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SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion here is up and running with the One Network Retail grid, joining other top retailers from around the nation including Kroger, Safeway, Publix and Hannaford.

WASHINGTON -- The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) yesterday endorsed legislation that will increase charitable donations to such hunger relief organizations as America's Second Harvest.

NEW YORK -- Online food retailer FreshDirect tapped Creekstone Farms as the exclusive supplier of its 100 percent source-verified, Black Angus beef.

DALLAS -- Despite the threat of Hurricane Rita bearing down on the Gulf Coast of Texas, more than 320 retailers, suppliers, and other retail industry participants met here on Sept. 26 and 27 to discuss how to increase their business with the growing U.S. Hispanic market, at the inaugural Hispanic Retail 360 Conference. As it turned out, the hurricane veered east and missed Dallas, where the weather was sunny and hot throughout the two-day event.

NAPLES, Fla. -- The submission deadline for GEM Award -- which will be presented by Retail Systems Consulting at its conference this month -- is October 5.

CHESHIRE, Conn. -- Wholesale distributor Bozzuto's, Inc., based here, said Friday Donna Maglio and Sharon Delaney had been promoted to the positions of v.p., supply chain and director of procurement, respectively, while Gary Spinozze has joined the company in the newly created role of director of corporate programs and trade relations.

Imported specialty foods will become less and less 'special' in a multicultural market -- but they'd better be the real thing.

Volatile prices made grilling season hot for some, not for others. What's next?