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NEW YORK - More than 130,000 visitors from across the globe embarked upon Paris last week to attend SIAL 2002, a biennial trade show for food industry executives.

HAMMOND, Ind. - Food 4 Less, a price-impact supermarket chain owned and operated by the Kroger Co., is expanding its reach in the greater Chicagoland area with a new store in Hammond, Ind.

LANSING, Mich.-- Leaders of two Michigan retailer groups called a white paper issued by Attorney General Jennifer Granholm a "slap in the face to the retail industry."

PHILADELPHIA-With 39,000 Pennsylvanians on its payroll, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has become the biggest employer in the Keystone State, according to a report in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer

AUSTIN, Texas -- Some 55 percent of Americans have tried organic foods and 87 percent of regular organics buyers rate them as being of higher quality.

PITTSBURGH - Pittsburgh-based retailer Giant Eagle Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will open 900-square-foot Starbucks licensed locations inside each of five Pittsburgh-area stores.

GENEVA - A U.N. human rights envoy Tuesday questioned the safety of genetically modified (GM) food and said big corporations had more to gain from its use than poor countries fighting starvation, Reuters reports.

Scores of manufacturer promotions ensure the checkout lane will be the big winner this Super Bowl season.

Larry Johnston's re-energized management team is abandoning weak markets, hacking costs, and working a plan to be the nation's top food and drug retailer.

Americans' fascination with the DVD format is driving new sales and a new realization that video can work for the food channel.

One man's escape from Cuba was the beginning of an American dream that still sustains his son and grandson.

Three words of advice for retailers looking to grow fresh seafood sales: shrimp, salmon, tilapia.