BOSTON - Bread & Circus Whole Foods Market, the nation's largest retailer of natural and organic foods, is launching a new advertising campaign to support its store expansion in the northeast.
CHICAGO - Kraft Foods Inc. is once again a target of Genetically Engineered Food Alert, the Washington-based group whose research led to Kraft's recall of taco shells containing StarLink last year, Reuters reports.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Spartan Stores Inc. on Monday reported that sales for its fiscal 2002 third quarter decreased 6.4 percent to $1.06 billion from $1.14 billion in last year's third quarter.
NEW YORK - In the first few weeks of 2002, health- and comfort-related items, such as diet products, exercise equipment and board games, experienced a surge in sales at Wal-Mart, Reuters reports.
BOULDER, Colo. - Natural and organic foods retailer Wild Oats Markets Inc. has made changes in its organizational structure to further strengthen its merchandising department.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Ingles Markets Inc. today announced that its first-quarter earnings before extraordinary items reached $4.6 million, a 2.4% increase compared with the December 2000 quarter.
WASHINGTON - Children still are choking to death from Asian-made jelly candies despite repeated recalls, a ban on imports and a move by major grocery chains to pull the dangerous sweets off the shelves, The Associated Press reports.
