Walmart

The Supermarket Guru peers deep into his crystal ball to see what trends this coming year will bring for the food industry.

Walmart has introduced significant price cuts on Thanksgiving meal staples, as well as on TVs and other popular electronics.

Walmart and the Walmart Foundation yesterday rolled out “Walmart Gives Back,” a holiday giving program that will contribute $32 million in monetary and in-kind donations to charities across the nation.

Autumn marks the arrival of flu season, and this year, in addition to the flu bugs that typically strike, Americans have the H1N1 virus to worry about.

Walgreens chief innovation officer Colin Watts was in town last week to host a jury preview of the upcoming Product of the Year awards, an annual consumer-driven competition.

Walmart, Kroger, Target, Safeway, Publix and Wegmans were cited as consistent top performers in the eyes of their trading partners since 1997, according to results of Cannondale Associates’ annual PoweRanking Study.

Clorox and Wal-Mart are top-of-mind when consumers think of green companies -- ranking far beyond even such Earth-friendly companies as Whole Foods Market, according to a new monthly tracking service from Oakland, Calif.-based Greener World Media.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. last week took the wraps off its worldwide plans for store and club growth next year at its annual conference for the investment community, and updated its projections for capital expenditures through the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2011.