Food, particularly fresh food, is clearly driving the business at Costco Wholesale Corp., Richard Galanti, the chain’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, said yesterday during a conference call to discuss financial results...
At the request of Gov. Arnold Schwazenegger, several food companies operating in Northern California donated more than 120 pallets of non-perishable foods earlier this week.
A survey of 52 retailers by the Retail Industry Leaders Association indicated that high percentages of merchants are reporting increases in unlawful store activity as economic conditions worsen.
Change to Win, a coalition of seven unions, including the United Food and Commercial Workers, said it did not discuss a possible position at the organization for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was accused this week of seeking to “sell&...
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday said that New York Supermarkets Inc., an independent operator of three stores, has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that it denied workers minimum wage and overtime pay.
In what analysts believe may be prelude to taking Loblaw Cos. private, George Weston Ltd. on Wednesday said it has agreed to sell its U.S. bakery divisions to Grupo Bimbo for $2.5 billion.
Whole Foods Market on Tuesday stepped up its defense in its ongoing tangle with the Federal Trade Commission, filing a complaint in U.S. District Court seeking to bar the FTC from conducting an administrative trial on the legality of Whole Foods&...
Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to pay up to $54.25 million to settle a class-action wage-and-hour lawsuit in Minneapolis, the retailer and prosecutors announced in a joint statement Tuesday.
Shares in Kroger were trading down more than 6% yesterday after the retailer here acknowledged sluggish sales of nonfood items in the current quarter and a decline in earnings in the third quarter due to expenses related to Hurricane Ike.