By Kevin Besey, Director // MDARD Food and Dairy Division Preventing foodborne illness at retail food establishments requires the consistent use of a series of coordinated food safety measures as outlined in the federal Food Code and Michigan Food Law. MDARD’s new data management capabilities implemented over the past year allow us to better use regulatory…
DetailsPosted by Kristen Cloud // the Shelby report In a new industry-wide effort to reduce consumer confusion about product date labels, grocery manufacturers and retailers have joined together to adopt standard wording on packaging about the quality and safety of products. Currently, more than 10 different date labels on packages—such as Sell By, Use By,…
DetailsBy TODD PRINCE // LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL George Duren, a 73-year old supermarket owner, will be flying back from Las Vegas to Port St. Joe, Florida, with clear ideas on how to improve sales at his recently opened, 48,000 square feet high-end grocery store. Dressed in khakis and a brown plaid shirt and clutching a…
DetailsThe company has added a new line of snack bars and crackers without GMOs and artificial ingredients NACS Online Mondelez International Inc. is focusing its attention on its snacks, debuting a new line of snack bars and crackers made without artificial ingredients or GMOs as well as overhauling some current products, Bloomberg reports. For the…
DetailsA Mississippi retailer installed a burglar alarm on its pumps, while an Ohio gas station owner has secured his pumps with padlocks NACS Online Retailers are getting creative in their fight against credit card thieves at the pump. One Mississippi gas station operator teamed up with a burglar alarm company to arm its pumps against…
DetailsPosted by Kristen Cloud // The Shelby Report Analysis by Inmar Inc. of 2016 coupon activity reveals an ongoing “promotional transposition,” with paperless, digital coupons beginning to overtake traditional paper coupons in popularity. Inmar’s analysis shows that, among the more than 2.2 billion coupons redeemed by shoppers last year, the share of redemption captured by…
DetailsJohn Kell // Fortune PepsiCo is a Big Food manufacturer that keeps getting bigger. The massive food and beverage manufacturer finished 2016 with strong fourth-quarter results, due to particularly strong growth for the company’s North America operations, especially for the Frito-Lay and beverages portfolio. That helped offset the challenges that PepsiCo and other international firms…
DetailsSurvey suggests that 22% of retailers who don’t currently support Apple Pay plan to accept the payments service within the next 12 months NACS Online Recent Boston Retail Partners research reveals that Apple Pay is now accepted by 36% of U.S. merchants, up from 16% in 2016. The group found that 22% of retailers…
DetailsThanks to new machines that let customers flavor their drinks however they want, Coca-Cola discovered that what people really wanted was Cherry Sprite Venessa Wong // BuzzFeed News When it launched its design-your-own-flavor soda dispensers, Coca-Cola handed over the keys to its customers, letting them add a shot of flavor — say raspberry or vanilla…
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