened June 6, the Menlo Park-based independent retailer has...
Daniel J. McLaughlin Jr., 60niel J. McLaughlin Jr., a widely published professor of food marketing, died here May 28 at the age of 60. The cause of death was not immediately known.McLaughlin taught at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, for...
Harris Teeter President to Retirerp., parent company of Harris Teeter here, said last week Edward S. Dunn Jr., president of the supermarket chain, plans to retire in May 1998 to pursue other interests.Dunn, 54, joined Harris Teeter in 1974 as...
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Fresh 1 Marketing here is releasing its value-added peeled baby carrots and kiwifruit products in newer, larger packages, company officials said.ack clamshell containers."Consumers are looking for ways to make shopping...
FORT LEE, N.J. -- A new Food Emporium here boasts that chain's largest produce department to date, one that sports new sections and expanded variety.Among the new merchandising emphases for the chain represented in the new store here is an Asian...
CHICAGO -- This town is peppered with concept restaurants developed by Richard Melman, the moving force behind Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, the food-service company that stands astride the city with such popular establishments as Shaw's Crab...
NEW YORK -- "They call it fresh pasta, but it's got a six-month expiration [date]," lamented food writer Michele Scicolone -- the author of the cookbooks The Antipasto Table, La Dolce Vita and A Fresh Taste of Italy.She was pointing out one of the...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Wholesaler Supervalu, Minneapolis, is chasing after greater sales in produce and other fresh departments with a revamped Foodland Fresh format, the latest version of which opened here about a month ago.That newest Foodland...
CORNWALL, Ontario -- Farm Boy Fresh Market, an independent operator based here, is reaching for a piece of market share with a large, powerful produce format that owners Normand, Daniel and Jean-Louis Bellemare claim is the freshest around."First...