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MADISON, Wis. -- In evaluating their dairy, deli and bakery departments, retailers are underestimating the importance of price in the mind of the consumer -- and overestimating the importance of brands, according to the latest research sponsored...
AUSTIN, Texas -- For the first time, Whole Foods stores from coast to coast are highlighting the products made by New England cheesemakers.Spearheaded by the New England Dairy Promotion Board, the event is anchored by five regional cheese...
A new generation of single-serve, resealable beverages is coming to market this spring to quench consumers' thirst for easy, on-the-go food products. They're selling well in food service, convenience stores and on-site food venues.But many...
NEW YORK -- Supermarkets in and around the city, even though they court lunchtime customers, are not making single-serve dairy drinks easy to buy.r, N.Y., had positioned a couple of items -- Silk soy milk and Stonyfield Farms drinkable yogurt -...
In its 19th year, "March is Frozen Food Month" is as strong as ever, with Web pages playing an increasingly sophisticated role in spiking frozen food sales. A $10,000 national sweepstakes and local giveaways of items like home freezers also aim to...
ANGIER, N.C. -- Fiesta International IGA has put all its eggs in one basket -- a big basket. Eggs packaged in suitcase-size cartons, gallons and gallons of whole milk, drinkable yogurt, horchata, queso fresco and rompope are the big draw in a new...
EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Shaw's Supermarkets here is getting serious about Laughing Cow cheese after a new merchandising tack sent sales flying way above projections.In a chainwide effort to grow sales in the dairy aisle, the 189-unit retailer...
Ukrop's Debuts Joe's Markets Super Market opened a new store concept, Joe's Market, here last week. The small-format store, named after Ukrop's founder, Joseph Ukrop, features gourmet and natural foods, houses an in-store pharmacy that offers...
Dairy's newest cash cow is enhanced cheese, and consumers across the country who are eating it up simply refer to it as cheese with good stuff inside. But no matter what you call it, these cheeses infused with fruit, vegetables, condiments and...
No longer a trickle in natural and organic food stores, sales of soy milk have flooded the dairy aisles of mainstream retailers, buoyed by new merchandising strategies and a government seal of approval regarding the legume's health benefits.As a...