Food

ST. LOUIS - Wal-Mart, Target, and Meijer are among a growing list of retailers that will offer biodegradable dinnerware made from corn, potatoes, and limestone in time for the 2007 picnic season.

ST. LOUIS - Wal-Mart, Target, and Meijer are among a growing list of retailers that will offer biodegradable dinnerware made from corn, potatoes, and limestone in time for the 2007 picnic season.

QUINCY, Mass. - Rising costs are prompting the Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. here to switch some of its seafood sections from service to self-service in the course of this year. Further details of the planned changeover, including how many departments are converting and when, are still pending, according to the retailer.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market, Inc. said yesterday that it had extended the expiration date for its tender offer to purchase outstanding shares of Wild Oats Markets, Inc. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, a move prompted by a second request for information on the proposed transaction from the Federal Trade Commission.

ST. LOUIS - Wal-Mart, Target, and Meijer are among a growing list of retailers that will offer biodegradable dinnerware made from corn, potatoes, and limestone in time for the 2007 picnic season.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Tom Lange Co., Inc. based here and Dole Fresh Fruit Co., a subsidiary of Dole Food Co., are in a partnership to distribute watermelons. Under the agreement, The Tom Lange Co. will be the licensee for Dole brand watermelons, responsible for the sourcing, marketing and distribution of melons.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market, Inc. said yesterday that it had extended the expiration date for its tender offer to purchase outstanding shares of Wild Oats Markets, Inc. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, a move prompted by a second request for information on the proposed transaction from the Federal Trade Commission.

WASHINGTON -- The Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products Association (GMA/FPA) took part yesterday in the inaugural meeting of "Media and Childhood Obesity: Today and Tomorrow," a joint task force on media and childhood obesity, of which the organization is a member.