With little competition--and partners like food-distributor giant Sysco and grocery chains like Kroger, Shop Rite, Giant and Harris Teeter on board--Davidson's plan looks unbreakable.
"Donate enough money to the Senate GOP as an investment that will end up making their corporation an enormous amount of money, all on the backs of hard-working, taxpaying Americans, " said Patrick Purcell of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents workers in grocery and retail stores, and in food-processing and meat packing companies.
Unilever distributes its products to a variety of chain, wholesale, co-operative and independent grocery accounts, food service distributors and institutions.
With little competition--and such partners as the food-distributor giant Sysco and the grocery chains Kroger, Shop Rite, Giant and Harris Teeter on board--Davidson's plan looks unbreakable.
Even grocery and food stores are getting into the mix: 38 percent of them plan to purchase tablets in the next 12 months.
Increasing food prices helped boost restaurant and grocery-store sales by 0.8%.
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Last week, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York released the results from a survey of over 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry production.
So he trades his music to a grocer for food, and the grocer fills his grocery store with music.
Some of the plotting done by grocery stores and food manufacturers is to get you into situations where you are making spontaneous decisions.
This producer of household cleaning products, and grocery and specialty food products received an unsolicited offer on July 14, 2011, from activist investor Carl C.
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Grocery stores and food producers will see gains from lower fuel costs because it will simply cost less to get their products to market, with benefits accruing to companies like Hain Celestial (HAIN) and Whole Foods (WFM).
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Super Bowl parties would become grander events, and party hosts would buy more food and beverages to accommodate a greater number of guests, thus benefiting grocery stores and other merchants.
And it's - at least the administration's response has been, administratively, it would be absolutely impossible to administer that and to monitor in each grocery store what people are buying with their food stamps and that they think a better approach is to just have this better education.
Later on Tuesday he will meet supermarkets, the Institute of Grocery Distributors and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to discuss the issue further.
We've got to eliminate food deserts and make sure that there are more grocery stores and farmers markets in communities.
Kraft Foods Group, Inc. manufactures and markets food and beverage products, including convenient meals, refreshment beverages and coffee, cheese and other grocery products.
These grants help cities build bike trails and hiking paths and enable grocery stores in neighborhoods that lack them to stock and sell fresh, healthy food.
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As head of a cow protection enforcement team, he regularly scours Delhi grocery stores and outdoor markets for food products containing cow beef.
Market research firm Euromonitor International tracks private-label spending in the core grocery products sectors, including food, beverages and personal care.
Because the effort targets bodegas, restaurants, food carts, and movie theaters, but not convenience and grocery stores, critics say it is arbitrary.
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Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and John Koskinen, chair of the President Council on Y2K Conversion, flanked by representatives from the food industry, said that grocery stores, convenience stores and major chain restaurants have completed their Y2K preparations and anticipate no problems for consumers.
"The bottom line is this: Food companies are ready and consumers will be able to buy fruit and grocery products over the New Year's holiday and beyond, " said John Block, former secretary of agriculture and current chief of the Food Distributors International.
For example, fast food restaurants could display attractive pictures of salads and vegetables more prominently, and grocery stores could replace candy with fruit and healthy snacks at the register.
It also has initiatives promoting farmers' markets, having schools buy their foods locally, feeding low-income children nutritional foods during the summer, and encouraging grocery stores to operate in so-called "food deserts" that have little or no access to supermarkets that sell fresh and affordable foods, Vilsack said.
Despite its diminutive market cap, Nash Finch happens to be the second-largest publicly traded wholesale food distributor in the U.S. and one of the largest distributors of grocery products to U.S. military commissaries and exchanges.
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Grocery shoppers in Britain and Europe had every reason to believe that food labeled as beef was beef.
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That depressing performance would have been even worse without "vendor allowances" and "slotting fees, " cash paid to grocery stores by big food companies seeking prominent placement of their products.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association, a trade group, released a statement stressing that Food and Drug Administration tests on products in the lawsuit found they do not pose any health concerns.
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Look at the numbers: American grocery shelves only have three days of food available at any given time, and American citizens only have five days of food stored in their homes.
But, you know, obviously, the food desert issue of people having access to grocery stores that is both in rural areas and urban areas, there is not much difference in that.
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