SEATTLE - Albertsons introduced its Preferred Savings Card at stores in Seattle last week, making it the last of the three dominant grocery chains in the area to roll out customer-loyalty cards, The Seattle Times reports.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Winn-Dixie is launching a new Baby Rewards Club that offers discounts on merchandise, entries into sweepstakes, and other special offers and incentives.
NEW YORK - More than 130,000 visitors from across the globe embarked upon Paris last week to attend SIAL 2002, a biennial trade show for food industry executives.
Despite the myriad challenges of last year, supermarket sales rose 3.5 percent from 2000, when the economy was in decidedly better shape. All departments shared in the advance.
Supermarket operators beware! Dollar stores are selling more food, listing more items at above a buck, and proliferating at the rate of more than 1,000 a year.
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration ruled Tuesday that water laced with nicotine is illegal, ending a California company's bid to begin selling bottles later this month, The Associated Press reports.
