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Some of the most successful items in the supermarket perimeter are giving consumers plenty of reasons to appreciate specialty perishables.

In the dog-eat-dog world of beer marketing, hometown regionals are brewing up a storm.

Retailers continue to prize efficiencies more than employees, and experts predict the payback will be a shortage of management talent in just a few years.

Grocers can boost year-round sales of school and office supplies simply by regaining focus on the category and using creative promotions.

WASHINGTON - The upscale Sutton Place gourmet food chain is close to being purchased by Fresh Fields founder Mark Ordan who plans to expand Sutton Place throughout the Northeast with an infusion of up to $50 million, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

INDIANAPOLIS - As The Kroger Co. and the union representing its Central Indiana butchers and clerks prepared to resume contract negotiations today, both sides made preparations for a strike, according to the Indianapolis Star newspaper.

AUSTIN, Texas - It's one-potato, two-potato at Whole Foods Market here, which is running a "Buy One, Give One" community giving program in conjunction with Alexia Foods, which markets a line of frozen mashed potatoes.

WASHINGTON - After presiding over numerous fact-finding discussions with more than 70 different trade and producer groups, the U.S. Agriculture Department yesterday issued its proposed rules for the congressionally mandated country-of-origin labeling (COOL) program that was required by the 2002 Farm Bill.