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DUBLIN, Calif. -- There's a new sense of urgency regarding supermarket personnel practices.A series of multimillion-dollar settlements by retailers operating in northern California -- stemming from charges of sex discrimination against female...
CLIFTON, N.J. -- The New Jersey Packaging Executives Club has presented its 1993 Package of the Year award to Elizabeth Arden for its Sunflowers die-cut sleeve, reverse-tuck carton combination with precisely aligned reversed flower images. Rough...
DUBLIN, Calif. -- Lucky Stores here has become the most recent focus in a state-led probe of supermarket meat-handling practices that began early last year.Last month, investigators from the state attorney general's office served a search warrant...
CORUM, N.Y. -- At the grand opening of its newest unit here, retailer Wise Buys constructed the world's largest cereal display ever, using 100,800 10-ounce boxes, or 4,200 cases, of General Mills Cheerios.The display was 80 feet long, 20 feet high...
HOUSTON -- Coca-Cola Foods is leveraging a "megabranding" strategy with extensive in-store marketing to gain aisle space for its Minute Maid Naturals line of shelf-stable juices.The new line of six juice flavors, packaged in 46-ounce and 64-ounce...
Supermarket deli executives have resolved to bring convenience, variety and quality to the next level for 1994 -- and to make money doing it. There will be more emphasis on complete meals and on offering a larger selection of prepared entrees...
The president's plan to reform health care, called the American Health Security Act of 1993, would establish a system of regional health alliances to ensure that all Americans are covered by health plans that provide nationally guaranteed benefits...
Roundy's Taps Unit President's here has named Ralph Beketic president of its Milwaukee division.He succeeds Jerry Lestina, who was named president and chief operating officer of Roundy's last fall. Beketic, who was vice president of sales for the...
The supermarket industry is rallying around SIL as a standard for computer communication between individual stores and the corporate distribution centers and outside wholesalers that supply them.A special task force set up by the Joint Industry...