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Retailers continue to prize efficiencies more than employees, and experts predict the payback will be a shortage of management talent in just a few years.

Grocers can boost year-round sales of school and office supplies simply by regaining focus on the category and using creative promotions.

In the dog-eat-dog world of beer marketing, hometown regionals are brewing up a storm.

WICHITA, Kan. - As colorful new $20 bills circulate around the nation, more consumers are finding out that the notes don't work on automated payment machines like those found in self-service checkout counters at grocery stores.

BOULDER, Colo. - Wild Oats Markets, Inc. today released its preliminary third-quarter 2003 sales and earnings results. The national natural and organic foods retailer also announced that it has reached a decision with distributor Tree of Life, Inc. that mutual expectations under the two companies' primary distribution agreement were unlikely to be met and that Tree of Life would relinquish the primary distribution role.

TAMPA, Fla. - ADC, Inc., a provider of data communication technology to the supermarket industry, said today it has licensed its InterScale scales management system to Lowes Foods, a 106-store supermarket chain based in Winston-Salem, N.C.

WASHINGTON - After presiding over numerous fact-finding discussions with more than 70 different trade and producer groups, the U.S. Agriculture Department yesterday issued its proposed rules for the congressionally mandated country-of-origin labeling (COOL) program that was required by the 2002 Farm Bill.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - ACNielsen U.S., an operating unit of ACNielsen, a VNU business, this week announced plans to more than double the size of its Homescan consumer panel, the single largest expansion in the history of this industry-leading service.