California Strawberry Commission Launches New Recipe Blog

To provide healthy eating ideas for busy families, the California Strawberry Commission today announced a new blog on its website called "In the Kitchen" featuring weekly recipes, healthy tips and topics by moms, food bloggers, chefs and health professionals. Readers are invited to get free recipes and join the conversation at http://www.californiastrawberries.com/in_the_kitchen/

Bowie, MD Wants To Use Alcohol To Lure Specialty Retailer

Bowie officials want to allow beer and wine sales at some grocery stores — now illegal in Prince George's County and most of Maryland — to attract a specialty grocery store.

Michael's Market Files For Bankruptcy Protection

Michael’s Market Inc., which includes six stores in the Chicago metropolitan area, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is blaming its lender, Premier Bank of Wilmette, for its woes citing regulatory problems at the bank.

K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. Chooses Revionics For Price Optimization

January 5, 2012 Revionics, Inc.

Revionics, Inc., the leading provider in retail life cycle price optimization solutions, and K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc., one of the Mid-Atlantic's largest and oldest regional grocers, announced that K-VA-T has selected Revionics as their price optimization provider. K-VA-T will deploy Revionics(R) Price Optimization and Revionics(R) Promotion Optimization, which includes Revionics' category planning tools, weekly price maintenance capabilities and optimized prices across all pricing zones, each week.

Proposed Grocery Tax Unlikely To Be Approved By The Georgia General Assembly

As the Georgia General Assembly reconvenes next week for an election-year session in a still lackluster economy, lawmakers likely will reject any proposal to reinstate a sales tax on groceries, state leaders say.