Nonfoods

As awareness of their nutritional benefits grows, popular, profitable berries can be expected to stay top-of-mind in the produce department.

New products, packaging, promotions, the organic movement, and the Internet are keeping children's cereals from getting soggy.

Innovative promotions and merchandising ideas can help grocers teach shoppers to look to the supermarket first for new movies and old favorites.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- A&P has officially put its venerable Eight O' Clock coffee business on the block, in an effort to raise needed cash to pay down its $1 billion debt load, according to an article in today's Star-Ledger newspaper.

Complying with the looming country-of-origin labeling regulations will require careful attention and serious effort from retailers.

CINCANNATI - The Kroger Co. will begin adding the words "color added" to the labels of all farm-raised fish from the Salmonid family, including salmon and trout, later this week.

CINCINNATI - The Kroger Co., known for its efforts in merchandising organics, on Monday announced the official national launch of Naturally Preferred, its own brand of premium-quality natural and organic products now available to all of the company's nearly 2,500 stores.

SINGAPORE - A SARS outbreak caused the closing of Singapore's largest wholesale vegetable market this week, and a quarantine of all of its 2,400 workers.