Market Trends

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - Karns Quality Foods based here is acquiring two Fox's Markets in Hershey and Middletown, Pa., putting to rest months of local trade speculation that such a deal was in the works.

BETHESDA, Md. -- Balducci's here is introducing an innovative menu to help the specialty food markets' shoppers celebrate the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

CARLISLE, Pa. -- Giant Food Stores, LLC here said yesterday it has promoted Jim Ware to the position of director of operations and merchandising.

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Community-based independent natural and organic food retailer My Organic Market (MOM's) here yesterday completed installation of 40 energy-saving reflective skylights in its new store in Columbia East, scheduled to open in early October.

NEW YORK -- Growth in gourmet and organic cookies, as well as laying on the chocolate, are two strategies that might save the faltering cookie market, which has dropped to $5.56 billion in 2005 from over $6 billion in 2001, as consumers increasingly worry about their waistlines and their medical profiles, according to "Cookies in the U.S.," a new report from Packaged Facts.

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - Karns Quality Foods based here is acquiring two Fox's Markets in Hershey and Middletown, Pa., putting to rest months of local trade speculation that such a deal was in the works.

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Upscale specialty grocer Fresh Market here plans to enter the Milwaukee market next summer, with a new a store in a shopping mall development called Brookfield Square, according to Chattanooga-based shopping center management firm CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Community-based independent natural and organic food retailer My Organic Market (MOM's) here yesterday completed installation of 40 energy-saving reflective skylights in its new store in Columbia East, scheduled to open in early October.