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Hy-Vee Supermarkets has joined the Grocery Shopping Network (GSN), which has launched Hy-Vee’s new online service capabilities through its industry supermarket platform.

Visits to two authentic Latino supermarkets and two national retailers with Hispanic-focused stores will kick off this year’s Hispanic Retail 360 Summit, being held Aug. 9 to Aug. 11 in Las Vegas.

Fujitsu America yesterday unveiled its RetailReady program, which provides benefits for independent software vendors (ISVs) that validate their applications with retail hardware from Fujitsu.

Food companies have their work cut out for them in regaining consumer trust, a new IBM survey shows. According to the company’s new Food Consumer Survey, less than 20 percent of adult grocery shoppers trust food suppliers to develop and sell food products that are safe and healthy.

For the past several months, we’ve seen sales for U.S. store brands grow at unprecedented rates with annual sales of $85.5 billion, up by $13.6 billion (+19%) vs. just two years ago. (Nielsen Grocery/Drug/Mass including Walmart).

The Canadian government yesterday unveiled the new organic logo that it says will provide organics suppliers access to more markets and ensure families can find more certified-organic food products in grocery stores.

Organic fresh foods distributor Albert’s Organics will open its eighth distribution center in September.

The industry isn’t ready for the implementation of the GS1 DataBar on coupons, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) said this week after reviewing results from a survey on the issue conducted earlier this year.