CHICAGO -- Shoppers at Super Kmart Center stores in the Chicago area are happy to fill their baskets with sale items, but they have yet to accept the supercenter as their primary grocery store, according to recent...
NEW YORK -- Premium store brands are shaking up the supermarket soft-drink aisle.Store-brand colas carrying the Safeway Select, A&P Master Choice and Winn-Dixie Prestige labels, to name a few, have become increasingly...
CHICAGO -- Spartan Stores, which began streamlining its business practices in mid-1992, is still seeking to recover all the revenues it has subsequently lost by reducing forward buying and diverting activities, an...
ARCADIA, Calif. -- Vons Cos. here said several factors contributed to a 4.2% sales decline in the first quarter ended March 27. Same-store sales fell 5.5%.Sales totaled $1.14 billion in the 12-week period. Sales have...
CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. here last week reported better-than-expected earnings and cash flow for the first quarter. It marked the second consecutive quarter Kroger, the nation's largest supermarket operator...
NEW YORK -- After two years of operating in a difficult environment, major supermarket chains began to turn the corner toward improved sales and earnings in the latter half of fiscal 1993, especially the fourth...
TAMPA, Fla. -- With talks proceeding rapidly to bring new ownership into the Kash n' Karry chain, the retailer's top executive said he doesn't foresee breaking up the operation into smaller parts."It would be very...
SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion here reported net income of $31.2 million for the first quarter ended March 26. This represented a 42.1% increase compared with income of $21.9 million in the year-ago first quarter. Last...
NEW YORK -- After outperforming the market in February and March, most supermarket industry stocks gave back their hard-earned price increases during the recent market decline.The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which...
LANDOVER, Md. -- Giant Food here said last week net income increased 16.8% to $95.2 million in the fiscal year ended Feb. 26.Excluding a $3.9 million credit for the cumulative effect of an accounting change, year-end...