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  • Trader Joe's No Longer Using Weyerhaeuser Bags

    MONROVIA, Calif. - Trader Joe's, based here, has decided to stop buying grocery bags from Federal Way, Wash.-based Weyerhaeuser, a company that the environmental advocacy group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) calls "the No. 1 destroyer of old-growth forests in North America."

  • Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board Readies Fall Promotions

    MADISON, Wis. ¿ The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, based here, is looking to boost cheese consumption and sales this fall with a pair of heavily marketed promotions.

  • Wild Oats Continues Expansion of Henry's Farmers Markets

    BOULDER, Colo. -- Henry's Farmers Markets, a fresh foods grocery store chain owned by Wild Oats, will open its 24th store in Corona, Calif. Aug. 25 as part of an aggressive expansion schedule in the Southwest that includes five new stores this year and an additional 10 by the end of 2005.

  • Food Contributes to 2Q Sales Surge for BJ's Wholesale Club

    NATICK, Mass. - Double digits gains in food sales were partly responsible for a 25 percent jump in net income for BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., in its second quarter ended July 31.

  • FMI Survey: Shoplifting, Employee Theft, Check Fraud Top Retail Loss Lists

    WASHINGTON - Food retailers and wholesalers report that shoplifting, employee theft, and check fraud remain the greatest sources of annual losses, according to a report released today by the Food Marketing Institute.

  • Chanatry's to Expand Meat Department

    UTICA, N.Y. - Chanatry's French Road Market here, a feisty one-unit independent that has been profiled as a Progressive Grocer Store of the Month three times, is on the move again, this time expanding and remodeling its meat department.

  • Retailers Clean up After Hurricane; Citrus Crop May Be Devastated

    LAKELAND, Fla. ¿ Some sense of normalcy is slowly returning for Florida's food retailers and manufacturers as the state continues to clean up after Hurricane Charley. Retailers reported most of their stores were up and running. The state's citrus crop may have been decimated by the storm.

  • Schnucks Herds Bison Into St. Louis Area

    ST. LOUIS - As Schnuck Markets, Inc. continues seeking out ways to expand its variety and value-added customer services, the family-held chain is bringing a dozen cuts of bison (or buffalo) meat to St. Louis-area customers.

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