Nonfoods

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Price Chopper stores in Syracuse, N.Y. and Burlington, Vt. will offer shoppers free refrigerator thermometers beginning Sunday, Sept. 25.

Premium soups are satisfying consumers' tastes for better quality and convenience.

WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of supermarket operators recovering from Hurricane Katrina need immediate help to prepare their stores for the return of families who had evacuated their communities, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) here said yesterday.

In a retail world of seemingly infinite choices, any channel is a viable option for the food shopper. Here's a look ahead at some of the most viable.

One Piggly Wiggly operator reaches for premium cachet with a redesign, netting sales gains of 50 percent while retaining its established base.

The Network of Executive Women can help independents' management teams better reflect the changing consumer base.

Tons of high-margin HBC products are overlooked by most supermarkets because buyers are hamstrung into choosing only the obvious.

NEW YORK -- Although many research studies have documented that Hispanic consumers are more brand loyal than the general population, that doesn't mean that they cannot be lured by a well-planned store label program. That was the message of Ana Lilienfeld, senior director of strategy, and Albert Greenwood, business development manager, for Daymon Worldwide, a private label super-broker, during a session held yesterday here at the Expo Comida Latina trade show.