SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The in-store bakery sits right up front in Big Y's World Class store format, and it holds a prominent position in the 42-unit chain's strategy for fresh-foods marketing as well.At the chain's...
HIAWASSEE, Fla. -- Gooding's Supermarkets, Apopka, Fla., invited the future -- 500 cases worth of future -- into its meat cases here for a day, to feel what it would be like to fill up and merchandise an entire...
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Fresh Del Monte here is on a path to becoming a broader-line supplier to the supermarket trade, and "a real player in the market" in the next several years, according to its chairman and chief...
WEST CALDWELL, N.J. -- RLB Food Distributors here is staging what it expects to be a one-of-a-kind food show, one that will assemble cutting-edge products for supermarket produce, deli and home-meal replacement...
DALLAS -- The founder of Boston Chicken said the quintessential home-meal replacement format could be an "absolute winner" inside a supermarket, but only if consumers could get to it easily -- and that condition is...
CINCINNATI -- The Kroger Co. is poised to give case-ready fresh meat its biggest real-world trial to date in the United States, with a pilot project that could enable the chain to virtually eliminate meat-cutting at...
LAS VEGAS -- The challenges to the prosperity, even survival, of the independent supermarket sector are many, but they point mostly to one issue: the operator's relationship to the consumer, said a panel of retail...
NEW YORK -- Its growth rate may have slowed compared with last year, but the market for value-added fresh produce has still not hit its peak, according to an industry study newly released by FIND/SVP here.Heavy...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The government is at the drafting table working on "voluntary" guidelines for the produce industry's fight against microbial hazards, guidelines that many suspect could have the effect of regulation...
CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. here has been adding a "Vegetarian Meal Solutions" section located in the produce department to a growing number of its stores, according to industry sources.The section is based on a concept...