Market Trends

Participating stores now have scores for more than half of their products.

The ‘Food Finder’ enables shoppers to search the Guiding Stars database.

The meat case is busier than ever due to quality-minded shoppers wanting to serve their families the best. Fostering this demand are the many grocers nationwide that offer premium Certified Angus Beef (CAB), which recently honored its retail sales and marketing leaders at its annual conference in Puerto Rico.

Anyone seeking to learn more about how leading trading partners are driving stronger deli sales by tapping consumer insights, as well as the latest trends and merchandising implications for supermarkets’ all-important fresh meat departments, will certainly want to tune-in for two free informative, interactive webcasts we at PG will be hosting in the coming days and week ahead.

24-year veteran promoted to group VP spot
 

Funds will go a long way toward assuring the safety of seafood harvested in Florida waters.

Cathy Green, president of Food Lion, will chair a new 35-member Leadership Council of the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) and four new working groups have been named to lead the initiative.

Right on time for National Seafood Month, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has launched its new consumer website --www.wildalaskaflavor.com-- which gives seafood lovers a behind-the-scenes peek into the lives of the men and women who harvest wild Alaska seafood.