Nonfoods

Canadian company Garden Protein International, Inc.’s (GPI) gardein line of healthy, convenient meat-free frozen foods is now available in the United States.

After a 10-year absence from southeast grocery stores, Food Lion, LLC and Tyson Foods have teamed up to reintroduce the Holly Farms fresh chicken brand at more than 1,200 Food Lion, Bloom and Bottom Dollar stores throughout the eastern United States.

Food Lion, LLC has rolled out its “MVP Free* Turkey” program for Thanksgiving in select markets, enabling shoppers to earn $20 off their next shopping order electronically by using their MVP loyalty cards and spending $45 a visit weekly at Food Lion. Customers must shop six of eight weeks to be eligible for the electronic coupon.

Guiding Stars Licensing Co. (GSLC) has teamed up with an iPhone shopping assistant application, ReachEverywhere’s Shopper, to offer busy shoppers access to its “Guiding Stars” good-better-best rating system.

Duane Reade this week is launching its own food and beverage brand, dubbed DR Delish. The New York-based drug store chain’s 25 original products include trail mixes, vitamin-enhanced teas, 100 percent juices, potato crisps, brownies, cookies and multigrain snacks.

Since taking the helm of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) in January 2009, Pamela G. Bailey has been confronted with some of the thorniest problems the $2.1 trillion food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry has had to deal with in a long time.

Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. yesterday introduced its newest generation of reusable bags. Retailing for $1.50 each at all of the Southeast regional grocer’s stores, the totes, made from 95 percent recycled material, are available in four vivid designs.

Regional independent Stater Bros. Supermarkets yesterday began offering a free 14-day supply of selected antibiotics, including refills, to anyone with or without health insurance coverage who presents a prescription at its Super Rx Pharmacies.