BOSTON -- Retailers selling seafood should invest more money and training in their seafood department associates who are in touch with consumers every day, a panel of experts said recently.Using humor and skits to...
BOSTON -- Whether consumers buy seafood only if it's sustainably harvested remains an open question, according to a panel of experts.No matter, since many companies actively try to sell only -- or mostly -...
Organic-farmed fish is still a novelty in markets in the United States, Europe and Japan. Nevertheless, demand, especially for organic salmon, is expected to grow rapidly, even without a U.S. standard for organic...
The seafood department has undergone profound changes in the past 50 years, especially considering that few supermarkets even had fresh seafood until the late 1970s. Until then, retailers mostly sold fish in the...
Retailers recognize that adding value to fresh seafood products represents the best chance to align the department with the opportunities found in the take-home meal category. However, adding value in the store has...
BOSTON -- The seafood category is being transformed by increasingly higher margin demands from consolidated chains operating under the burden of stepped-up profit pressures.Such forces on the department will determine...
BOSTON -- New seafood products, the latest advances in food-safety techniques and retail seafood profitability are a few of the topics that will be addressed during seminars at the 20th annual International Boston...
When the Government Accounting Office published a report slamming the Food and Drug Administration's relatively new monitoring system designed to make seafood safer to eat, the general public sat up and noticed.It...
The beef category may be capturing most of the headlines in the ongoing case-ready debate. But the questions haven't stopped retailers from quietly testing or adding prewrapped products to their seafood departments...
EAST WENATCHEE, Wash. -- A majority of retailers say retail consolidation, item proliferation and increasing financial performance pressures are compelling them to seek more than just products from their suppliers...