Kroger Is Seen Getting Less Competition From Wal-Mart
Grocery-store chain Kroger's operating margin growth could benefit from a changing product mix and diminishing competition from Wal-Mart. …
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Retail In The Digital Age: Lowes Foods Hires Branding Expert For Makeover
Appealing to all the senses is a concept that Lowes Foods, a 99-location grocery chain across the Carolinas and Virginia, is embracing wholeheartedly. The company hired Martin Lindstrom and his team to give its traditional stores a makeover. …
KeHE Holiday Show Breaks Records
KeHE Distributors, a leading distributor of natural, specialty, multicultural and fresh products, hosted its annual Holiday Show at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois June 8-9, 2014. The two-day event brought together over 3,000 retailers and suppliers focused on natural, specialty and fresh products appropriate for the upcoming holiday season. New, emerging, and familiar "gotta have" items were on display throughout the show floor. …
Metro & Equiterre Continue Their Organic Basket Distribution Partnership
For the third year in a row, Metro and quiterre are pleased to partner to facilitate the distribution of organic baskets in all four corners of Quebec. Nineteen stores in all 18 Metro and 1 Super C which is 5 more than in 2013 and 16 more than in 2012, will serve as drop-off points until next October for baskets of fresh vegetables that are certified organic or in the process of becoming so, prepared by agricultural producers who are members of the quiterre Family Farmers Network. …
Government Of Canada Proposes Changes To Nutrition Information On Food Labels
The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, launched a series of online public consultations on proposed changes that will improve the way nutrition information is presented on labels. …