It's been the best of times and the worst of times for Unified Grocers. During the past year, the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the Western U.S. continued to add new members, including Alaskan & Proud and ...
The past year has been quite productive for Gregg Steinhafel, Target Corp.'s chairman, president and chief executive officer. Target began an aggressive remodeling program in 2010, announced its first foray o...
At a press conference held last month to introduce the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new MyPlate dietary guideline icon, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack discussed improving the nation's diet in terms of pr...
Sightings of the fluffy white bear that adorns packages of Bimbo-brand bread are becoming more common in U.S. supermarkets. But while the bear may not yet be the star here that he is in Central and South America...
Last month, First Lady Michelle Obama introduced the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new MyPlate icon, which is meant to help translate the department's dietary guidelines into a simple visual aid. The new plate...
With food prices on the rise and the economy mired in a sluggish recovery, shoppers are still looking for ways to save. In meat departments, many frugal shoppers have been falling into two distinct camps. On one end...
For retailers and restaurants with a knack for marketing, the local food trend has offered plenty of opportunities to tell their customers great stories about local farmers and producers. In-store posters, profiles on...
In a series of recent focus groups conducted in Chicago and the Washington, D.C., area by Shugoll Research and Midan Marketing, many shoppers complained that supermarket meat departments were both boring and confusing...
LEAKY MEAT PACKAGES HAVE long been a pet peeve for shoppers, and during her presentation of the annual Power of Meat study at the 2011 Meat Conference in Dallas, research consultant Anne-Marie Roerink said that...