BOSTON -- A seafood contractor and former retailer blasted supermarket seafood departments for their quality problems during a meeting preceding the annual International Boston Seafood Show here.Independent seafood...
Speakers at meat industry conferences keep saying that the time is nigh for branding to transform the fresh meat case.Maybe so, but to a lot of retailers it seems that a brand is a brand is a brand -- and by any name...
NEW YORK -- A cable TV magazine show has raised questions about the safety of hot dogs, claiming that lab analyses detected the presence of listeria in tested products."We decided to see whether contaminated hot dogs...
SALISBURY, Md. -- Eight supermarket chains are testing a meat department category management program developed by Perdue Farms here, in a bid to improve poultry category sales and meat department performance as a...
Applying Efficient Consumer Response principles to the perishables department is not as hard as it looks. And doing so yields benefits that are at least as significant as those achieved in dry goods.These are among...
OAK BROOK, Ill. -- McDonald's decision to discontinue three of its low-fat menu items has raised a few eyebrows among trend spotters.While the McLean Deluxe hamburger, the chef salad and side salad will no longer be...
A "Prime Time Live" segment exposing the use of illegal drugs in cattle feed has failed to arouse much angst among retailers or consumers.During the segment, which aired Feb. 7, Chris Wallace of "Prime Time Live"...
Natural and organic birds appear to have had their 15 minutes of fame in supermarkets, but in most parts of the country there will always be room for free-range poultry.That's the meat case gospel among retailers...
Low-fat products are continuing to gain in popularity, representing the majority of some category sales in supermarket dairies, according to analysis of scanning data from A.C. Nielsen, Schaumburg, Ill.Fat-free...
NEW ORLEANS -- The turkey industry must concentrate on more sophisticated, consumer-oriented marketing methods or it will perish in the wake of other meat providers, said an official of the National Turkey Federation...