Nonfoods

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -Nielsen here yesterday launched a tool for manufacturers and retailers to use together to measure how certain product categories bring shoppers into stores.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Consumer packaged goods manufacturers' best opportunities to boost holiday sales in 2007 lie with seasonal flavors/packaging and convenience foods, according to new research conducted for the Grocery Manufacturers Association by Ernst & Young LLP and The NPD Group.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. here opened a newly remodeled Fresh Waldbaum's store in West Hartford, Conn. Friday with a larger kosher offering.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. here opened a newly remodeled Fresh Waldbaum's store in West Hartford, Conn. Friday with a larger kosher offering.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. here opened a newly remodeled Fresh Waldbaum's store in West Hartford, Conn. Friday with a larger kosher offering.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. here said yesterday it had purchased Best Cellars, a New York-based retailer known for merchandising reasonably priced wines by flavor instead of by origin, and has also hired the specialty wine shop's founder to head up a revamped alcoholic beverage concept.

ST. LOUIS - In a bid to make it considerably easier for customers to enjoy authentic home-cooked meals at home, Schnuck Markets, Inc. here is rolling out two new culinary make-and-take meal prep concepts -- "Meal Creations" and "Schnucks Cooks" -- that offer a dash of food and cooking instruction, along with a large measure of convenience.

ST. LOUIS - In a bid to make it considerably easier for customers to enjoy authentic home-cooked meals at home, Schnuck Markets, Inc. here is rolling out two new culinary make-and-take meal prep concepts -- "Meal Creations" and "Schnucks Cooks" -- that offer a dash of food and cooking instruction, along with a large measure of convenience.