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Can 80-year-old Winn-Dixie be saved from itself? Industry watchers offer opinions.

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

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.

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.

Coinstar is thinking about ways to help retailers turn the front of the store from a no man's land into a gold mine.

CHICAGO -- The votes are in and counted, and IGA yesterday named the winners of its 2005 National Hometown Holidays Recipe Challenge. A panel of culinary chefs from the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago's Culinary Arts program chose the seven finalists' recipes, which were culled from more than 500 original submissions from shoppers to IGA stores across the United States during the annual marketing event, held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 13 last year.

GREENWICH, Conn. -- Pet product buyers and category managers have more opportunities than ever to grow the category in supermarkets, judging from the findings of a new study released by American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA).

CHICAGO -- The votes are in and counted, and IGA yesterday named the winners of its 2005 National Hometown Holidays Recipe Challenge. A panel of culinary chefs from the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago's Culinary Arts program chose the seven finalists' recipes, which were culled from more than 500 original submissions from shoppers to IGA stores across the United States during the annual marketing event, held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 13 last year.