Hannaford Bros. has released the first-year results of its Guiding Stars program, which rates the nutritional content of more than 25,000 food products using a scale of zero to three stars, with three indicating the most nutritious items.
A coalition of community organizations is seeking assurances from Tesco that it will go into underserved market areas, champion the environment and create good jobs — commitments the retailer has already made in previous public statements.
Safeway is prepared to open smaller-format stores if Tesco’s Fresh & Easy concept proves to be a winner with consumers, Steve Burd, chairman, president and chief executive officer, said yesterday at the Lehman Brothers Back-to-School...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture imposed significant corrective measures on the nation's largest supplier of private-label organic dairy products, after investigators uncovered deficiencies in several critical areas, including access to pasture...
Beer is the best cure for a wine law hanging over Whole Foods. It began offering six local brews on tap and 200 types of bottled beer for off-premises consumption last month in its Beer Room, part of Whole Food's Bowery store in Manhattan. Beer...
Whole Foods Market's Northwest group recently set out to search for potential vendors, hosting a grower and supplier seminar that detailed how the chain is working with small local vendors. The chain is actively searching for Pacific Northwest...
This year, there have been major spikes in the price of animal feed due to the corn-based ethanol boom; fuel and electricity costs have remained stubbornly high; and droughts and extreme heat have ravaged farmland throughout the country. It would...