Tops To Add Orchard Fresh Store After Orchard Park Success

It looks like Tops Friendly Markets picked a winner with its new Orchard Fresh concept store. The supermarket opened a high-end gourmet and specialty food retail shop in Orchard Park last month. The plan was to watch the new concept for about six months and – depending on its success – decide whether to add locations throughout Tops’ market area.

Kroger Creates App For Its Loyalty Card

The country's largest supermarket chain has launched an electronic version of its customer loyalty card, one of several recent initiatives.

UK's Marks & Spencer Trialling 'Sweet Green' Tomato Discovered In Israel

Marks and Spencer is selling what it claims is the first ripe and sweet green tomato on the high street in a trial with a Lancashire farmer. Grower Andy Roe has created 'the perfect tasting green tomato', which is technically sweeter than the popular Piccolini variety, the retailer said.

Dole Bananas Invites Seattle-Tacoma Residents To 'Peel The Love'

The world’s largest banana provider is giving Seattle-Tacoma residents the chance to do something unique this summer with the beloved yellow fruit: Peel the love.

Avocados From Mexico Implements New Marketing Strategy To Move Avocados From Exotic To Everyday

Avocados from Mexico, Inc. (AFM, Inc.), the newly formed marketing agency dedicated to the Mexican avocado industry, is allocating $36 million to grow the category and propel the Avocados from Mexico brand. To implement this strategy, Tim O'Connor, CEO, AFM, Inc., will appoint Arnold Worldwide as integrated agency of record, and Ketchum as PR agency of record. Launching nationally beginning in July 2013, the organization's first fully integrated campaign aims to move the avocado from exotic to everyday.