Showing posts with label local foods movement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local foods movement. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Local Foods Memo - Farmers' Markets: Farmers' Market Season is Fast-Approaching

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Customers line the vendor stalls at the popular farmers' market in the small city of Sonora in Northern California's Gold Country fo...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Food Retailing Innovation Memo: Innovative Combination Retail Food Market and Urban Farm Set to Open in New Orleans LA USA Neighborhood

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New Orleans' Hollygrove market and urban farm is set to open in January, 2009 Educational garden and market hope to regrow Hollygrove n...
Saturday, October 11, 2008

Retail Memo: Innovative Virginia Natural Grocer Ellwood Thompson's Local Market to Open New Store in Washington, DC USA in Fall 2009

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Pictured above is an artist's rendering of the new Ellwood Thompson's Local Market natural grocery store to open next fall in Washin...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Retail Memo: Meet Waitrose's Two-Legged 'Hog Blogger'; He's An Integral Part of the UK Food Retailer's 'Save Our Bacon' Campaign

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No, United Kingdom supermarket chain Waitrose's "Hog Blogger" isn't a real hog. But he is a real pig farmer, as well as be...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Local Foods Retailing Memo: Sacramento, California-Based Raley's Supermarket Chain 'Doubling-Down' On its Local Foods Merchandising and Marketing

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Sacramento, California-based family-owned regional supermarket retailing powerhouse Raley's is expanding it's already aggressive loc...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Supply-Side Memo: Food Industry Giant Campbell's is Making a Big 'Locally-Grown' Push as Part of a Tomato Processing Plant Expansion in California

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Natural~Specialty Foods Memo learned at the recently concluded FMI (Food Marketing Institute) annual convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, that ...

Local Foods Retailing Memo: Tesco is Making Stronger Commitment to Local Foods Sourcing, Marketing and Merchandising in the United Kingdom

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Tesco, the world's number three retailer and the number one food and grocery sales market share leader in its home country of the United...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Local Foods Memo: Tesco's 1,000 Mile 'Local' Scottish Chickens

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Why did the chicken cross the road? To get into the truck for its 1,000-mile round trip of course. Retail giant Tesco, the world's numbe...