This has also had a negative effect on the distributors of food to grocery stores.
One example is our work with the Food Trust to bring grocery stores with healthy food options to food deserts.
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After all, when people cannot afford food, we do not give them a card that allows them to buy food only at grocery stores willing to sell to them at deeply discounted prices.
Even grocery and food stores are getting into the mix: 38 percent of them plan to purchase tablets in the next 12 months.
After years of personal and economic struggles, she eventually set up a recycling system where families could bring their garbage to be her for recycling, in exchange for food at the local grocery store.
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"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.
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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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 U.S. food distribution business looks like the grocery business 15 years ago, " he notes.
"Consumers only see grocery shelves stacked with food, floor to ceiling, " he said.
Later on Tuesday he will meet supermarkets, the Institute of Grocery Distributors and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to discuss the issue further.
And, as well as cutting the cost of gasoline, Wal-Mart is lowering prices on grocery items even as food prices generally are trending higher.
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.
Increasing food prices helped boost restaurant and grocery-store sales by 0.8%.
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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.
Their unawareness of how they consume energy is analogous to an individual paying for a grocery cart full of food at the supermarket, but without knowing what is in the cart or how much any individual item in the cart costs.
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.
"It's a huge problem for us, " says Erik Lieberman of the Food Marketing Institute, which represents retail grocery chains.
Market research firm Euromonitor International tracks private-label spending in the core grocery products sectors, including food, beverages and personal care.
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.
The business started shifting away from stocking streams to stocking store shelves in the 1970s, when Giant Food, a Landover, Md. grocery chain now owned by the Dutch group Royal Ahold, started buying its fillets.
As head of a cow protection enforcement team, he regularly scours Delhi grocery stores and outdoor markets for food products containing cow beef.
To make matters worse, online grocery shoppers tend to want their food delivered at the beginning or end of the week, leading to a crush of orders.
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.
We've got to eliminate food deserts and make sure that there are more grocery stores and farmers markets in communities.
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