Equipment & Design

QUINCY, Mass. and LANDOVER, Md. -- Expanding their ongoing "Low Prices Every Day" program, Ahold USA chains The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. and Giant Food, LLC have cut prices on salad dressings, condiments and other flavor enhancers.

QUINCY, Mass. and LANDOVER, Md. -- Expanding their ongoing "Low Prices Every Day" program, Ahold USA chains The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. and Giant Food, LLC have cut prices on salad dressings, condiments and other flavor enhancers.

YONKERS, N.Y. -- Women who use coupons and store loyalty cards save over 10 percent a year on groceries, or the equivalent of $678 a year, according to the results of a new consumer poll conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, and published in the March 2008 issue of ShopSmart magazine.

NATICK, Mass. -- Food sales were a key element in the sales growth BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. here reported yesterday. Total sales for January 2008 increased 11.2 percent to $652.0 million at the retailer, from $586.3 million in the year-ago period. Comparable-club January sales rose 7.8 percent, including a contribution from sales of gasoline of 2.6 percent and a negative impact from the absence of pharmacy sales of 0.3 percent. For January 2007, BJ's posted a comparable-club sales increase of 3.5 percent, including a contribution from gas sales of 0.3 percent.

NATICK, Mass. -- Due in major part to strongly performing food categories, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. Friday posted a December a sales increase of 6.2 percent, to $1.032 billion, from $971.8 million in the year-ago period.

NATICK, Mass. -- Due in major part to strongly performing food categories, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. Friday posted a December a sales increase of 6.2 percent, to $1.032 billion, from $971.8 million in the year-ago period.

NATICK, Mass. -- Due in major part to strongly performing food categories, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. Friday posted a December a sales increase of 6.2 percent, to $1.032 billion, from $971.8 million in the year-ago period.

MINNEAPOLIS -- More than 197 billion pages containing 257 billion consumer offers were delivered through Free Standing Insert (FSI) coupons in Sunday newspapers during 2007, according to the Marx Promotion Intelligence 2007 FSI Distribution Trends Report, released yesterday by Marx Promotion Intelligence here. These FSI coupons represented more than $320 billion in consumer incentives.