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Jan. 27, 2012
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Merchandising Trends: Driving Consumption Through Shopper Marketing

SymphonyIRI's Times & Trends highlights new developments and critical events across all major CPG categories and channels, providing powerful benchmarking data to help guide your strategic decisions. This issue of Times & Trends explores current and emerging merchandising trends that CPG marketers have embraced during the past few years in an effort to satisfy consumers’ rapidly changing definition of value....More
Jan. 23, 2012
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Fresh Moves Brings Produce by Big Red Bus

Schools, hospitals, community and senior centers — these are just some stops that the mobile market Fresh Moves makes as it moves through the West Side of Chicago....More
Jan. 23, 2012
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Whole Foods Cites Benefits of ‘Conscious Capitalism’

NEW YORK — Companies that devote themselves to a broader, more philanthropic mission can reap benefits on the bottom line, according to panelists discussing “conscious capitalism” at the National Retail Federation 101st Annual Convention and Expo here last week....More
Jan. 23, 2012
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Onstead To Be CEO After Winn-Dixie Acquisition 1

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Winn-Dixie Stores here confirmed last week that longtime supermarket-industry veteran Randall Onstead will take over as president and chief executive officer of Bi-Lo and Winn-Dixie after the two companies complete their planned merger in the coming weeks....More
Jan. 23, 2012
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United Promotes Disease Prevention

MULESHOE, Texas — A United Supermarkets here is flagging nutrient-dense foods and teaching residents how to cook with them as part of a bid to prevent cancer in a rural community....More
Jan. 23, 2012
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Food Lion Redraws Its Footprint

SALISBURY, N.C. — Food Lion’s decision to reduce its presence in several markets throughout the Southeast, combined with its planned conversion of 64 Bloom and Bottom Dollar stores to Food Lion, shifts the banner’s geographic concentration to skew more heavily to its northernmost markets and opens up market-share opportunities for rivals in the South....More

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