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The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has chosen Global Trust Certification, Ltd. to perform an independent third-party certification of Alaska’s fisheries management systems.
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Food Lion, LLC banners and sister Delhaize Group division Bottom Dollar Food have joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of Energy Star Leaders, a select group of organizations that have improved energy efficiency across all of their sites.
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Grocery shoppers are looking more closely ethical food claims for practical as well as altruistic reasons, according to a recent national survey by San Francisco Bay area-based strategic marketing communications firm Context Marketing.
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Price Chopper and the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) have joined forces to introduce an extension of the grocery chain’s “Fuel AdvantEdge” program that will offer CDTA riders the opportunity to pay less to ride area buses by using the Price Chopper AdvantEdge card.
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A slate of diverse grocery retailers from around the country has earned Progressive Grocer’s 2010 Green Grocer Awards.
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As the mainstream market warms to green, Progressive Grocer salutes grocery leaders that heeded the call and paved a sustainable path for the industry to follow.
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The California Legislature moved one step closer last week to providing a short-term solution to the State’s Beverage Container Recycling Program, according to the California Grocers Association.
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Safeway, Inc. yesterday became the first U.S.-based retail grocery chain and manufacturer of private label merchandise to join The Sustainability Consortium.
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A unique yearlong promotion at Farm Fresh shows shoppers that the first step in adopting a greener lifestyle can start with a trip to their local supermarket.
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Hy-Vee, Inc. will begin construction on a 64,000-square-foot replacement store this spring in Fairfield, Iowa, marking the company’s second store built in accordance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification standards.
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Supervalu’s Save-A-Lot subsidiary cut the ribbon at two new stores, one in Essex, Md., and the other in Opelousas, La.
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The world’s largest retailer is calling on its suppliers to help it eliminate 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the global supply chain by the end of 2015 via a three-pronged program targeting selection, action and assessment.
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The late Bill Grize of Ahold USA was a true grocery retailing legend, as a brief summation of his career amply illustrates.
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The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) recently named Save Mart Supermarkets an honoree of the 2009 Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) for its efforts in waste reduction and sustainability.
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Parents' increasing concerns about the environment have led large and small manufacturers of baby food — and the retailers that sell it — to offer more eco-friendly options in the category.
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Whole Foods Market and its nonprofit arm, Whole Planet Foundation, have teamed up with TastingTable.com to empower the poor through microcredit loans.
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These days, becoming eco-friendly has become as much of a political act as a practical or a social one for consumers, as they encountering an ever-increasing, often dizzying array of terms and concepts in the store. The Gourmet Retailer Senior Editor James Mellgren helps cut through the confusion.
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Jeff Brown and the National Grocers Association are spearheading the movement to open stores in underserved areas, which is poised to receive a large push from a proposed infusion of federal funds.
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Supervalu and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are collaborating to create a strategy for sustainably sourcing the store’s wild-caught seafood.
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Since joining EnerNOC’s demand response (DR) program, Stater Bros. Markets has earned annual payments of about $250,000 for reducing non-essential electricity usage during periods of peak demand, high electricity prices and other system needs.
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In honor of February Heart Health Month, Supervalu is highlighting its health-and-wellness outreach efforts by showcasing the many ways its nationwide family of stores are guiding customers to make better nutrition decisions.
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Ten-store urban independent The Fresh Grocer joined Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter to commemorate the first week of the “Recycling Rewards” partner program between the city of Philadelphia, the Streets Department and RecycleBank.
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Sprouts Farmers Market’s Round Rock, Texas store yesterday became the first in the state to earn the EPA’s GreenChill Gold-Level Store Award for green refrigeration technology.
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Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.’s new Covington, La., store, which bows today, is special for several reasons: Not only is the 55,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art supermarket the Jacksonville, Fla.-based grocer’s first newly constructed location since 2004.
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Whole Foods Market new store in San Jose, Calif. Will be its third powered with on-site fuel cell power, joining the Dedham, Mass., and Glastonbury, Conn. Locations already using the green power technology.
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 Hip to the Dip
French’s Mustard invites Americans of all ages to dip to their heart with the iconic brand’s new Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce.
 Brown Rice by the Pound
Lundberg Family Farms, the No. 1 producer of organic rice and rice products in the United States, has now brought out Eco-Farmed Short Grain Brown Rice and Eco-Farmed Long Grain Brown Rice in WIC-eligible 1-pound bags.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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