Nonfoods

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. (A&P) has a special deal for members of the grocery chain’s Live Better! Wellness Club: free refills on prescription prenatal and children’s vitamins.

Free-standing insert coupon activity increased 10.1 percent based on coupons dropped during the first six months of 2010 vs. the same time period a year ago, with Target, Kroger, Publix and Ralphs among the retailers in the top 10 for total pages circulated.

Aisle7, a provider of wellness-driven shopper marketing programs for food and drug retail, last week introduced its Aisle7 Wellness AppStream, a set of standards-based Web services enabling digital marketers to build custom applications that leverage proprietary and custom Aisle7 wellness content featuring science-based recommendations.

The Produce Marketing Association (PMA) will host its first-ever Traceability Symposium Aug. 10 in Grand Rapids, Mich., at the J.W. Marriott Grand Rapids.

It’s not just Americans who are showing more interest in private label these days. According to a recent public opinion survey conducted by Harris/Decima for Canadian food retailer Sobeys, Inc., over 80 percent of grocery shoppers north of the border said they buy private label brands such as the grocer’s Compliments product line.

Customers who shop at any of Winn-Dixie’s 54 New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette-area stores in Louisiana and use the new Customer Reward Card (CRC) will earn fuel savings at participating Shell stations through the fuelperks! Rewards program.

Supervalu, Inc.’s Jewel-Osco chain is testing a new store format in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook that cuts up to 25 percent of products.

After years of negotiations with several supermarket organizations, community leaders of Pittsburgh’s Hill District are at long last applauding the pending arrival of a new 30,000-square-foot grocery store that represents the neighborhood’s first full-service grocery store since the 1980s.