National Grocers Association (NGA)

Independent grocer trade group National Grocers Association yesterday inked an agreement with retail technology vendor Pan-Oston to provide association members with special discounts and services on a variety of front-end technologies, including point-of-sale and self-checkout systems and retail display products.

The videos will review new products and analyze major industry trends.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Woman Grocers of America (WGA) here will present Mary Ellen Gowin, v.p., consumer & corporate communications at Elizabeth, N.J.-based Wakefern Food Corp., with the WGA Woman of the Year Award tomorrow. Gowin will receive the award at the Chairman's Dinner and Gala of the 2008 National Grocers Association (NGA) Annual Convention and Supermarket Synergy Showcase in Las Vegas.

LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- The results of D'Agostino Supermarkets' first NYC Best Bagger Championship are in, and America Evins of the grocer's Lexington Avenue and 76th Street location was the winner, the chain said.

The 'c.e.o.' of many a family business -- we all know who that is.

ABINGDON, Va. -- Jack C. Smith, founder and chairman of the board at K-VA-T Food Stores, the operator of Food City supermarkets in the Southeast, died yesterday in his home here after a brief illness. He was 81.

WITCHITA, Kan. -- Tom Hayes, president of Cargill Meat Solutions here, will offer his perspective on translating corporate value into sustained action in his keynote address at the American Meat Institute Foundation's Animal Care and Handling Conference, coming in late March.

WITCHITA, Kan. -- Tom Hayes, president of Cargill Meat Solutions here, will offer his perspective on translating corporate value into sustained action in his keynote address at the American Meat Institute Foundation's Animal Care and Handling Conference, coming in late March.