Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

NEWARK, Del. -- An industry-wide initiative to create product identification standards for the global floral supply chain is being led by key trade associations, including the Produce Marketing Association, based here. The partners are urging floral industry growers, importers, wholesalers, supermarkets, mass markets, and transporters to collaborate on June 5-6, 2007 in Miami.

NEWARK, Del. -- An industry-wide initiative to create product identification standards for the global floral supply chain is being led by key trade associations, including the Produce Marketing Association, based here. The partners are urging floral industry growers, importers, wholesalers, supermarkets, mass markets, and transporters to collaborate on June 5-6, 2007 in Miami.

These grocers are among the ones that just get it -- and they're helping pull the industry into retail technology's new age.

According to the experts at Retail Forward, grocers and their suppliers need to break down the barriers built up between center store categories to revitalize the business.

Trends in demand for corn mean retailers and consumers will have to get used to a new era of higher prices for poultry and other meats.

Trends in demand for corn mean retailers and consumers will have to get used to a new era of higher prices for poultry and other meats.

According to the experts at Retail Forward, grocers and their suppliers need to break down the barriers built up between center store categories to revitalize the business.

These grocers are among the ones that just get it -- and they're helping pull the industry into retail technology's new age.