Market Trends

Where you live apparently has a great deal to do with whether you support a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.

Regional independent WinCo Foods is gearing up to enter the Phoenix marketplace.

Former Pathmark Stores, Inc. CEO Eileen Scott has joined New York-based customer experience management solutions provider ICC/Decision Services as COO, reporting to CEO and president David Rich.

Buehler Food Markets Inc. has become the first — and only — Ohio-based supermarket chain to join an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program that enlists food retailers in the fight against ozone-layer depletion and climate change.

Food Circus Super Markets, Inc., t/a Super Foodtown, has named Louis J. Scaduto Jr. president, replacing the late Joe Azzolina Sr. In addition to being president of the company, Azzolina was a retired naval captain and a New Jersey state senator and legislator for 24 years.

Thanks in no small part to its supermarket subsidiary, Harris Teeter, Ruddick Corp. posted a consolidated sales increase of 6.1 percent to $1.07 billion, from $1.01 billion in the year-ago period, for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 ended March 28, 2010.

Former “Sopranos” star and longtime film actor Joe Pantoliano is kicking off his awareness campaign of such often isolating mental illnesses as anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression and bipolar disorder with a fundraiser today at The Food Emporium’s flagship Bridgemarket Store in New York.

To enable easier snacking, Gaea Products S.A. had the bright idea to free olives from their traditional packaging in glass jars and aluminum canisters.