News tagged with grocery store

Grocery store chain mixes high and low tech to increase sales

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a marketing strategy that can only be described as brilliant; brilliant enough to win the Media Grand Prix award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, advertising agency ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Enticing words on bags of potato chips have a lot to say about social class, researchers find

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like politicians who adopt regional accents to appeal to local audiences, the manufacturers of potato chips vary the wording on their bags to convey their products' authenticity in different ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Germany upholds warning for vegetables

(AP) -- Researchers still have not been able to pinpoint the cause for a deadly foodborne bacterial outbreak that has hit Germany and other European nations, Germany's agriculture minister said Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Warning labels better than a fat tax, study shows

Warning labels on junk food would be more effective than a "fat" tax for deterring overweight people from making unhealthy purchases, a new University of Alberta study has found.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Free antibiotics: The wrong prescription for cold and flu season

With an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections growing, experts are warning grocery-store pharmacies that antibiotics giveaways are an unhealthy promotional gimmick. If grocery stores want to help customers and save ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Will organic fruit, vegetables get cheaper soon?

Many grocery stores now carry at least some types of organic fruit and vegetables, thanks to the growing demand for these products that are viewed as more environmentally friendly and safer to eat than other produce. From ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NYC public school students have high levels of access to convenience stores with unhealthy food

Most studies of the food choices available near public schools have focused on fast food outlets rather than the full range of options available to schoolchildren. A new study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

MIT faculty see promise in American manufacturing

Not long ago, MIT political scientist Suzanne Berger was visiting a factory in western Massachusetts, a place that produces the plastic jugs you find in grocery stores. As she saw on the factory floor, the ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Study: 'Generic' brands save you money, even if you don't buy them

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from the W. P. Carey School of Business suggests the simple presence of the store brand can save you money at the grocery store, even if you don't buy it.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Avoiding the aisles at the grocery store can help keep off unwanted pounds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shopping the perimeter of your local grocery store and avoiding the aisles will give you a head start on fighting the battle of the bulge.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Shoppers shrug off fears about toxic reusable bags

(AP) -- So you care about the environment, and you take a reusable shopping bag with you to the grocery store to avoid polluting the planet with countless plastic sacks. Now you find out your bag is made ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Toddler foods too sweet

Fifty three percent of food products specifically targeted to babies and toddlers in Canadian grocery stores have an excessive proportion—more than 20 per cent—of calories coming from sugar, according to a new study by University ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shopping study: Do free samples really make you buy products?

(PhysOrg.com) -- As you do your holiday shopping this year, you'll probably encounter plenty of free sample stands at the big warehouse stores and grocery stores. Common sense might tell you that eating a bunch of samples ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Locally grown? It all depends on how you define it

(AP) -- The No. 2 official at the Agriculture Department recently got a real-life lesson in the loose definition of the trendiest word in groceries: "local."

Biology / Other

created Apr 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Cultivating supply chain experts

When a supply chain is firing on all cylinders -- moving products, information and money on schedule -- it goes largely unnoticed, at least to the average consumer. You expect to find the supplies you need ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0