Nonfoods

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market here has made an Earth Day pledge: it aims to end the use of disposable plastic grocery bags at the checkouts in all of its 270 stores in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. by Earth Day, April 22, 2008.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market here has made an Earth Day pledge: it aims to end the use of disposable plastic grocery bags at the checkouts in all of its 270 stores in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. by Earth Day, April 22, 2008.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market here has made an Earth Day pledge: it aims to end the use of disposable plastic grocery bags at the checkouts in all of its 270 stores in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. by Earth Day, April 22, 2008.

SOUTH DENNIS, Mass. -Ring Bros. Marketplace here said it will donate 5 percent of sales from now until April 15th to the Nathaniel H. Wixon Middle and Laurence C. MacArthur Elementary Schools for the restoration of the school's playgrounds.

WASHINGTON -- The Grocery Manufacturers Association here yesterday gathered together over 500 executives from the consumer packaged goods industry, nongovernmental organizations, academia and government to discuss ways to reduce the industry's environmental footprint and affirm its commitment to environmentally sustainable business practices at the trade group's first-ever Environmental Sustainability Summit for the Food, Beverage and Consumer Products Industry.

WASHINGTON -- The Grocery Manufacturers Association here yesterday gathered together over 500 executives from the consumer packaged goods industry, nongovernmental organizations, academia and government to discuss ways to reduce the industry's environmental footprint and affirm its commitment to environmentally sustainable business practices at the trade group's first-ever Environmental Sustainability Summit for the Food, Beverage and Consumer Products Industry.

AMSTERDAM - Belgian supermarket group Delhaize blamed a weak dollar for a 3.7 percent drop in revenues for its 2007 fourth quarter, but said it still expects its U.S. business will ride out the current economic downturn.

WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Customers of Shaw's and Star Markets donated 308,748 pounds of food to eight New England food banks, all members of America's Second Harvest-The Nation's Food Bank Network, during Shaw's 8th Annual Spirit of Giving Food Drive.