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Battery sales were up at supermarkets last year as retailers pushed hard to make the category a year-round business."The fact is that batteries practically sell themselves at Christmas," said Chuck Witt, director of general merchandise and health...
ELMSFORD, N.Y. -- Record More Profits, a multilayered cross-promotion between Fuji consumer videotapes and TV Guide, is a hit in supermarkets, mass merchants, electronics stores and music retailers. The promotion involves Fuji's single and...
QUINCY, Mass. -- Ahold, Zaandam, Netherlands, agreed to acquire Stop & Shop Cos. here last week in a move that surprised the supermarket industry and underlined the Dutch firm's determination to markedly increase its U.S. presence.For the $2.9...
WASHINGTON -- Food Marketing Institute's new MealSolutions show will feature a wider focus than FMI's earlier seafood and food-service conferences, and will include a show floor with exhibits.es the primary source of meal solutions for today's...
Ahold, the Dutch-American food retailer, is continuing its march up and down the Eastern seaboard of the United States, a process that is being greatly accelerated by its planned buyout of Stop & Shop Cos., Quincy, Mass.The latest acquisition deal...
Smitty's Supermarkets, Phoenix, plans to lay off nearly all of its 170 administrative employees and close its headquarters by July 31 as part of its merger with Smith's Food & Drug Centers, Salt Lake City. Observers said some of the staff may be...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Van Den Bergh Foods has embarked on its first effort at a broker-managed continuous replenishment program in this market.Working with food broker DeRose Marketing here, Van Den Bergh went live with an unnamed local grocery chain...
NEW YORK -- Supermarkets again placed high on a list of the top rental retailers in the country, but there were significant changes in the rankings. Twenty-three supermarket chains were on the listing of the Top 96 rental chains printed in the...
Blistex Buys Two Bayer Brandsonsumer Care Division of the Bayer Corp. here has sold two of its brands -- Stri-Dex and Dairy Ease -- to Blistex, Oak Brook, Ill.Stri-Dex is an acne treatment line and Dairy Ease is a food supplement designed to aid...
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- Waldbaum's here, a division of A&P, Montvale, N.J., has introduced store-made pizza in the deli.ur pizzas with this message superimposed on the photos: "Introducing store-made pizza. Only the freshest ingredients used on our...