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Bridgeport, Conn., will serve as home to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Co.’s (A&P) first Food Basics store in the Nutmeg State, which is slated to make its debut Nov. 13 at the site of a former A&P Store at 1700 Park Ave.
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Walmart, Kroger, Target, Safeway, Publix and Wegmans were cited as consistent top performers in the eyes of their trading partners since 1997, according to results of Cannondale Associates’ annual PoweRanking Study.
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In an effort to dramatically simplify and improve the way it promotes and supports sale items, supercenter pioneer Meijer, Inc. has implemented a streamlined system for its sale items, featuring Everyday Best Price, Sale and Price Drop tiers.
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As a way to celebrate its 25th anniversary of doing business, BJ’s Wholesale Club is asking the communities in which it operates clubs to amass 25 tons of groceries to help feed area needy families.
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Wine is back on the table for Tennessee state lawmakers, as a panel considers whether supermarkets and convenience stores should be allowed to sell the alcoholic beverage, reopening the ongoing fight over the state’s liquor laws, according to a published report.
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At long last, grocery shoppers in two western Pennsylvania communities will be able to enjoy the same convenience consumers in many parts of the country have long enjoyed: the ability to purchase beer at the supermarket.
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Kathleen S. Barclay has joined The Kroger Co. as its new SVP of human resources, where she will be responsible for leading all aspects of human resources for the nation’s largest traditional grocery retailer, which has a workforce of more than 326,000 associates.
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In tandem with a pledge to continue pursuing aggressive growth, leveraging global scale and expenses, and improving the returns of each operating segment to further enhance shareholder value during the 16th annual Meeting for the Investment Community, top leaders from Walmart yesterday announced a plan to offer deep-savings events and new everyday low prices weekly on thousands of items, effective immediately through the holiday period.
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This changing market is driven by a wide range of influences.
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Editors' picks for innovative products
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Perimeter promotions can help grocers make their goal of healthy fourth-quarter sales, by tapping into the exciting run-up to the Super Bowl, as well as other fall and winter seasonal opportunities.
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New techniques, a good price-to-quality ratio, and attention to marketing contribute to growth.
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ConAgra Foods, Inc. will sponsor the 24th annual National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) Best Bagger Championship, to be held Feb. 11, 2010, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas.
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The latest round of PG's Editors' Picks showcases a roundup of promising products to meet grocery shoppers' most pressing wants and needs.
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Just in time for the holidays, Supervalu’s Pittsburgh area owned and independently operated Shop ’n Save stores are once again offering a double Pump Perks promotion which enables customers to ear twice as many fuel incentive points with the purchase of gift cards.
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Despite a struggling economy and subsequent consumer concerns about value, the bottled water category can still deliver a tidal wave of retail sales.
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The Indiana state legislature is studying some of the interesting quirks of the state’s beverage laws by establishing an Interim Study Committee on Alcoholic Beverage Issues.
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Duane Reade this week is launching its own food and beverage brand, dubbed DR Delish. The New York-based drug store chain’s 25 original products include trail mixes, vitamin-enhanced teas, 100 percent juices, potato crisps, brownies, cookies and multigrain snacks.
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As part of Food Lion, LLC’s continuing “Take A Fresh Look” renewal initiative, the grocer has remodeled 31 stores in the Columbia, S.C., and Florence, S.C., markets, enlarging the offering and improving the overall store shopping experience over a number of months.
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As part of the ongoing “Be Good to Your Whole Body” initiative at its Whole Body departments, Whole Foods Market will train its sights on elevating customers’ moods naturally during the month of October.
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Well-respected industry executive Jim Donald has joined Bellingham, Wash.-based Haggen, Inc. as its president and CEO, replacing Dale Henley, who earlier this year said he would retire. In bringing Donald aboard as its new chief executive, the 33-store grocery store company is tapping one of the supermarket industry’s most experienced and talented executives.
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As the latest in a series of executive changes occurring at Supervalu, Duncan Mac Naughton, 47, has resigned as EVP of merchandising and marketing. No reason was given for his departure, which follows on the heels of the departures of two other senior executives -- Mike Jackson, Supervalu’s former president/COO, and Kevin Tripp, EVP and Midwest Retail division president -- who both left the company in mid-August amid a realignment of the Minneapolis-based retailer’s leadership structure.
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The most popular fair on earth began with the wedding of Prince Ludwig and Princess Theresa of Bavaria in 1810. The royal nuptials just happened to coincide with the harvest and the tapping of the new brew, so the celebration was on -- ever after, as it turned out. Since 1818, Oktoberfest has been an official celebration in the beer capital of the world -- and what a celebration it is!
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The Procter & Gamble Co. unveiled two multi-year commitments to improve the lives of millions of families across the globe at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). At the conference’s annual meeting in New York City, the Cincinnati-based company revealed its “Future Friendly” commitment, under which it aims to place P&G Sustainable Innovation Products in 30 million U.S. homes by the end of 2010.
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Keying in on time-starved, convenience seeking Chicagoland shoppers, Meijer has unveiled Grocery Express, a service that combines the convenience of online shopping with the ease, speed and attention offered by a personal shopper.
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Going to Seed
Pomegranates are big business, which means that the edible seeds — more often called arils — of the currently ubiquitous fruit are poised for a sales spike of their own.
 A Cup of Beauty
Consumers now can sip their way to a healthier, glowing complexion with Yogi Skin DeTox.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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