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The Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) is backing away from the catalyst role it endeavored to fill beginning last spring on the potential creation of a national fruit and vegetable research and promotion board.
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Harold Lloyd, president, of H. Lloyd & Associates, Inc; Art Turock, president of Art Turock & Associates; and Dr. Richard George, professor of food marketing at Saint Joseph’s University will present during the National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) Super Breakfast Sessions at the 2010 N.G.A. Annual Convention and Supermarket Synergy Showcase (S3), to be held Feb. 9 to Feb. 12, 2010, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Snack food giants Snyder’s of Hanover and Utz Quality Foods have called off their pending merger, after learning late last week that their first and second filings had failed to earn clearance by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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In testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Terrorism and Homeland Security, representatives of four federal law enforcement agencies reported growth in organized retail crime (ORC) and highlighted the many risks the activity poses to consumers and communities.
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Retail technology solutions provider Retalix yesterday launched a new inbound freight management system for both retailers and wholesale distributors.
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Ukrop’s Super Markets Inc. overhauled its fuelperks! program this week, making customers cash in rewards sooner and work harder to attain them, according to a published report.
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Walmart has introduced significant price cuts on Thanksgiving meal staples, as well as on TVs and other popular electronics.
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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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Pittsburgh’s grocery scene became a lot larger today with the long awaited unveiling of Giant Eagle’s 150,000-square-foot flagship Market District destination store in the new Settlers Ridge lifestyle shopping center in Robinson Township.
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Shopper, an iPhone Shopping Assistant from New York-based ReachEverywhere, now offers weekly flyers from more than 100 retailers, including Target, Best Buy, Kmart, Sears, Meijer, Walgreens, Lowes and Home Depot, enabling users to find deals on products without having to flip through printed circulars.
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Supervalu’s Chicago-based Jewel-Osco subsidiary will present over $2 million in cash and food donations to five major food banks and scores of food pantries in Illinois and northwest Indiana as part of its “Hunger Relief Grant Program.”
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Two grocery industry figures have been recognized for their efforts to promote diversity in the workplace and, by extension, the wider community.
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Walmart and the Walmart Foundation yesterday rolled out “Walmart Gives Back,” a holiday giving program that will contribute $32 million in monetary and in-kind donations to charities across the nation.
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Thirty-four Supervalu-owned Albertsons stores that were purchased by Associated Foods have re-opened yesterday following a weekend rebranding to Fresh Market and a restocking of the stores with the new owner’s branded products.
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D’Agostino Supermarkets plans to install new coupon-printing kiosks at its 18 supermarkets in New York City and its suburbs.
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Fairbank Farms, an Asheville, N.Y.-based ground beef supplier, has issued a voluntary recall for fresh ground beef sold in eight eastern states, after it emerged that about 545,699 pounds produced by the company between Sept. 14 and Sept. 16 might be tainted with E.coli O157:H7.
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Sprouts Farmers Market, a Phoenix-based natural and organic foods retailer, yesterday joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership and voluntarily committed to reducing refrigerant emissions in an effort to fight climate change and protect the earth’s ozone layer.
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Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. plans to acquire 20 pharmacies located inside of its Pick ’n Save and Copps stores in Wisconsin that are operated by Aurora Health Care.
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Delhaize-owned Food Lion, LLC and refrigeration manufacturer Kysor//Warren have rolled out a cascading refrigeration system that uses naturally occurring carbon dioxide to keep frozen and fresh foods cold.
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Weis Markets’ month-long “Fight Hunger” food drive generated $210,000 in customer food and monetary donations to local food banks and pantries throughout its five-state marketing area, which will be complemented by $200,000 in corporate donations to eight regional food banks.
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United Supermarkets’ Market Street banner has launched a new holiday promotion that offers shoppers a free Traditions brand turkey with a $100 purchase now through Nov. 25.
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Canadian grocer Metro, Inc. will become the first supermarket chain in that country to offer reusable produce bags in all of its 484 stores in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
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Price Chopper Supermarkets/Golub Corp. has promoted Larry Ritzert to the position of VP of meat merchandising, reporting directly to Mark Brown, VP of perishable merchandising. Ritzert succeeds Jerry Wallace, who has left the company
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Shaw’s Star Market at Chestnut Hill in Newton, Mass., yesterday became the first grocery store in the nation to receive the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Partnership platinum store award for its advanced refrigeration technology, which cuts the use of refrigerants by 85 percent compared with the typical supermarket, according to EPA.
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Store brands have built momentum during the recession. Will consumers stick with private label frozen when better days arrive? Or will they return to the national brands they used previously?
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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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