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  • Jewel-Osco Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

    Supervalu’s Chicago-based Jewel-Osco subsidiary will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) with “Sabor de la Herencia Hispana” (Taste of Hispanic Heritage), a month-long celebration of culinary events featuring Latino vendor products and authentic Latin American recipes.
  • Economic Woes Spur Coupon Use

    In the year since the financial crisis first began to take a bite out of consumers’ budgets, coupon use has risen, according to the PMA Coupon Council. Marketers made substantially more coupons available to drive consumer purchases, and shoppers responded by upping their coupon use by about 20 percent during the first half of 2009.
  • Bulk Food Sales Are Up

    A recent poll of grocers showed that bulk food sales are up an average of 10 percent at food retailer of all sizes, driven by consumer demand, according to the Little Rock, Ark.-based Bulk Is Green Council.
  • Fresh Seafood Trends:MSC Ecolabel Evolves

    In a bid to make it easier for eco-conscious consumers to choose seafood from sustainably harvested, well-managed fisheries, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has overhauled its ecolabel, which now prominently features the words “Certified Sustainable Seafood.”
  • What's Your Emergen-C?

    Three shot products are the latest additions to the Emergen-C® brand: the original Emergen-C Health & Energy Booster, Emergen-C Immune+™ System Booster, and Emergen-C Alert!™ Energy & Focus Booster.
  • Most Likely U.S. Voters Want Stronger Food Safety Rules: Poll

    A Pew-commissioned poll by the bipartisan team of Hart Research and Public Opinion Strategies has found that among likely voters surveyed across the United States, about nine in 10 are in favor of the federal government’s adoption of additional food safety measures, and 64 percent think that imported foods are often or sometimes unsafe.
  • FMI Applauds New FDA Reportable Food Registry Industry Portal

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a new way to head off potential cases of foodborne illness: the Reportable Food Registry (RFR), an electronic portal that food industry officials must now use to alert the agency when they find their products might sicken or kill people or animals. The requirement, a result of legislation, took effect with the launch of the portal.
  • How Visual Merchandising Can Help Boost Supermarket Spending

    Visual merchandising (VM) is an indispensable retail discipline, consisting of a series of practical selling tools that are used to influence what and how much consumers buy. Successful retailers -- supermarkets in particular -- can employ effective and integrated VM practices as part of the retail experience and overall brand delivery, to successfully maximize sales and profits in-store -- essentially, it’s a silent selling service of sales-driving levers and tools.
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