Promotion Management

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

Stemilt Growers is offering a pair of promising promotions to help retailers sell apples and pears during the winter selling season.

Shopper, an iPhone Shopping Assistant from New York-based ReachEverywhere, now offers weekly flyers from more than 100 retailers, including Target, Best Buy, Kmart, Sears, Meijer, Walgreens, Lowes and Home Depot, enabling users to find deals on products without having to flip through printed circulars.

What a difference a year makes. Restaurant operators enjoyed a solid 2008, but by mid-year 2009, more than 4,000 had closed and the average guest check plunged more than 8 percent.

D’Agostino Supermarkets plans to install new coupon-printing kiosks at its 18 supermarkets in New York City and its suburbs.

Ruddick Corp., the Charlotte, N.C.-based parent company of grocer Harris Teeter, reported an increase in consolidated sales for fiscal 2009 of 2.1 percent to $4.08 billion, from $3.99 billion in fiscal 2008, and a rise in consolidated sales for the fourth quarter ended Sept. 27, 2009, of 2.1 percent to $1.05 billion, from $1.03 billion last year.

Weis Markets’ month-long “Fight Hunger” food drive generated $210,000 in customer food and monetary donations to local food banks and pantries throughout its five-state marketing area, which will be complemented by $200,000 in corporate donations to eight regional food banks.

United Supermarkets’ Market Street banner has launched a new holiday promotion that offers shoppers a free Traditions brand turkey with a $100 purchase now through Nov. 25.