Statistics show Americans like the idea of eating more seafood, but the reality is that they still feel skittish about cooking fish at home. Retailers looking to overcome that reluctance tell SN selling fresh and frozen seafood in supermarkets -...
LANDOVER, Md. -- Introductory half-price deals and in-store demonstrations are helping to sell a line of ready-to-cook fresh fish dinners, a newcomer in the seafood departments at Giant Food Stores.Fish N' Easy, the name of the line of meals...
SUNBURY, Pa. -- Continuing a strategy that plays up perishables -- and convenience -- Weis Markets recently completed the remodeling of a handful of stores in central and northern Pennsylvania. Officials enhanced and expanded the prepared foods...
When the Government Accounting Office published a report slamming the Food and Drug Administration's relatively new monitoring system designed to make seafood safer to eat, the general public sat up and noticed.It also reminded retailers to check...
Frozen Food Filibuster Slated Frozen Food Institute here is planning an inaugural event for tomorrow, serving member companies' frozen food products to members of Congress and key staffers at an evening reception. The purpose is to build...
CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. teamed up this year with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute and two other suppliers at a seafood event that attracted record crowds.Kroger, joining local area restaurants at the Great Inland Seafood Festival for the...
NCC Previews Chicken Monthonal Chicken Council predicts the 13th annual National Chicken Month promotion in September will generate sales 60% greater than in 1989, the program's inaugural year. Special sales kits with enhanced supermarket tools...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Markets celebrated June 30 as "Fish for Our Future" day to highlight its month-long, storewide promotion of sustainable, renewable seafood resources.The day's events, held throughout the chain's 125 retail operations...
The beef category may be capturing most of the headlines in the ongoing case-ready debate. But the questions haven't stopped retailers from quietly testing or adding prewrapped products to their seafood departments, SN has learned.Whatever a...