Nonfoods

MINNEAPOLIS -- A Market Street unit operated by Lubbock, Texas-based regional grocer United Supermarkets took the grand prize in the 2007 Go Organic! for Earth Day Display Contest, the campaign's organizers here said yesterday.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. here donated some 1,500 books through its NFC Foundation as part of the first "Lift Up America" event at a Major League Baseball game.

LONDON -- A Tesco executive recently sat down with a number of British publications to reveal more information about the company¿s Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets venture, reported Convenience Store News. Among the information revealed were plans to open one Fresh & Easy store every two and a half days -- about three per week.

NEWARK, Del. -- Shoppers generally give their local supermarkets' produce departments good ratings for their service, although new consumer research from the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) here suggests there's opportunity to improve, and points to where some of those opportunities may lie.

MINNEAPOLIS -- A Market Street unit operated by Lubbock, Texas-based regional grocer United Supermarkets took the grand prize in the 2007 Go Organic! for Earth Day Display Contest, the campaign's organizers here said yesterday.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. here donated some 1,500 books through its NFC Foundation as part of the first "Lift Up America" event at a Major League Baseball game.

LONDON -- A Tesco executive recently sat down with a number of British publications to reveal more information about the company¿s Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets venture, reported Convenience Store News. Among the information revealed were plans to open one Fresh & Easy store every two and a half days -- about three per week.

NEWARK, Del. -- Shoppers generally give their local supermarkets' produce departments good ratings for their service, although new consumer research from the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) here suggests there's opportunity to improve, and points to where some of those opportunities may lie.