Retail & FoodService

Sam’s Club® and eight all-star executive chefs from across the U.S. have partnered to provide restaurant-quality, simply delicious mealtime solutions. Busy families and all on-the-go Americans will appreciate easy, creative chef-inspired solutions for breakfast, lunch snack and dinner at home as new recipes are unveiled every month from August through January, fashioned by the Sam’s Club Simply Delicious Chef Brigade partnership. …

Safeway is tapping into the power of Facebook to determine "America's Most Natural City." The winning city will be awarded with 25 picnic tables, sectioned off from the 305-foot Douglas Fir table that recently broke the Guinness World Record for the World's Longest Picnic Table, which was built in celebration of Safeway's Open Nature™, a new 100 percent natural line of high-quality foods. …

The National Restaurant Association (www.restaurant.org) today announced a month-long initiative to encourage restaurant and foodservice operators to participate in the 17th Annual National Food Safety Education Month (NFSEM) this September. The campaign focuses on the importance of food safety education and training, while continuing to raise awareness of the industry’s commitment to food safety. …

Nontraditional food retailers are going after their share of the lucrative grocery market and have been successful in taking it at the expense of Sweetbay, Publix and Winn-Dixie. …

This past Friday The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. opened its brand-new Superfresh store at North 2nd Street and West Girard Avenue in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties neighborhood. This Superfresh is A&P's first new store in Pennsylvania in more than 10 years. The store will bring nearly 120 new jobs to the community. …