Trading Partners

The latest ACNielsen study on trade promotion practices shows both retailers and manufacturers increasingly unhappy with spending and results.

A study says most power toothbrushes are no better than manual ones. Manufacturers disagree and, if sales are any indication, so do consumers.

It's not a Y2K-level headache, but the move to a larger scanning code will demand major hardware and software upgrades over the next two years.

The industry is sounding off about upcoming country-of-origin labeling regulations, but there appears to be little chance of easing the burdens they will bring.

Retailers can't do anything to keep E. coli out of a batch of frozen hamburgers. But there's plenty they should be doing to make their perishables departments safer for valued shoppers.

Alcoholic beverages can be a supermarket cash cow -- if they are merchandised correctly.

LONDON - U.S. regulators are examining whether some of the supplier rebates booked by the U.S. Foodservice unit of Dutch retailer Ahold NV were deliberately inflated, people familiar with the situation told The Wall StreetJournal.

WASHINGTON - The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has filed comments estimating that the record-keeping costs to implement the country-of-origin labeling law will be substantially more than the $2 billion estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).