Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

SALISBURY, N.C. -- From Aug. 6 through Sept. 2, Food Lion shoppers will have the opportunity to help local school kids by participating in the "Back Pack & Give Back" campaign.

SALISBURY, N.C. -- From Aug. 6 through Sept. 2, Food Lion shoppers will have the opportunity to help local school kids by participating in the "Back Pack & Give Back" campaign.

JAMAICA, N.Y. -- Mountainside Farms here, an affiliate of Elmhurst Dairy, Inc., New York City's biggest milk supplier, is now offering Mountainside Farms UltraPure milk in Whole, 2% Reduced Fat, 1% Lowfat, and Fat Free varieties at select grocery stores such as Gristede's, Food Emporium, A&P, Foodtown, D'Agostino, and Associated Supermarkets in New York and New Jersey.

BOSTON -- Massachusetts legislators recently voted overwhelmingly to increase funding to purchase food for emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters throughout the Commonwealth. The Massachusetts Emergency Assistance Food Program will receive a boost in FY2007 from $6.5 to $12 million for the purchase of food to help feed the 464,000 people being served annually by hunger-relief agencies.

LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Eighteen months after it began carrying certified humane products, 20-store D'Agostino Supermarkets here has added five cheeses from Thorp, Wis.-based Grass Point Farms, the first national producer of certified humane pasture-based dairy products.

LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Eighteen months after it began carrying certified humane products, 20-store D'Agostino Supermarkets here has added five cheeses from Thorp, Wis.-based Grass Point Farms, the first national producer of certified humane pasture-based dairy products.

LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Eighteen months after it began carrying certified humane products, 20-store D'Agostino Supermarkets here has added five cheeses from Thorp, Wis.-based Grass Point Farms, the first national producer of certified humane pasture-based dairy products.

JAMAICA, N.Y. -- Mountainside Farms here, an affiliate of Elmhurst Dairy, Inc., New York City's biggest milk supplier, is now offering Mountainside Farms UltraPure milk in Whole, 2% Reduced Fat, 1% Lowfat, and Fat Free varieties at select grocery stores such as Gristede's, Food Emporium, A&P, Foodtown, D'Agostino, and Associated Supermarkets in New York and New Jersey.