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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer Inc. here will introduce its own line of store-brand organic foods across all of its 176 stores beginning Sunday. The chain said the new Meijer Organics line will comprise more than 200 certified USDA organic products by year's end, ranging from extra-virgin olive oil and Mediterranean thin-crust pizza, to tea and vegetables.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer Inc. here will introduce its own line of store-brand organic foods across all of its 176 stores beginning Sunday. The chain said the new Meijer Organics line will comprise more than 200 certified USDA organic products by year's end, ranging from extra-virgin olive oil and Mediterranean thin-crust pizza, to tea and vegetables.

HARLEYSVILLE, Pa. -- Retail sales within the U.S. consumer packaged goods health and wellness industry reached $91 billion in 2006 - a jump of 15 percent over 2005, according to a study released last week by market research firm The Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) here.

LANDOVER, Md. and QUINCY, Mass. -- Giant Food, LLC and the Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. rolled out lower prices on bleach, laundry detergent, fabric softeners and other cleaning supplies Friday, in the latest phase of the Ahold-owned banners' Value Improvement Program (VIP).

LANDOVER, Md. and QUINCY, Mass. -- Giant Food, LLC and the Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. rolled out lower prices on bleach, laundry detergent, fabric softeners and other cleaning supplies Friday, in the latest phase of the Ahold-owned banners' Value Improvement Program (VIP).

HARLEYSVILLE, Pa. -- Retail sales within the U.S. consumer packaged goods health and wellness industry reached $91 billion in 2006 - a jump of 15 percent over 2005, according to a study released last week by market research firm The Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) here.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Pick 'n Save store manager Jim Gauden presided over a delivery of 6,863 pounds of food to a local food shelter, courtesy of the Roundy's Foundation based here. The donation made to the Portage, Wis. Food Pantry was valued at $10,148 and included tuna, cereal, peanut butter, various lunch meats and pasta, fruit cocktail, soup, beef stew, and pancake and waffle mix.

TORONTO -- Loblaws' Natural Value departments will launch a program next month featuring one-pound packages of core organics items such as raisins, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, and an assorted dried-fruit-and-nut mix, marketed under the Glengrove Organics brand