Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Wegmans has now been pulled into the web of the notorious Menu Foods pet food recall. The pet supplier has now added to its long list of recalled items some products that don't contain wheat gluten contaminated with melamine, but may have come in contact with it, including all code dates of Wegmans Beef and Gravy Cat Food.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Wegmans has now been pulled into the web of the notorious Menu Foods pet food recall. The pet supplier has now added to its long list of recalled items some products that don't contain wheat gluten contaminated with melamine, but may have come in contact with it, including all code dates of Wegmans Beef and Gravy Cat Food.

NEW YORK -- The Nielsen Company here and the In-Store Marketing Institute said yesterday that they have entered the national expansion phase of their combined effort to measure the size and composition of the audiences for in-store marketing media. The initiative is called P.R.I.S.M., or Pioneering Research for an In-Store Metric.

NEW YORK -- The Nielsen Company here and the In-Store Marketing Institute said yesterday that they have entered the national expansion phase of their combined effort to measure the size and composition of the audiences for in-store marketing media. The initiative is called P.R.I.S.M., or Pioneering Research for an In-Store Metric.

PLANO, Texas -- StoreNext and MTXEPS have teamed up to give independent grocers are way to better defend themselves and their profits against the spiraling costs to retail from electronic payments.

PLANO, Texas -- StoreNext and MTXEPS have teamed up to give independent grocers are way to better defend themselves and their profits against the spiraling costs to retail from electronic payments.

IRVING, Texas -- Two Supervalu supplied grocery stores -- Handy Foods in Ottawa, Ill., and Newton IGA in Newton, Ill. -- selected Excentus Corp., a fuel site marketing supplier, to facilitate a cross marketing program with Marathon Oil stations that offers consumers discounts at nearby gas stations for purchasing certain products at the grocery store.

QUINCY, Mass. -- The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. here said last week it would introduce ground beef in "Smart Seal" Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) to 325 of its stores May 11, with a companywide roll out to be completed by mid-July.