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NEW YORK -- Organic produce has sold so well for A&P's Food Emporium chain here that it plans to make 70 organic items available within a year.Food Emporium, part of Montvale, N.J.-based A&P's Metro division, began selling organics a year ago. It...
BALTIMORE -- Farm Fresh Supermarkets of Baltimore here is resetting its juice aisles in an effort to make the juice category more shopper-friendly -- and it's boosting sales in the process.The new strategy, which groups all canned items together...
CHICAGO -- A successful proactive competitive stance against a Super Kmart Center has prompted Farm Fresh, Norfolk, Va., to commit to a more aggressive position against supercenters, Michael E. Julian, the chain's chairman, president and chief...
SALT LAKE CITY -- American Stores Co. here, which has unveiled a number of new formats lately, is considering a new one geared to fresh foods, a company official told SN.The company is mulling two units -- one in Salt Lake City and the other in...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Price Chopper Supermarkets here has made a big statement with produce in a new store in downtown Albany.The statement includes mass displays, more variety and the widest produce aisles the chain has ever used.In addition, the...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores is testing a new concept in prepared foods at one of its traditional units in Rogers, Ark., just a few miles from its headquarters here.The company has designated a "Meals on the Go" section at the front of the...
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Fresh Fields here is highlighting its natural foods approach with a new series of coupon offers geared to specific fresh foods departments.Officials from Fresh Fields could not be reached for comment about the coupon campaign...
GREENWICH, Conn. -- Fresh Fields has come to Connecticut, prepared to feed time-hungry consumers looking for meals to take home or back to the office.The Rockville, Md.-based retailer has also come to educate them about the nutritional content of...
BALTIMORE -- Several independent retailers based here have established $1 general merchandise sections that, in some locations, encompass an entire side of the grocery aisle.The sections, created in an effort to compete with dollar sections at...
Outposting of greeting cards is converting grocery shoppers into card buyers at supermarkets. Greeting card outposts, or supplemental card shippers, have been used by supermarkets for the past several years to draw attention to greeting card...