Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. -- John Cirelli, the founder and chairman of Cirelli Foods, New England's largest family-owned broadline foodservice distributor, died Oct. 23 at the age of 94. He was a resident of South Yarmouth, Mass.

LANDOVER, Md. and QUINCY, Mass. -- Giant Food, LLC and the Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. said yesterday that as part of the Ahold banners' ongoing Value Improvement Program (VIP), they would lower everyday prices on thousands of dairy, frozen and coffee products. The price reductions, which will affect all Giant-Landover and Stop & Shop stores, will be implemented next month.

DALLAS -- Software firm Retalix here is joining forces with KSS Retail and Willard Bishop, LLC to offer grocers a "holistic" price management offering, which includes the creation of an overall pricing strategy, the execution and analysis of price management, and a science-based price optimization system.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday approved its version of the Farm Bill that included funding and direction for key organic priorities, signaling welcome news for the Greenfield, Mass.-based Organic Trade Association.

WASHINGTON -- The Food Marketing Institute (FMI), NACDS, and the National Retail Federation expressed their support yesterday as the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security for spotlighted the national problem of organized retail crime at a hearing. The trade groups are pushing for a law to make it a federal felony for all of the members of the gangs involved..

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Big Y Foods, Inc. here has appointed John W. Jendza director of store design and purchasing, James Kacmarcik, director of risk management, and Casimir M. Tryba director of food safety.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Big Y Foods, Inc. here has appointed John W. Jendza director of store design and purchasing, James Kacmarcik, director of risk management, and Casimir M. Tryba director of food safety.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Big Y Foods, Inc. here has appointed John W. Jendza director of store design and purchasing, James Kacmarcik, director of risk management, and Casimir M. Tryba director of food safety.