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Hits & Misses
Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert reviews Utz Select Everything Pretzels, 3 Musketeers Raspberry with Dark Chocolate Minis, Qbel Milk Chocolate Wafer Rolls, Gourmé Mist Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and Wild Smart Salmon Kenyan Coffee BBQ Sauce in his latest Hits & Misses video – exclusive to Progressive Grocer.


 
Free Live Webcast - Meal Solutions for Tough Times: How supermarkets and retailers can seize on a growing trend with savory, low-cost meal options




Join Progressive Grocer on November 5th at 2PM EST for this live, interactive webcast, sponsored by Kraft Foods and hear from experts regarding how you can bring consumers solutions they value during the current economic climate. Attend this online-only event and learn how retailers are successfully marketing fresh meals and frozen foods as meal solutions, and how they cross-merchandizing items from different departments. Click here to register now. More >>

 
 
PROGRESSIVE GROCER’S 4th ANNUAL TOP WOMEN IN GROCERY AWARDS NOMINATION FORM 2010




Progressive Grocer is seeking your help in compiling our annual list of leading women in the supermarket industry, to be featured in our annual Top Women in Grocery issue. In a business where males have traditionally far outnumbered females, we recognize the women who are helping initiate change. These women represent all major sectors of the grocery industry - retailers, suppliers, and wholesalers. More >>

 
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PBH Backs Away from National Fruit, Vegetable Promo Board
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.

Lloyd, Turock, George, to Present at N.G.A. Super Breakfast Sessions
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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Produce OpsProgressive 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.

CES Front PagePG'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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