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CPG powerhouse Procter & Gamble yesterday took the wraps off its years-in-the-making program to help consumers whom the company calls the “sustainable mainstream” make simple choices based on resource conservation.
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Multi-format retailer Giant Eagle is celebrating its first-ever Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for its GetGo convenience store and fuel station located at 140 Towne Center Drive in Wexford, Pa.
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Hannaford Brothers has received the Gold Award from the Information Integrity Coalition (IIC), a Naperville, Ill.-based not-for-profit organization promoting information integrity, or accuracy, consistency and reliability of information content, and associated processes, systems and environment, for the grocer’s Systems Enhancement for Global Access (SEGA) program.
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In light of the grocery store’s dual role as one of the most visited destinations in American life and its unique position to help impart trusted, sound nutritional information and education, Roundy Supermarkets’ Pick ’n Save, Copps and Rainbow banners have joined forces with Chicago-based Field Trip Factory to invite area classrooms to take part in its “Be a Smart Shopper!” program.
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Harris Teeter’s “Together in Education” (TIE) program has launched its fourth “We Think Green” contest designed to teach students and parents the benefits of recycling, and to provide schools with yet another opportunity to earn cash.
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As part of its corporate sustainability efforts, United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) plans to adopt hydrogen fuel cell technology to power the lift truck fleet at its Sarasota, Fla., distribution center, which will improve the efficiency, productivity, and reliability of its operations.
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New York apple growers, on behalf of 42 participating supermarket chains, have once again donated $25,000 to the American Cancer Society (ACS) as part of an ongoing effort to help fight cancer and raise awareness of the cancer-fighting benefits of eating apples.
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Winn-Dixie locations in northeast Florida, south Georgia and the Tampa, Fla., area are participating in BOOKS-A-GO GO’s fourth annual National Children’s Book Drive, which runs through March 23.
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In recognition of this year’s Earth Day, Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is running a wine promotion in which, for each bottle of award-winning ONEHOPE Sauvignon Blanc Wine purchased at Fresh & Easy, American Forests, a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental restoration, will plant a tree in areas devastated by wildfires.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation supported by the California Grocers Association (CGA) that aims to restore the state’s Beverage Container Recycling Program and Fund to solvency through June.
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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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 An Egg-citing Development
Instead of spending time with messy coloring kits this Easter, consumers may wish to try some naturally blue eggs, courtesy of Monroe, N.H.-based Pete & Gerry’s Eggs — and if they do, there’s a good chance they’ll get hooked on the unique variety.
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Kimberly-Clark Corp. (K-C) has met the need for a practical alternative to traditional cloth hand towels in home bathrooms with Kleenex Hand Towels, an innovative system delivering one clean, fresh, dry towel every time consumers wash their hands.
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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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