Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market — the U.S. division of United Kingdom-based Tesco — was scheduled to open its 100th U.S. store today in Fullerton, Calif., just one year after launching its U.S. operation.

Harps Food Stores is scheduled to announce today that it has agreed to acquire Wallace & Owens Stores, an eight-unit chain with stores in Missouri and Arkansas.

Moody's Investor Service lowered the ratings of Whole Foods Market yesterday and said the chain's ratings remain on review for possible further downgrades.

Dan Fouts, retired quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and a resident here, is scheduled to participate in tomorrow's opening ceremonies of Ray's Food Place, a 43,500-square-foot replacement store operated by C&K Market, a 60-store chain based...

Randall Onstead, the supermarket industry veteran who last week was named chairman of the board and interim chief executive officer of Bi-Lo, said he will launch a search for a permanent CEO early next year. Onstead is succeeding Brian Hotarek...

Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election was also a triumph for the nation's largest supermarket union, which sees the event as a mandate to reform labor law and organize non-union retailers. The president-elect has said he would...

Wal-Mart Stores has garnered the No. 1 position in Cannondale's 2008 PoweRanking survey of retailers, marking the Bentonville, Ark.-based company's 10th consecutive year in that spot. The survey, released by Cannondale Associates here, uses...

They share a name and an owner, and their operating areas brush up against each other in the Mid-Atlantic states. But Ahold's two Giants are anything but twins. Giant-Landover with stores in the Washington, D.C., area, and a headquarters shared...

Canadian Tire Corp., which operates a chain of 474 stores across Canada specializing in auto, leisure and outdoor products, is planning to test a limited grocery offering in two stores, according to reports. The company will reportedly devote...