Nonfoods

SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- Hannaford Supermarket and Pharmacy, based here, will open its 50th store in its home state on Saturday, March 4. The 36,000-square-foot location, in Bridgton, will feature the chain's usual complement of service-oriented fresh departments and other amenities.

CHICAGO -- More than 25 million Americans -- including nearly 9 million children and 3 million seniors -- receive emergency food assistance each year from America's Second Harvest-The Nation's Food Bank Network, representing an 8 percent increase since 2001, according to a new report sponsored by Altria, parent company of Kraft Foods.

MONROVIA, Calif. -- It's apparently official: Trader Joe's, based here, is entering the Atlanta market via two leased stores in Midtown and Sandy Springs. It would be the retailer's southernmost territory to date.

LANDOVER, Md. -- Giant Food, LLC said late last week that would sell its dairy operation and processing plant here to the Reston, Va.-based Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative for an undisclosed sum. The cooperative, which has provided all of the facility's raw milk for over 30 years, will buy the plant and 11 surrounding acres on March 25.

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- The boards of the Associated Food Dealers of Michigan (AFD) here, and the Great Lakes Petroleum Retailers and Allied Trades Association have voted to merge the two trade groups into a single association representing more than 3,900 small business locations in Michigan and Ohio.

VENTURA, Calif. -- Sunkist Growers and Taylor Farms announced a new joint venture -- Sunkist Taylor LLC -- at Sunkist's annual meeting held this week here.

TORRANCE, Calif. -- First the British, via Tesco, and now the Japanese; actually the Japanese were here first. Famima Corp., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based convenience store chain FamilyMart Co., Ltd., said yesterday it would launch the third of 20-plus high-end specialty stores in the Los Angeles area in 2006, as part of a planned major U.S. rollout.

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Campbell Soup Co., the world's largest soup company here, yesterday unveiled a major initiative to cut sodium in its soups and beverages. The company will offer new versions of its top-selling soups and reformulate some of its existing soups and beverages with less sodium.