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  • Spartan Stores Offers GM Auto Workers Grocery, Fuel Discounts

    Spartan Stores, a grocery supplier to independent grocers and operator of 99 retail stores throughout Michigan, is stepping up to provide support to the General Motors auto workers who have lost their jobs due to the May closure of the GM Metal Fabricating Plant. Spartan has also offered the program to UAW locals in Eastern Michigan and Traverse City, Mich.

  • Whole Web

    With its 820,900 followers, Whole Foods Market (WFM) has more people listening to its tweets than to those of Tony Robbins, “Good Morning America” and Martha Stewart; and it ranks No. 36 overall in number of followers as of June 7, according to Twitter tracker Twitterholic (http://www.twitterholic.com). No other food retailer even makes the top 500.

  • Watermelon 2.0

    Watermelon — it’s not just for summer picnics anymore. That’s the message, among many others, behind efforts by the Orlando, Fla.-based National Watermelon Promotion Board (NWPB) to bring the iconic fruit into the 21st century with its very own blog.

  • Giant Eagle Reduces Chicken, Ground Beef Prices

    Giant Eagle is lowering prices on popular fresh chicken and ground beef products by an average of 17 percent, which the regional retailer says will deliver customers approximately $20 million in annualized savings.

  • Turning Over a New Leaf

    Coastline Produce is now the exclusive shipper of Greenettes label leaf lettuce, which will be available in Green Leaf, Red Leaf and Romaine lettuce varieties. Since 1964, the Greenettes label has been a hallmark of fresh, high quality vegetables.

  • Labor Talks Heat Up Between Acme Markets, Union

    After 39 negotiating sessions between Philadelphia-based Acme Markets subsidiary and the local labor union that represents its retail clerks over the past 18 months, executives from the Supervalu-owned supermarket chain said they’re prepared for a walkout next month but hope their 4,500 unionized workers in southeastern Pennsylvania will accept the company’s final contract offer to curtail such an action.

  • Consumers Continue Turn To Store Brands, But Brands Showing Improvement

    Over the latest six (4-week) periods ending 5/16/2009, store brand unit sales averaged a 5.7% increase in consumer-packaged-goods departments tracked by Nielsen in food, drug and mass-merchandisers (including Walmart).

  • U.S.-Canada Organic Equivalency Finalized

    An equivalency agreement has been reached between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan said yesterday in her keynote address at the Organic Trade Association (OTA)’s All Things Organic Conference and Trade Show in Chicago.
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