Deli / Prepared Foods

Early results of studies conducted by comScore, Inc., in partnership with Cincinnati-based dunnhumbyUSA, on the effectiveness of online advertising in building retail sales of consumer packaged goods brands show that the Internet can be as effective an advertising medium as TV advertising.

Redner’s Warehouse Markets is asking its customers to fight hunger in a big way by donating something small -- namely, $1. The Reading, Pa.-based grocer and Quick Shoppes subsidiary will serve as collection sites from Aug. 30 to Oct. 3 during its Bag Hunger campaign, which coincides with Feeding America’s commemoration of September as Hunger Action Month.

Missy Chase Lapine, author of the bestseller “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals,” is showing parents how to make kids’ preferred culinary indulgences with secret nutritious ingredients available for less at BJ’s Wholesale Clubs.

While students will soon don their backpacks, a majority will forgo a lunch box this year, according to new findings from The NPD Group.

Chia may be best known for growing comical pet-shaped plants, but the nutritious seed, which boasts five times the amount of calcium in milk and more omega-3 than salmon, in addition to being rich in antioxidants, protein, fiber and minerals, is also a bona fide superfood.

Colin Watts, chief innovation officer at Walgreens Corp., will be jury chair for the second annual Product of the Year USA Awards. On Product of the Year Jury Day (Sept. 30) at New York’s Gansevoort Hotel, Watts and the jury panel, consisting of industry leaders, influencers, and key stakeholders, will preview new consumer packaged goods in competition for the 2010 Product of the Year imprimatur from 100,000 American shoppers who will ultimately choose the winning products.

Aging boomers and diverse Gen Yers are finding new ways to fulfill their comfort food cravings, according to the Generational Comfort Food Culinary Trend Mapping Report co-published by the Center for Culinary Development (CCD) and Packaged Facts.

While in the midst of a nationwide debate over health care, Americans are giving a clear indication that one tool they can use to improve their health is food.