Nonfoods

Retail produce sellers this winter season have new resources at hand to make the most of the cocooning impulse.

Inserra Supermarkets' new Lodi, N.J. unit shows how Wakefern gives members the flexibility to tailor stores to their local base.

Retail produce sellers this winter season have new resources at hand to make the most of the cocooning impulse.

Organic milk is scoring spectacular successes as perceived health and environmental benefits intersect with a shrinking price gap.

LOS ANGELES -- Unified Grocers here, the largest wholesale grocery distributor in the western United States, yesterday reported strong sales growth for the fiscal year ended Sept. 29, 2007. The cooperative said it achieved net sales of $3.13 billion for the period, 6.1 percent higher than the $2.95 billion it recorded for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2006.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) said yesterday that Stephen L. Johnson, administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will keynote the trade association's first-ever Environmental Sustainability Summit for the Food, Beverage and Consumer Products Industry in Washington, D.C., January 17-18, 2008.

AUSTIN, Texas -- In a first step that may soon spread companywide, Whole Foods Market said yesterday that it will no longer offer plastic grocery bags at the checkouts in its two stores in Austin, Texas, its headquarters town.

AUSTIN, Texas -- In a first step that may soon spread companywide, Whole Foods Market said yesterday that it will no longer offer plastic grocery bags at the checkouts in its two stores in Austin, Texas, its headquarters town.