INDIANAPOLIS -- Triple couponing has hit this market following the opening of two more Meijer hypermarkets here in August. In a market already heating up with promotions, Meijer, the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based chain...
ST. LOUIS -- After twice rejecting earlier contract offers, clerks employed by Schnuck Markets last week approved a new three-year pact calling for a 95-cent-an-hour wage increase.The agreement, covering 4,700 members...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Credit losses to retail customers are the primary obstacle hindering Fleming Cos.' return to satisfactory profit levels, Robert E. Stauth, chairman and chief executive officer, said at the company's...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Food Barn Stores will cease operations here March 25 and most of its stores will be taken over by independents that are members of Associated Wholesale Grocers, the wholesaler cooperative.The move...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Barring last-minute concessions by Food Barn's union, Associated Wholesale Grocers here expects to acquire the 40-store chain next week, according to papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.AWG has...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Associated Wholesale Grocers is looking to buy stores from the bankrupt Food Barn chain if current negotiations with the chain's principal union fail to produce concessions, it was revealed in U.S...