CSC Worldwide Cuts 94 Jobs As It Exits Grocery Business

CSC Worldwide has exited one of its business lines, leading to 94 job cuts at the Columbus retail fixtures supplier.

A Remix In Grocery Retailing, According To Latest Packaged Facts Report

August 14, 2013 Packaged Facts

The retail market for foods and beverages is undergoing some of its greatest changes since supermarkets came to the fore in the 1940s and ’50s, according to “The Future of Food Retailing: Shopper Insights and Market Opportunities”, a just released report from market research firm Packaged Facts.According to David Sprinkle, Research Director for Packaged Facts, “Economic, demographic, lifestyle and technological changes have created not only a fertile environment but the absolute necessity for new concepts to engage shoppers, capture share of stomach, and re-invent food and beverage retailing.”

Fairway Market To Anchor Hudson Yards Retail

August 14, 2013 Justin Sumner, CoStar Group

Fairway Market, the iconic grocery store that functions as an organic farmers market, butcher, baker, cheese shop and fish monger all in one, has signed on to anchor the famed Hudson Yards development with a 45,875-square-foot retail store on the ground floor of the South Tower.

Performance Foodservice Restaurant Marketing Program Aims To Increase Traffic & Build Loyalty

August 13, 2013 Performance Food Group

Menuetta, a custom marketing solution that enables busy restaurant operators to increase traffic and build loyalty by using a smartly integrated platform to easily manage their marketing efforts through mobile devices, websites, social media and traditional print, is now available to the restaurant industry from Performance Foodservice.

Taylor Farms de Mexico Halts Salad Production Amid Cyclospora Outbreak

August 13, 2013 Ryan Jaslow, CBS News

Taylor Farms de Mexico, a company that produces bagged salad mixes linked to a cyclospora outbreak in two states, has suspended its operations.