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  • Giant Food to Sell or Close Some Manufacturing and Distribution Operations

    LANDOVER, Md. -- The management of Stop & Shop and Giant Food have announced several major changes that will take place at Giant for the remainder of 2005 and 2006, including selling Giant's headquarters here, and selling or closing several manufacturing operations and distribution centers, which will impact about 500 jobs.
  • Winners of Neighborhood Partnership Awards Revealed at FMI Show

    CHICAGO -- At the 2005 FMI Show here the Food Marketing Institute has awarded the 2005 Neighborhood Partnership Awards (NPA) to five companies: Food Lion, LLC of Salisbury, N.C.; C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. of Keene, N.H.; Ukrop's Super Markets, Inc. of Richmond, Va.; Wakefern Food Corp. of Edison, N.J.; and White Rose Food of Carteret, N.J. The annual awards, now in their ninth year, honor quality and distinction in supermarkets' community-based initiatives in the areas of youth development, hunger relief, health and wellness, and urban economic development.
  • Heinen's Supermarket Chain Scion Dies at 70

    SARASOTA, Fla. -- Joseph R. Heinen, who helped run the regional 15-store Heinen's Fine Foods supermarket chain begun by his father, died April 30 at his home here at the age of 70, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. He suffered from a chronic respiratory illness.
  • FMI Update: Ethnic Foods Offer 'Much Bigger' Opportunity for Retailers, Expert Says

    CHICAGO -- Food retailers have a "much, much bigger" opportunity to increase their share of the ethnic foods market, ethnic marketing expert Terry Soto told a crowd here at the Food Marketing Institute Show during a Close-Up Session called "What's New in Ethnic Trends."
  • INDEPENDENTS REPORT: Loss leader

    Shrink prevention requires policing, but the solutions must go much deeper into a grocer's operation and culture. Here's a procedural from an expert.
  • NONFOODS: That old familiar feeling

    Earth Fare is selling more personal care products to mainstream shoppers by raising their comfort level, then clinching the trade-up.
  • RETAIL MANAGEMENT: Eyes front

    Coinstar is thinking about ways to help retailers turn the front of the store from a no man's land into a gold mine.
  • FRESH FOOD: The news is out

    Food writers do a lot more than write recipes, and their coverage of local retailers can help stores get their own messages out to influential consumers.
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