Nonfoods

COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores, Inc. here is delaying the opening of its new Hispanic-centric Carnival flagship store due to construction delays, s.v.p. of strategy and marketing Poul Heilmann told Progressive Grocer on Friday.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

BURLINGTON, Wisc. -- Family-owned Spiegelhoff's Super Food Market, Inc. here has joined forces with fellow independent grocer, Bob Schmaling, to launch a new fresh-focused concept called Gooseberries Fresh Food Market. The store opened its doors yesterday in Burlington, Wisc., on 690 West State St. at the site of a former Piggly Wiggly Market.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- CVS Corp. here said yesterday that it agreed to purchase Minneapolis-based MinuteClinic, the largest provider of retail-based health clinics in the United States. MinuteClinic will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CVS.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Average manufacturer payments for unsaleables dipped slightly to 1.05 percent of sales from 1.13 percent between 2004 and 2005, according to The 2006 Unsaleables Benchmark Report, released yesterday at the Joint Unsaleables Conference here by the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Food Marketing Institute.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Average manufacturer payments for unsaleables dipped slightly to 1.05 percent of sales from 1.13 percent between 2004 and 2005, according to The 2006 Unsaleables Benchmark Report, released yesterday at the Joint Unsaleables Conference here by the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Food Marketing Institute.