Nonfoods

CHICAGO -- The Nielsen Company yesterday unveiled the Homescan Total ShopperView, a shopper panel specifically developed to capture non-bar-coded items such as meat, bakery, vegetables, coffee, film processing, and floral.

SAN DIEGO - UK retailer Tesco plans to open seven Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market stores in the San Diego area, and is securing additional locations to expand beyond that number in the market.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Big Y Foods, Inc. here named a new marketing head among several executive shifts yesterday.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Marsh Supermarkets here and its parent company, Florida-based Sun Capital Partners, pruned its McNamara Florist division for an undisclosed sum, leaving Toomie Farris as the principal shareholder of the 54-year-old florist, which is once again independently owned.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Marsh Supermarkets here and its parent company, Florida-based Sun Capital Partners, pruned its McNamara Florist division for an undisclosed sum, leaving Toomie Farris as the principal shareholder of the 54-year-old florist, which is once again independently owned.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. said this week that its Rehoboth Beach, Del. SuperFresh store has reopened after an extensive renovation that includes a full-service adjacent liquor store.

MILWAUKEE -- Eliminating outbreaks of foodborne illness is possible but it won't happen by increasing inspections alone, say food safety experts in the latest Quarterly Quality Report from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) based here. The answer, the report finds, is in prevention.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. said this week that its Rehoboth Beach, Del. SuperFresh store has reopened after an extensive renovation that includes a full-service adjacent liquor store.