Check out our new daily podcast featuring editors from Supermarket News & CSP Daily News. The Retail Daily provides a quick update of the day’s top headlines from the grocery and c-store industries.
Sign up for the Supermarket News Daily newsletter.
For the past 60 years Piggly Wiggly has been a big name in the small towns of South Carolina. But The Pig, as it is affectionately known, is getting gussied up. With the opening last month of an experimental new store in an upscale development in...
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market last week announced the rollout of 250 new Fresh & Easy private-label foods, including prepared meals, juices, brewed teas, and soy and goat yogurt, as well as a range of ready-to-grill meats. One new item that is...
Retailers can add lots of value just by telling their customers what cuts of meat grill best and offering tips to help them improve their grilling skills, sources told SN. It's just imperative that meat department employees convey to customers the...
Big, stuffed burgers, sliders and ribs spell value in their own way, and so do premium, restaurant-style steaks. It all depends on who the customer is, retailers said, but as meat prices continue upward, value takes on new importance this grilling...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a final regulation barring certain cattle materials from all animal feed, including pet food. The final rule is intended to further protect animals and consumers against bovine spongiform...
The figures cited during last month's U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission meeting and webcast in Washington were jaw-dropping, even for those viewers who were already familiar with how quickly the costs of agricultural staples have risen...
Following a public meeting that focused on E. coli, recalls, inspections and related topics, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking additional comments from the meat industry and the public on a range of issues, including concerns that many...
Grass-fed and naturally raised are among the many claims seen on products in the supermarket meat case today. But these labels are currently backed by a variety of different standards, despite shoppers' preconceptions of what these terms mean. In...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission hosted an agricultural forum here last week in an effort to gather opinions from farmers, commodity traders and government officials as to what factors may be contributing to current volatility in the...
Consumers have been told that seafood is good for them, and that they should eat more of it. A&P, Montvale, N.J., has plans to help them with the introduction of Seafood Joe's Market Fresh Fish. The emphasis is on freshness and flavor, with a...