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Donated Trucks Get Walmart’s Holiday Giving Campaign off and Rolling
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation yesterday rolled out “Walmart Gives Back,” a holiday giving program that will contribute $32 million in monetary and in-kind donations to charities across the nation.
Brands More Influential than Price in Spurring Purchases: Study
Nearly half of food and beverage category shoppers and almost 60 percent of health/beauty and household goods category shoppers buy their favored brand even when a cheaper alternative is available, with many shoppers using coupons and price promotions to justify the more expensive purchase, according to initial findings of a shopper marketing study from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), global management consulting firm Booz & Co., and online consumer community SheSpeaks.

Stemilt Pear-ish on Winter Promos

Stemilt Growers is offering a pair of promising promotions to help retailers sell apples and pears during the winter selling season.
Ready, Set, Strip

Retailers can add heat — not to mention crunch — to their foodservice offerings with new Crispy Jalapeño Strips from Fresh Gourmet, a brand of the Sun Valley, Calif.-based Sugar Foods Corp.
Nielsen Fresh Food Insights: Bakery, Meat, Seafood Shine In Tough Times

What a difference a year makes. Restaurant operators enjoyed a solid 2008, but by mid-year 2009, more than 4,000 had closed and the average guest check plunged more than 8 percent.
What Are the Hottest New Product Trends of 2009?

Walgreens chief innovation officer Colin Watts was in town last week to host a jury preview of the upcoming Product of the Year awards, an annual consumer-driven competition.
Weis Markets’ Fight Hunger Program Generates $410K for Food Banks

Weis Markets’ month-long “Fight Hunger” food drive generated $210,000 in customer food and monetary donations to local food banks and pantries throughout its five-state marketing area, which will be complemented by $200,000 in corporate donations to eight regional food banks.
Metro Offering Reusable Produce Bags

Canadian grocer Metro, Inc. will become the first supermarket chain in that country to offer reusable produce bags in all of its 484 stores in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
Who's Cutting Back on What

It’s common knowledge that consumers have been trying to economize in the past year. But where have they been focusing their efforts at austerity? Inquiring about specific money-saving steps respondents may or may not have taken in past six months, a new Harris Poll gives some indications.
PROGRESSIVE GROCER EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE: Not Frozen Out: National Brands vs. Private Label

Store brands have built momentum during the recession. Will consumers stick with private label frozen when better days arrive? Or will they return to the national brands they used previously?

Donated Trucks Get Walmart&#8217;s Holiday Giving Campaign off and Rolling

Brands More Influential than Price in Spurring Purchases: Study

Stemilt Pear-ish on Winter Promos

Ready, Set, Strip

Nielsen Fresh Food Insights: Bakery, Meat, Seafood Shine In Tough Times

What Are the Hottest New Product Trends of 2009?

Weis Markets&#8217; Fight Hunger Program Generates $410K for Food Banks

Metro Offering Reusable Produce Bags

Who's Cutting Back on What

PROGRESSIVE GROCER EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE: Not Frozen Out: National Brands vs. Private Label

Donated Trucks Get Walmart’s Holiday Giving Campaign off and Rolling

Weis Markets’ Fight Hunger Program Generates $410K for Food Banks