Retail & FoodService

Sacramento's grocery landscape, transformed in the 1990s with warehouse stores like Costco and Sam's Warehouse, is shifting once again. This time, the new players are chains with smaller stores promising organic food at middle-class prices. …

Whole Foods Market Inc. expects to one day have 1,000 stores in the United States, up from around 300 currently, co-Chief Executive Walter Robb said on Tuesday. …

Mount signs to most fences, bins and shelf fronts with FFR-DSI’s new Clip-On Stem Base. The versatile base is a practical solution for mounting stem-based signage to most standard wire fences, bins, glass and metal shelf fronts. …

Sentrana Inc., a leader in scientific marketing, announced today the release of the Marketing Management & Execution (MME) application suite which enables foodservice manufacturers and distributors to identify specific campaign opportunities and develop marketing plans based on predictive analytics. All foodservice companies must identify, plan, execute and track campaigns. MME provides the analytics and tools needed to quickly move from analysis & planning to execution & measurement on a single platform while maximizing return on campaign investments. …

Store brands capped a decade of powerful growth by posting sales increases across all three of the major retail channels in 2010 and pushing dollar market share to new all-time highs in supermarkets, drug stores and total outlets, according to PLMA’s 2011 Private Label Yearbook. The PLMA Yearbook tracks private label sales and market share trends based on data from The Nielsen Company. …