Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

CHICAGO -- At the 2005 FMI Show here the Food Marketing Institute has awarded the 2005 Neighborhood Partnership Awards (NPA) to five companies: Food Lion, LLC of Salisbury, N.C.; C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. of Keene, N.H.; Ukrop's Super Markets, Inc. of Richmond, Va.; Wakefern Food Corp. of Edison, N.J.; and White Rose Food of Carteret, N.J. The annual awards, now in their ninth year, honor quality and distinction in supermarkets' community-based initiatives in the areas of youth development, hunger relief, health and wellness, and urban economic development.

CHICAGO -- Food retailers have a "much, much bigger" opportunity to increase their share of the ethnic foods market, ethnic marketing expert Terry Soto told a crowd here at the Food Marketing Institute Show during a Close-Up Session called "What's New in Ethnic Trends."

Can 80-year-old Winn-Dixie be saved from itself? Industry watchers offer opinions.

Shrink prevention requires policing, but the solutions must go much deeper into a grocer's operation and culture. Here's a procedural from an expert.

Earth Fare is selling more personal care products to mainstream shoppers by raising their comfort level, then clinching the trade-up.

Coinstar is thinking about ways to help retailers turn the front of the store from a no man's land into a gold mine.

Food writers do a lot more than write recipes, and their coverage of local retailers can help stores get their own messages out to influential consumers.

LONDON -- Women are driving much of the growth in the U.S. beer market, thanks to their interest in low-carb and light beer products, according to new research by independent market analyst Datamonitor here.