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  • Tops Investing in Stores, Initiatives to Boost Business

    WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. -- In line with parent company Ahold USA's determination to beef up its soft supermarket sales, Tops Markets, LLC, based here, said yesterday it was undertaking a series of steps to raise its profile in its core western New York market.

  • Food Helps Lift BJ's March Sales

    NATICK, Mass. -- Food sales continue to help boost the bottom line at BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. here, which yesterday posted March 2006 sales increase of 7.3 percent to $712.7 million, from $664.2 million in March 2005. On a comparable-club basis, sales grew 3.1 percent, including a contribution from gas sales of about 0.9 percent.

  • Healthy Partnership Between Kellogg and Retailers Goes Nationwide

    BATTLE CREEK, Mich. -- Leading CPG manufacturer Kellogg Co. here is in the midst of rolling out its Healthy Beginnings program to more than 70 grocery retailers nationwide, to help consumers better understand how to improve their health.

  • Stop & Shop/Giant Offers Free Healthy Living Booklet

    QUINCY, Mass. -- In keeping with its continuing efforts to educate customers on the USDA MyPyramid food groups, the Ahold USA-owned Stop & Shop/Giant Food arena has released a new free quarterly Healthy Living booklet, "Super Star Foods."

  • Hy-Vee to Host Elite World Cup Triathlon in 2007

    DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hy-Vee based here will host the first ITU World Cup Triathlon in June 2007, vaulting Des Moines into the ranks of leading sports cities of the world.

  • GMA Reveals New RFID Proposals

    WASHINGTON -- During its Information Systems/Logistics Distribution Conference in Tucson, Ariz., the Grocery Manufacturers Association, based here, yesterday unveiled its new proposals to speed adoption rates of the Electronic Product Code and radio frequency identification (EPC/RFID)

  • Harris Teeter to Install Biometric Payment Systems Chainwide

    MATTHEWS, N.C. -- Harris Teeter is the latest of the larger regional operators installing biometric payment systems at the checkouts chainwide.

  • Canadian Grocers Group Strikes Blow Against Meds Shelf Ban

    TORONTO -- The Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers (CFIG) here has obtained a legal opinion saying that in the province of Ontario, implementation of the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) recommendation to take many cough, cold and allergy remedies from grocery shelves is beyond the legal jurisdiction of the Ontario College of Pharmacists.
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