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  • GROCERY: Nature trail

    With an emphasis on good nutrition, innovative products, and savvy merchandising, retailers and manufacturers of natural/organic branded and private label RTE cereals are proving that health sells.

  • Albertsons Cooks Up All Natural Signature Ground Beef

    BOISE, Idaho -- Adding more firepower to its premium store brand mix, Albertsons based here is rolling out Wild Harvest all natural ground beef products in its Philadelphia-based Acme Markets and Chicago-based Jewel-Osco divisions.

  • Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers: In-Store TV to Track Local Storms During Hurricane Season

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Shoppers in hurricane-prone states know just how quickly things can take a turn for the worse. Thanks to the Wal-Mart Television Network, Wal-Mart shoppers in the Southeast will now know exactly what the weather is doing throughout their shopping trip, right up until the time they check out.

  • Shaw's Got Milk Price Fines

    AUGUSTA, Maine -- The Maine Milk Commission, a consumer watchdog group that ensures the price of milk is not set unfairly low, has entered into a consent agreement with West Bridgewater, Mass.-based Shaw's, fining the grocer $5,000 for violations that occurred in January and constituted the chain's third offense in five years, according to published reports.

  • Boston-area Shaw's Installing Media Network

    WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Shaw's Supermarkets here is installing 15-inch video monitors at checkout counters, in addition to 42-inch plasma TV screens, at 93 Shaw's and Star Market stores in the Boston area, as part of a chainwide media network, according to a report in the city's Herald newspaper.

  • Albertsons Appoints New Director

    BOISE, Idaho -- Albertsons, Inc. here said yesterday it named Wayne C. Sales a member of the board of directors this week.

  • More Consumers Find Little Difference Between Private Label Products and National Brands: Survey

    NEW YORK -- According to double-blind taste tests conducted in 10 locations across the country by Meyers Research Center for the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA), consumers by a 51-percent-to-49-percent say the prefer the taste of private label items over their national brand counterparts in 12 popular categories.

  • Cost-Cutting, Regained Share, New Merchandising Behind Albertsons' Strong Q1

    BOISE, Idaho -- The acquisition of Shaw's, recovery of market share in Southern California, continued cost-cutting, and new national merchandising programs launched across the company's banners were behind Albertsons Inc.'s successful first quarter, reported yesterday.
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