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  • Nielsen: Half of U.S. Consumers Curb Spending to Combat High Gas Prices

    SCHAUMBURG, Ill. New research from The Nielsen Company finds that half (49 percent) of U.S. consumers are reducing their spending to compensate for rising gas prices, up four points from June 2007. Consumers are also battling high gas prices by combining shopping trips and errands (70 percent), eating out less (41 percent), and staying home more often (39 percent).

  • Frieda's Chinese New Year Promo Builds Sales

    LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. -- Chinese New Year is a celebration rich in history and tradition. For produce managers, Frieda's Inc. based here is reminding retailers that it's also an opportunity to build sales as the 15-day celebration is filled with family feasts and banquets.

  • Sterilox Food Safety Receives $11 Million Order

    MALVERN, Pa. -- Sterilox Food Safety based here, a division of U.K.-based PuriCore, has added another major food retail to its client roster. Due to confidentiality agreements, Sterilox was unable to identify the retailer by name. But Geoff Koontz, company spokesman, told Progressive Grocer that the new retail account is among the top five national supermarket chains with operations throughout North America.

  • Target's Archer Farms Brand Goes Trans-fat Free

    MINNEAPOLIS -- Target Corp. here said it is making its private label foods more heart-healthy by removing trans fats from its entire Archer Farms food line, which includes more than 2,000 items sold exclusively at Target's stores.

  • BJ's Wholesale Club December Sales Up; Food Sales Solid

    NATICK, Mass. -- Due in major part to strongly performing food categories, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. Friday posted a December a sales increase of 6.2 percent, to $1.032 billion, from $971.8 million in the year-ago period.

  • Hy-Vee Unveils New Generic Drug Program

    DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hy-Vee here tomorrow will launch a new generic prescription drug program in all of its supermarket pharmacies and drugstores.

  • Frieda's Chinese New Year Promo Builds Sales

    LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. -- Chinese New Year is a celebration rich in history and tradition. For produce managers, Frieda's Inc. based here is reminding retailers that it's also an opportunity to build sales as the 15-day celebration is filled with family feasts and banquets.

  • Sterilox Food Safety Receives $11 Million Order

    MALVERN, Pa. -- Sterilox Food Safety based here, a division of U.K.-based PuriCore, has added another major food retail to its client roster. Due to confidentiality agreements, Sterilox was unable to identify the retailer by name. But Geoff Koontz, company spokesman, told Progressive Grocer that the new retail account is among the top five national supermarket chains with operations throughout North America.
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