Nonfoods

SCHENECTADY, NY -- Price Chopper yesterday said it added more than 1,000 new natural and organic items across several categories in its 115 stores that span six Northeastern states.

SCHENECTADY, NY -- Price Chopper yesterday said it added more than 1,000 new natural and organic items across several categories in its 115 stores that span six Northeastern states.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Utilizing one global communications language for the entire supply chain will solve the industry's current inability to identify, mark, manage, and track fresh food products across the food supply chain and at point-of-sale, according to findings revealed in a white paper from a coalition of associations from the fresh food and retail sectors.

SCHENECTADY, NY -- Price Chopper yesterday said it added more than 1,000 new natural and organic items across several categories in its 115 stores that span six Northeastern states.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Utilizing one global communications language for the entire supply chain will solve the industry's current inability to identify, mark, manage, and track fresh food products across the food supply chain and at point-of-sale, according to findings revealed in a white paper from a coalition of associations from the fresh food and retail sectors.

KEENE, N.H. -- To give underprivileged people in the area the best start to the day possible, C&S Wholesale Grocers here has donated 13 truckloads of food -- including 6,000 boxes of cereal from C&S vendor Malt-O-Meal in Minneapolis -- to the Brattleboro, Vt. Area Drop-In Center via Project Feed the Thousands in 2007.

NEW YORK -- Functional foods and beverages -- those products that provide a positive pharmaceutical benefit beyond basic nutrition by virtue of their inclusion of medically beneficial ingredients -- are growing into a huge niche market estimated at nearly $25 billion in 2006 and destined to touch $39 billion by 2011, said market research publisher Packaged Facts in a new study.

KEENE, N.H. -- To give underprivileged people in the area the best start to the day possible, C&S Wholesale Grocers here has donated 13 truckloads of food -- including 6,000 boxes of cereal from C&S vendor Malt-O-Meal in Minneapolis -- to the Brattleboro, Vt. Area Drop-In Center via Project Feed the Thousands in 2007.