Supermarket News
Supermarkets Could Improve Health Messages: Speakers
LAS VEGAS — Supermarkets have the opportunity to better tailor health-related messages to individual consumers, according to Stephen Vowles, senior vice president of marketing at Stop & Shop and Giant-Landover....
Kroger Sees Benefits From ‘New Way’ Collaboration
LAS VEGAS — Kroger Co. here said working in collaborative teams with some key suppliers on joint-business planning is helping the retailer to better focus on satisfying the consumer and is creating a more synchronized supplier-retailer team. ...
Sustainability Task Force Calls for Use of Reusable Bags
LAS VEGAS — The Food Marketing Institute’s Sustainability Task Force has recommended to the FMI board that the food retailing industry “should promote the use of reusable bags” instead of paper or plastic bags, said Bob Garrity, senior vice president, store planning, construction & conservation for Giant Eagle, Pittsburgh. Garrity, chairman of the task force, provided an update on its activities on Monday at the FMI Show/Marketechnics here. The task force is also calling for making the recycling process of paper and plastic bags available to consumers. Garrity added that the task force expects federal legislation on carbon footprint restrictions will be passed. In response, “we should have a common language on what a carbon footprint is and what we should do as an industry,” he said. “We’re working on providing tools the industry can use to understand [the meaning of] carbon footprint.”...
Integration Costs Widen A&P 4Q Loss
MONTVALE, N.J. — A 3% rise in comparable-store sales — including the best quarter at Pathmark in more than three years — helped lift fourth-quarter sales at A&P here to $2.2 billion but expenses in integrating the newly acquired Pathmark stores accelerated net losses to $61.5 million. ...
Community Service Key for Manager Award Winners
LAS VEGAS — Mark Halvorson of Cub Foods, Cheryl Rondenelli of Hannaford Bros. and Ralph Towery of MarketPlace Foods were presented with the Grand Prizes in the Food Marketing Institute Store Manager of the Year Awards at the FMI Show here yesterday....
Publix Gives High Priority to Sustainability Initiative
LAS VEGAS — Though Publix has been focused on conservation since its founding in the 1930s, the company “was in the closet” on sustainability until last July, said Michael Hewett, manager of environmental services, Publix Super Markets, Lakeland, Fla., yesterday at the FMI Show/Marketechnics here. ...
SN Acknowledges Technology Excellence
LAS VEGAS — SN presented the 2008 Technology Excellence Awards yesterday at the FMI Show/Marketechnics to Ahold USA, Associated Grocers, Baton Rouge, and Newport Avenue Market, winners in the chain, wholesaler and independent categories, respectively. ...
Needs of Senior Consumers Often Overlooked
LAS VEGAS — Despite possessing more than 75% of the nation's wealth, the needs and preferences of the country's 78 million Baby Boomers, and other members of the senior market, are often overlooked, Paul Murray, creative director for the Varsity marketing consultancy told attendees at the Food Marketing Institute show here yesterday. ...
Pharmacy Speaker: Rx Compliance is Two-Way Street
LAS VEGAS — To improve compliance in patients taking their prescriptions, supermarket pharmacists need to take a greater interest in the person, and engage in more two-way communication, according to a speaker at the FMI Supermarket Pharmacy Conference here yesterday, which is co-located with the FMI Show. ...
Manufacturers Add Flavor to Get Around Bottled Water Woes
LAS VEGAS — Manufacturers are responding to the bottled water backlash by introducing flavored water varieties that tout functional benefits which differentiate them from tap water, according to Lynn Dornblaser, director of Mintel's custom solutions' group. ...
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