OCTOBER 2011 3,265 cases of salad blends sold under supermarket names.
That changed in late September when a full-fledged supermarket named Fare & Square opened in the very building that had housed the last profit-driven supermarket.
They lack the acreage or the production power of the big corporate farms who sell to distributors with familiar supermarket names, like Dole, Driscoll or Del Monte.
Smith said she sympathised with people who did not like seeing supermarkets named in the book, but said it had been done to help readers.
K-VA-T Food Stores’ unique name reflects the locations of its supermarkets in Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, operating under the Food City and Super Dollar Supermarkets names.
Even the supermarket's name reflects the blend.
Introduced in 1962, the Tops brand is widely recognized as a strong retail supermarket brand name in upstate New York.
Some 27 companies -- UPS, Miller, Budweiser, Chevy, Ford, Dodge, A.I.M. management funds, Kroger's supermarkets, to name a few -- have signs in the stadium.
New York City has more grocery stores per square mile than anywhere else in the nation, but, according to a supermarket consultant named Burt P. Flickinger III, its outlets are smaller, there are fewer of them per capita, and, because retail rents here are roughly five times higher, profits are lower than they are in the suburbs.
That's the Way I Like It Living the "Saturday Night Fever" dream in Singapore, a supermarket clerk named Hock Adrian Pangg) feels like dancing when a $5,000 contest prize offered by the Galaxy Disco presents him with a chance to buy a shiny new motorbike.
