Retail & FoodService

There’s no time like the holidays for lavish feasts and decadent treats, which means it’s time for consumers to start decking their fridges and pantries with food for year-end entertaining. So when December hits, shoppers up the ante when it comes to stocking their baskets with fresh foods, when family and friends begin gathering to indulge on holiday favorites like turkeys, pies and sweet potatoes. And because quality and selection in the fresh departments is an important driver of shoppers’ store choice, enticing shoppers with fresh options in December can mean winning the entire holiday basket and generating the highest sales of the year. …

Whole Foods Market Inc., facing intensifying competition from organic and natural-food chains, is testing a loyalty program that gives customers a 10 percent discount on its 365 private-label line of groceries. …

Seven Kroger stores in the area are under renovation.  Behind walls, dirt is being moved out and Kroger is adding 33,000 square feet to its Hikes Point Store at McMahon Plaza. …

Fairway Group Holdings Corp., the parent company of Fairway Market, today launched a new mobile app. Take the best of a top-rated cooking show and a best-selling cookbook, then add mouth-watering photos, easy-to-follow cooking instructions, mix in some music and special money-saving offers, and you have the recipe for a fabulous app – new Fairway Market mobile app. …

Exopack Holdings S.A., formed in May by the combination of five leading packaging companies in North America and Europe, today unveiled “COVERIS™” as the organization’s new name. COVERIS is the sixth largest global plastics packaging company, with revenues in excess of US$2.5 billion and operations in 21 countries. The company, an affiliated portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., produces flexible and rigid plastic and paper packaging, as well as advanced coatings for customers around the world. …