While retailers and their suppliers still engage in tense negotiations over core product transactions witness the recent critiques issued by Safeway's Steve Burd regarding CPG pricing trading partners are increasingly...
Safeway and Kraft Foods reported eliminating huge volumes of paperwork, saving thousands of labor hours and cutting out numerous invoicing errors as a result of transitioning from a paper-based process to a Web-based...
Hannaford Bros., Scarborough, Maine, this week is introducing a reusable shopping bag thats fold up and fits inside a 2-by-4-inch nylon pouch. The new bag, which measures 12 by 23 by 6 inches when unfolded, plus...
After many years of resistance, some U.S. food retailers are beginning to allow computers to bear the responsibility for replenishing the shelves in their stores. For example, at the Food Marketing Institute Show...
Industry association executives responded to a recent government report on traceability by acknowledging the report's disclosures about failures on the part of food facilities to follow federal traceability...
Produce Marketing Association executive Kathy Means expressed “concern” about a report issued last week by the Office of Inspector General that looked at compliance to the federal Bioterrorism Act.
In the wake of at least nine deaths, nearly 700 illnesses and more than 3,800 recalls tied to unsanitary conditions at processing plants operated by the Peanut Corp. of America, the role of the third-party auditing...
Despite the economic downturn, Peapod by Stop & Shop, a division of Ahold USA, has seen the number of new customers who have signed up for the online grocery shopping service grow by about 20% so far this year...