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Mar. 10, 2013

IBSS 2013: Price Chopper Says DNA Testing Is 'Right Thing'

At a session at IBSS, Price Chopper's vice president of seafood merchandising Lee French called his company's seafood DNA testing doing “the right....More
Mar. 10, 2013

Expo West 2013: What’s Next for GMO Labeling?

We’re still going to find that there are trace amounts of GMOs in natural foods. It’s kind of too late....More
Mar. 8, 2013

IBSS 2013: The Fraud Fight Continues

This weekend I head to Beantown for the International Boston Seafood Show. As it was last year, a hot topic of the 2013 show will be seafood....More
Mar. 8, 2013

Expo West 2013: Whole Foods Pursues GMO Labeling

There are labeling laws in some 60-odd countries around the world right now, including Syria, for crying out loud....More
Mar. 7, 2013

Expo West 2013: Savory Gets Funky

The tomato mint tea brought it all home: Savory is the It flavor this year at Expo West....More
Mar. 7, 2013

Expo West 2013: What’s New?

There are some changes you notice right off the bat as we all re-convene in Anaheim, Calif., for this year’s Natural Products Expo West show....More
Feb. 26, 2013

Meat Conference 2013: Meat Names Simplified

The beef and pork boards released the list of ....More
Feb. 25, 2013

Meat Conference 2013: Meat Trends

Many of the products at today's tasting reception at the Annual Meat Conference exemplified hot trends in the meat category....More
Feb. 25, 2013

Meat Conference 2013: Shake Up That Ad

Retailers should be thinking more like food magazines when they are putting together their ads, according to the Nielsen Perishables Group's Shery....More
Feb. 24, 2013

Meat Conference 2013: Quality Isn't Just Quality

With food, there are three levels of quality, according to the Hartman Group's Harvey Hartman in his "Unwrapping the Food Culture" presentation at....More
Feb. 23, 2013

Meat Conference 2013: Landed in Nashville

I'm in Nashville, Tenn. for this year's Annual Meat Conference, organized by the Food Marketing Institute and the American Meat Institute Foundation....More
Feb. 11, 2013

SN Total Access Video: 2013 NGA Show

Supermarket independents have gathered in Las Vegas, Nev., for the 2013 NGA Show, and we are taking an insider’s look through interviews with....More
Feb. 6, 2013

Supply Chain Conference: Logistics Gets Its Due

Even its most ardent defenders would acknowledge that the supply chain part of the grocery business is not its sexiest component. Indeed supply chain....More
Jan. 15, 2013

NRF 2013: A Different Kind of ROI

On Jan. 12, one day before the opening of the National Retail Federation’s annual conference, I attended another event in New York for the first time....More
Jan. 14, 2013

NRF 2013: The ‘Big’ News

“Big” is the watchword for the National Retail Federation’s 102nd Annual Conference, which began Sunday and runs through Wednesday at the Jacob K....More
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Liz Webber

Liz Webber is Associate Editor, Fresh Market at Supermarket News. She covers produce, meat, seafood, deli, bakery, floral, dairy and fresh meal news. She joined SN in August 2012.
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