Retail & FoodService

As school across Canada close for the summer, Sodexo's Feeding Our Future® program, in partnership with Sodexo client accounts, vendors and hunger relief organizations, will help bridge the gap for many children who would otherwise not receive healthy lunches during the summer months by preparing and serving approximately 135,000 lunches in nine cities across Canada. …

Chefs across the country have a chance to create America’s hottest new food trend in the “Next Top Product” contest launched by US Foods, one of the country’s most innovative food companies and leading distributors. …

Philip Clarke, the chief executive of Tesco, has signalled that the company will abandon its American supermarket venture if it cannot make it work. …

United Supermarkets will reach another milestone on Sunday, June 3, when its Market Street location at 50th and Indiana here becomes a 24-hour store. It will mark the first time in the company’s 96-year history that it has operated a round-the-clock location. …

Members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 5 employed by Lucky-Save Mart have authorized a strike by a 94% margin. Ballots were counted Friday night after a week-long series of meetings held from Ukiah to Salinas. Members have been involved in negotiations with their employer since September of 2011. The talks have been bogged down over employer demands for massive takeaways in benefits for active and retired members. Talks have also floundered on management insistence on reductions in job status that would lead to large pay cuts or layoffs for hundreds of workers across the region. …