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

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.

Shaking the tree: PG's annual "state of the produce department" study finds wholesale price hikes and elusive profits fighting against the industry's continuing efforts to improve consumption.

Grocery industry sales gains continue, riding a wave of higher food prices, for better or worse.