Market Trends

To help raise funds for Michigan’s upcoming Special Olympic Summer Games June 3 through June 5, Spartan Stores, through its D&W Fresh Markets, Family Fare Supermarkets, Felpausch Food Centers, Glen’s Markets and VG’s Food & Pharmacy locations, as well as other participating supplied stores, is offering Special Olympics fundraising medallions through May 22.

An outbreak of E. coli O145 that has sickened over 60 people in multiple states is linked to contaminated romaine lettuce from Sidney, Ohio-based Freshway.

Satisfaction with the top 100 e-retailers has made a spectacular recovery, rebounding from a dive this time last year to an all-time high score of 78 points out of 100, a five-point increase.

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. (A&P) yesterday reported sales of the 12-week fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended Feb. 27, 2010 of $2.0 billion, vs. $2.3 billion in the year-ago period.

In recognition of Mother’s Day, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is offering a range of events over the upcoming holiday weekend to enable kids to show their moms just how much they love them.

Despite an inhospitable economic environment and considerable price investments primarily at the Food Lion chain that contributed to a 0.4 percent decline in its U.S. revenues, Delhaize Group president and CEO Pierre-Olivier Beckers declared that the Brussels-based retail conglomerate was “pleased” with its first-quarter results.

Everybody, everywhere likes a good value, which is why store brands outperformed national brands in the United States on an average unit sales growth basis and has posted gradual gains over time in this country as well as in many European countries.

As part of a partnership with Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines, Tyson Rotisserie Chicken last month began offering in 4,000 supermarket