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Food Helps BJ's Log Double-digit Comps in Q3

Stellar high-margin perishables sales helped push comps to their highest in 15 quarters. More >>

Winn-Dixie Offering Reloadable Prepaid Cards

Winn-Dixie Stores has begun to offer reloadable prepaid cards at its 521 grocery stores, in a program with nFinanSe, a Tampa-Fla.-based provider of stored value and prepaid card programs. More >>

Natural Products Industry Continues to Outperform at Conventional Retail, Says SPINS

The natural market specialty firm said research shows product authenticity, and a focus on core consumers are helping sales performance. More >>

Meijer Unveils Holiday Prices Early

Customers' focus on value for 'Black Friday' and beyond is spurring the supercenter chain's move. More >>

Cub Foods Opens Second Smaller Footprint Store

The new ‘Eagan East’ Cub shoots for an “intimate” neighborhood market feel. More >>

Redner’s Debuts Delaware Unit

The regional grocer has cited its first store in the state in Dover More >>

ASCI Tabs Small Dip in Customer Satisfaction with Brands

The latest quarterly American Customer Satisfaction Index shows some CPG firms leading the way, but other companies without “strongly satisfied customers” face a difficult road ahead. More >>

Grocers Can't Neglect Quality as Store Brand Sales Take Off, PLMA Prez Says

Private label sales are going gangbusters nationally, but that’s no excuse for dropping the ball on high quality standards, cautioned Brian Sharoff, president of the Private Label Manufacturers Association, speaking at the trade association’s annual conference in Chicago this weekend. More >>

Stop & Shop, Giant Food to Offer Pet Insurance

Ahold-owned Stop & Shop and Giant Food will begin offering pet insurance this fall as a complement to their pet products, and an additional service to pet-owning shoppers. More >>

EXCLUSIVE WEB FEATURE: Multicutural Marketing: Do you dream in color?

Like the vibrant hues that appeal to Latinos, cultural cachet can attract corporate growth. This year's Hispanic Retail 360 Summit in Miami showed how. More >>

Loblaw Sees Q3 Progress, but Economic Worries Loom

The chairman said Loblaw is "preparing for a challenging close to the current year and start to the next."
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H-E-B Opens Largest Convenient Care Clinic in Houston Store

The new facility, the grocer's 21st, has three exam rooms and a special blood draw station.
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Meijer Working with Lifestyle Maven Katie Brown

The author and PBS host will be the retailer's 'Home Solutions Advisor'
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Google Using Search Tech to Tracks the Flu

The company can spot patterns of flu incidents two weeks faster than the CDC, with results that are just as accurate.
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Spartan Banners Enter $4 Generic Drug Derby

The Midwest operator's newly unveiled program offers discounts on more than 300 generics prescribed in 30-day supplies. More >>

Retailers Settle Patent Lawsuit, Enters into License Agreement

The licensed technologies make possible such services as telephone prescription refill requests. More >>

Meijer Teams with Scrip Benefits Manager to Develop Health-Focused Program

The supercenter chain's "Be Well" program offers expansive list of benefits for 4D employer groups. More >>

Jewel-Osco Extends Prescription Plus Rewards Program

Jewel-Osco Pharmacy said it is extending the limited life of its Prescription Plus rewards program through January 31, 2009, to help its frequent pharmacy customers continue to reduce their grocery bills in the face of challenging economic times. More >>

Giant Eagle Turns Fuelperks! Inside Out in Columbus, OH

The regional grocery leader now lets customers to fuel their way to food savings, rather than eating their way to cheap gas. More >>

Nash Finch Q3 Sales up 5%, but Profits Skid

Food distribution sales rose on growth from new and existing customers. More >>

Farm Fresh to Give Away Year's Worth of Gas to 10 Shoppers

The Virginia chain is catching customer attention with the promotion. More >>

Walgreen's Oct. Sales Up 6.8 Percent

While over-the-counter items were important to the drug chain, pharmacy sales accounted for over half of revenue in the month. More >>

Spartan Stores Banners Tap New Gas Savings Program

D&W and Family Fare stores in west Mich. kick off a fuel rewards program with a limited-time, 50-cent per gallon discount on $100 purchase. More >>

Safeway Doubles PowerPump Gas Rewards on Gift Cards

Safeway Inc. is doubling its PowerPump Gas Rewards for gift cards purchased at Safeway stores during the holiday season. Customers can also combine multiple gas rewards in a single transaction and increase their savings dramatically. More >>

Walgreen Said Cutting In-Store Refills in Fla.

At a recent analyst day conference, Walgreen said it's committed to cutting costs-and one of those cost-cutting measures is a plan to eliminate the practice of having in-store pharmacists fill routine prescriptions for maintenance medications such as cholesterol drugs, heartburn pills, or antidepressants. More >>

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