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.

Only 25 percent to 30 percent of household freezers are actually operating at or below the 0-degree Fahrenheit threshold recommended by the USDA, and with about 100 million freezers in the United States alone, that could mean a lot of compromised frozen food.

M&Ms have gone up in the world—from basic, iconic treat to bona fide gourmet indulgence—with the launch of M&Ms Premiums.