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  • Supervalu Opens First Sunflower Market In Indy
    INDIANAPOLIS -- Aiming to take a bite out of the growing market for organic foods, Supervalu cut the ribbon on its first Sunflower Market here. The 12,000-square-foot, value-priced natural and organic foods retail outlet carries 8,000 to 12,000 SKUs, and will serve as the prototype for a Supervalu expansion plan that includes opening 50 Sunflower Market stores in five years.

  • Commissaries to Debut Health-oriented Shelf Signs
    FORT LEE, Va. -- The Defense Commissary Agency here is introducing a series of shelf signs featuring dietary tips, in time to meet shoppers New Year's resolutions to lose weight and eat healthier.

  • COVER STORY: Know your enemy
    Some are painfully obvious, others will blindside you. But nontraditional competition means much more than Wal-Mart, and each grocer must decide which suspects most bear watching.

  • Spartan Stores to Purchase D&W Food Centers
    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Let the 2006 mergers begin. Spartan Stores, Inc. here said it plans to acquire D&W Food Centers, Inc., also based here, in a deal that could add $200 million a year to Spartan's sales revenue.

  • Acculturated Hispanics Eat More Like Other Americans: Study
    PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Note to grocers courting Hispanics: Try to gauge how long your target market's been absorbing American culture. As they acculturate, Hispanics living in the United States develop progressively more Americanized eating habits, a study by the NPD Group here found.

  • Promotion Allowance Levels at 10-year High: Promodata Study
    CHICAGO -- A study conducted by research firm Promodata's Price-Trak Group projects a decade-high average promotion allowance of 15 percent by year's end. This high allowance level is being driven by consistent increases across all major product groups, with the exception of refrigerated foods, which peaked in 2002/03, according to the group.

  • Price Chopper Plans Grand Opening of New $16M Frozen Food DC Next Week
    SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Price Chopper here will hold a grand opening ceremony Dec. 15 at 10:30 a.m. of its 160,000-square-foot frozen food distribution center, the largest in the capital district, in the Rotterdam Industrial Park. Last January the Northeast regional grocer revealed plans to construct the $16 million facility.

  • Food Lion to Unveil Redesigned Prototype
    SALISBURY, N.C. -- Delhaize USA unit Food Lion here will unveil a new store design in its home state next week, featuring a more shopper-friendly layout and a standalone organic and natural foods section grouped with wines.
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