Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

ARLINGTON, Va. - In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on the proposed Food and Drug Import Safety Act, the Food Marketing Institute recommended aggressive measures by industry and government alike to bolster the U.S. food safety system and reassure consumers that the system is safe.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) is going green. The trade group yesterday introduced a comprehensive compendium of strategic resources, consumer research, and educational events to help the industry implement sustainability programs.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Tesco's Fresh & Easy U.S. division yesterday identified 48 locations where it will build stores in the Inland Empire are of California, and added that it will begin in November to open stores in Southern California, Phoenix, and Las Vegas.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) is going green. The trade group yesterday introduced a comprehensive compendium of strategic resources, consumer research, and educational events to help the industry implement sustainability programs.

CHICAGO -- IGA, the world's largest voluntary supermarket network, is revving up its marketing plans with a new staffer -- Debra S. Bounds, who has been named IGA marketing specialist.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) here said yesterday it would appeal to its member co-ops' suppliers and vendors across the country to help raise funds for family farmers in the upper Midwest affected by record-breaking floods that inundated the area last month.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- An Iowa family filed a lawsuit against Supervalu Inc. and a food manufacturer here seeking damages over a snake head the family claimed to have found in a can of green beans they said they bought in a Cub Foods store.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Food producers operating under the expanding Kentucky Proud banner will be exhibiting, offering samples, and booking sales orders with the state¿s retailers during the first Kentucky Proud Expo set for Oct. 18-20, at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington.