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The Live Better! Wellness Club at A&P, SuperFresh, Waldbaum’s and Pathmark stores throughout the Northeast now includes the Fresh&Healthy Rewards program and a special promotion for free prenatal care and children’s vitamins.
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A recent report by London-based research and analysis firm Datamonitor has found that Americans’ consumption on sugar and other sweeteners as part of their total energy consumption is over twice that of the global average.
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Community-based natural and organic grocer Alfalfa’s Market will return to its original Boulder, Colo., location as part of Whole Food Market’s divestiture of certain assets and stores it acquired in its 2007 merger with Wild Oats.
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Bi-Lo has introduced a health-and-wellness initiative, “Bi-Lo thrive!,” which includes the services of a full-time registered dietitian to teach customers how to prepare healthy meals from affordable, easy-to-find foods in the Mauldin, S.C.-based grocer’s stores.
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Whole milk is becoming the odd man out as health concerns favor lighter versions and alternatives like soymilk.
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Gateway products smooth a shopper's transition from mainstream health and wellness to more natural and sustainable products, says a recent GMDC report.
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Editors' picks for innovative products
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Nuval’s Nutritional Scoring System today rolls out at Brookshire’s stores, owned by the Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC), which operates over 119 locations in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
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As achieving and maintaining optimal health and wellness become the goals of an increasing number of Americans, almost half (43 percent) of the consumers polled for Shopping for Health 2010, the 18th annual study from Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Rodale, Inc.’s Prevention magazine, said they’re more aware of calories in the foods they eat than they were two years ago.
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Kashi Co.’s fifth annual Day of Change tour, which kicked off May 29 in Cincinnati has a new partner that’s been generating a lot of buzz for the past quarter-century: natural personal care company Burt’s Bees.
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Hannaford Supermarkets has unveiled a new Web site at www.hannaford.com, enabling visitors to create shopping lists with prices for individual items, as well as giving the Delhaize Group banner a way to inform customers in case a product they’ve bought is recalled.
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The vitamin, mineral and supplement (VMS) market is now about $11 billion in the United States, according to TABS Group, Inc., a Shelton, Conn.-based research and consulting company, which added that the category had grown by approximately 20 percent since the last time it did an estimate, in January 2008.
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Shoppers whose CVS/Caremark prescription plans are no longer being accepted at Walgreens are welcome at stores operated by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Pharmacy departments at the Montvale, N.J.-based grocer’s A&P, SuperFresh, Waldbaum’s, Pathmark and Food Basics banners throughout the Northeast are taking part in the program.
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This past weekend, ShopRite began providing free diabetes medications and education to customers – with or without insurance at store pharmacies across Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.
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Hannaford Supermarkets and Bloom are voluntarily recalling private-brand frozen fish supplied by Teaneck, N.J.-based Eastern Fish because the products may contain undeclared sulfites.
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Internet grocer Peapod this week will host its first community forum as part of a continuing initiative to provide healthy food choices in “food deserts,” where mainstream grocery stores are scarce.
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In keeping with its ongoing commitment to preventive health care, Stew Leonard's has launched a pilot program to offer on-site physicals for associates at the grocer’s flagship Norwalk, Conn., store. Manning the Stew Leonard’s “Wellness Mobile” is Igal Staw, a local doctor who has served the community for over 30 years.
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Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. has introduced a line of private label organic yogurt aimed squarely at shoppers in search of products with added health benefits.
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Starting this fall, Hy-Vee, Inc. will provide an innovative curriculum it developed on a variety of nutrition topics for first- and second-grade students in the Sioux City Community Schools.
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Save-A-Lot Food Stores and Mari Gallagher Research & Consulting Group have joined forces to raise awareness of the plight of millions of families in the United States who live in food deserts — large geographic areas with few, if any, grocery stores.
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Retail sales within the U.S. consumer packaged goods health-and-wellness industry reached almost $125 billion in 2009, representing an overall growth of 5 percent over the previous year, according to the Natural Marketing Institute.
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In the ongoing battle to capture parents' dollars, private label products are increasingly vying with familiar branded items in the infant formula category.
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Over 83 percent of foodies say they’d pay more for at least some organic or all-natural foods, a recent survey of 562 food bloggers from Healthbuzz, a new resource for nutrition and wellness information launched by online food community Foodbuzz.
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Today, over 100,000 older adults will engage in activities to improve their health as part of the 2010 National Senior Health & Fitness Day (NSHFD), a nationwide health and fitness event sponsored in part this year by fruit-based nutrition beverage brand BeneVia.
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Fiber is noticeably absent from the typical American diet, according to recent research by market researcher Mintel.
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 The Origins of Hummus
Made by the only manufacturer of all-natural hummus available nationwide, Tribe Origins is a line of smooth and creamy-style hummus.
 Greetings That Taste Good
This latest greeting card line from Cleveland, Ohio-based American Greetings Corp. really takes the cake — and some other yummy items.
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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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