Displays & Signs

ST. LOUIS - In a bid to make it considerably easier for customers to enjoy authentic home-cooked meals at home, Schnuck Markets, Inc. here is rolling out two new culinary make-and-take meal prep concepts -- "Meal Creations" and "Schnucks Cooks" -- that offer a dash of food and cooking instruction, along with a large measure of convenience.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The National Pork Board is making available online a niche pork terminology fact sheet and poster for in-store use to help retailers educate consumers and promote niche pork products.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The National Pork Board is making available online a niche pork terminology fact sheet and poster for in-store use to help retailers educate consumers and promote niche pork products.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. here said yesterday it had purchased Best Cellars, a New York-based retailer known for merchandising reasonably priced wines by flavor instead of by origin, and has also hired the specialty wine shop's founder to head up a revamped alcoholic beverage concept.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. here said yesterday it had purchased Best Cellars, a New York-based retailer known for merchandising reasonably priced wines by flavor instead of by origin, and has also hired the specialty wine shop's founder to head up a revamped alcoholic beverage concept.

MAULDIN, S.C. -- Southeastern grocery chain Bi-Lo, LLC here has seen an average sales lift of 19 percent on one of its private label lines after a redesign by Topco, according to the Skokie, Ill.-based private label purveyor.

SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- In honor of the 25th anniversary of Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau's arrival in the United States, Hannaford Supermarkets and Les Vins Georges Duboeuf are offering complimentary in-store tastings in select Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont stores today and tomorrow between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Category management is helping the center store rebound from lackluster sales performance -- but the recovery still has a ways to go.