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The Virginia-based grocer offers fuel and pharmacy "bucks" to customers who purchase Food City private label and exclusive brands.

The grocer's 'Food for Friends' program, which involves the sale of paper turkeys at the checkout, began last week and will run through December 4.

Save Mart Supermarkets is rewarding three employees with 2009 Dodge Challenger Hemi-powered muscle cars for their excellence in customer service, with the first car presented this morning in Sparks, Nev.

General Mills, Inc. has launched a three-year grassroots effort to encourage Hispanic families to eat healthier as part of their daily routine.

Publix Super Markets is honoring the heritage of its many Caribbean national customers in South Florida by celebrating the Independence Days of the Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.

Schnuck Markets, Inc. invited shoppers to participate in Frieda's Produce University on Nov. 15., to give them hands-on education about non-traditional fresh fruits and vegetables for fall, as well as unusual gourmet items.

Sales at HEB stores in Texas are good, but not for upscale categories that the chain had been having success with in the recent past, said HEB’s corporate dietitian Rosalinda Benner, speaking to food writers attending the annual conference of the Association of Food Journalists that.

Klein's Family Markets said yesterday that it would be joining the Wakefern Food Corp. retail cooperative, with its seven stores taking the ShopRite banner, for which Wakefern serves as the marketing and advertising arm.