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  • COVER STORY: Health and Wellness: Get fit
    Some supermarket operators are gaining the expertise needed to make their stores more health-minded destinations -- but there's no miracle diet plan.

  • GROCERY: Pasta: Al dente
    Pasta's rebound from its Atkins-era slump makes the category just right for full-meal merchandising.

  • Japanese C-retailer to Eyes U.S. Market Expansion
    TORRANCE, Calif. -- First the British, via Tesco, and now the Japanese; actually the Japanese were here first. Famima Corp., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based convenience store chain FamilyMart Co., Ltd., said yesterday it would launch the third of 20-plus high-end specialty stores in the Los Angeles area in 2006, as part of a planned major U.S. rollout.

  • Campbell to Slash Sodium in Top-Selling Soups
    CAMDEN, N.J. -- Campbell Soup Co., the world's largest soup company here, yesterday unveiled a major initiative to cut sodium in its soups and beverages. The company will offer new versions of its top-selling soups and reformulate some of its existing soups and beverages with less sodium.

  • FDA Gives Guidance on 'Whole Grain' for Manufacturers
    WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued draft guidance on what the term "whole grain" may include. The guidance will assist manufacturers with what the FDA considers appropriate for food label statements related to "whole grain" content, while also providing consumers a consistent definition.

  • Louisiana's Leading Indie Plans Store No. 16
    THIBODAUX, La. -- Rouses, the largest independent supermarket chain in Louisiana, has broken ground on a new store in Slidell, which is a New Orleans suburb in St. Tammany Parish.

  • Giant Food Stores Launches 'Guaranteed Value' Line, 'Neighborhood Drugstore' Concept
    CARLISLE, Pa. -- With one-stop shopping quickly becoming a growing trend, Giant Food Stores here and its Williamsville, N.Y.-based Tops Markets sister division are embarking on two new ways to add even greater value for customers: a new "Guaranteed Value" grocery and household product line and a new "Your Neighborhood Drugstore," concept for its heath and beauty care and sundries categories.

  • GROCERY: Baked Goods: New math
    Cookies - trans fats + whole grains = $$
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