SALT LAKE CITY -- Renting a car was never so easy -- at least not for shoppers at Smith's Food & Drug Centers, the 109-store retailer based here.What started as an experiment a few years ago has turned into an...
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- Three months after the earthquake that measured 6.6 on the Richter scale shook Los Angeles, the Sunkist Growers cooperative based here, right near the epicenter, is still getting its...
NEW YORK -- Red Apple Cos. here has gone organic and wants everyone in New York City to know about it.The chain recently took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times announcing that a branded line of...
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- A machine that does what a growing number of banks are refusing to do is becoming a mini gold mine for a handful of West Coast retailers, including Raley's, Save Mart Supermarkets and Quality Food...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The term "fresh" used for poultry products is getting a lot of scrutiny in the state of California.The state is appealing an April 8 decision by the U.S. District Court here that struck down a...
WASHINGTON -- The more consumers know about food irradiation, the more they want it -- however, they know very little, according to a national study recently sponsored by the American Meat Institute Foundation here...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National Fisheries Institute here will be surveying seafood industry members this summer to measure their support for a generic advertising and promotional campaign that it will likely propose...
AKRON, Ohio -- Fred W. Albrecht Co. here is installing new front-end point-of-sale systems in all 36 of its Acme, Acme SuperCenter and Y-Mart stores.The new systems will help boost data communications speed and...
Christmas is the season for candy sales, according to retailers contacted by SN, who pulled out a bag filled with ideas for keeping this year's sales going strong.Displaying candy in high-traffic areas, cross...
With just weeks until the federal government's new labeling law goes into effect, supermarket bakery and deli executives across the country are pushing to be in compliance by the May 8 deadline.Some are still...