Frozen Foods

The Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE) has new leadership, effective tomorrow.

When grocery shopping, consumers will find it hard to miss “Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!” The Emmy-Award winning animated kids series has signed cross-promotional deals with Minute Rice, On-Cor Frozen Foods, The Joy Cone Co., Darling Clementines and Jolly Time Pop Corn.

Over the latest six (4-week) periods ending 5/16/2009, store brand unit sales averaged a 5.7% increase in consumer-packaged-goods departments tracked by Nielsen in food, drug and mass-merchandisers (including Walmart).

Giant Eagle is lowering prices on popular fresh chicken and ground beef products by an average of 17 percent, which the regional retailer says will deliver customers approximately $20 million in annualized savings.

Weeks after their contract expired, thousands of unionized King Soopers grocery workers in Colorado this week are voting on a new five-year labor deal.

Deciphering nutritional labels today requires the kind of brainpower I used to reserve for the daily Sudoku.

A certain amount of trade-off is expected when we make healthier food choices. A low-fat cereal bar is not the same as a double fudge brownie — no matter how you slice it. But if you are going to sit down to that cereal bar instead of the brownie, you want it to be the best-tasting cereal bar around, right?

Starting today, customers at participating A&P supermarkets in New York and New Jersey will be able to enjoy a sweet treat while they shop -- Le Mars, Iowa-based Blue Bunny is providing free samples of the new Sedona Sandwich, along with coupons for the new product. The giveaway runs until July 25.