Cause Marketing/ Community Programs

All sorts of consumers are interested in eating healthier foods and living better lives. It's up to grocers to decide how their stores fit in.

SEATTLE - Community-based independent Metropolitan Market yesterday began offering reusable shopping bags made of 100 percent recycled polypropylene.

COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores, Inc. here has joined forces with Boston-based Oldways, a non-profit food issues think tank, and its Latino Nutrition Coalition (LNC) to distribute "Camino Magico," a bilingual guide to healthy shopping, in more than 25 of Minyard's Carnival Supermarkets in north Texas.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. here yesterday won the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for promoting green business practices and implementing significant environmental initiatives throughout its operations.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. here yesterday won the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for promoting green business practices and implementing significant environmental initiatives throughout its operations.

CINCINNATI -- The Kroger Co. here and its family of stores are once again supporting The Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle campaign this holiday season. Funds raised through the campaign provide services in more than 5,000 communities across the country.

SEATTLE - Community-based independent Metropolitan Market yesterday began offering reusable shopping bags made of 100 percent recycled polypropylene.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. here yesterday won the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for promoting green business practices and implementing significant environmental initiatives throughout its operations.