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PHOENIX -- Improved operations and new business strategies helped supermarket operators fight market pressures and achieve better-than-average financial results in 1995, according to a study by Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group's Consumer...
Supervalu AddsNine Posts-- Supervalu's Midwest regional office here last week named nine employees to new posts.Jack Carlile, formerly a retail business consultant at the Minneapolis-based wholesaler's Quincy, Fla., facility, was promoted to area...
MIAMI -- Supervalu, Minneapolis, is forging ahead with initiatives such as cross docking to bolster operating efficiencies and cut costs for all parties served by the wholesaler.But while Supervalu has successfully tapped into the potential of...
NEWARK, Del. -- Industry participation in the second quarter of the Produce for Better Health Foundation's new promotional program has almost doubled from the initial quarter of the program, said PBH officials here.The program's second quarter...
The era of communicating via Standard Interchange Language protocol may finally be dawning.With the Uniform Code Council, Dayton, Ohio, recently bestowing its official approval, and with growing usage among wholesalers and retailers such as...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here has signed on as the exclusive wholesaler for Streamline, Westwood, Mass., the consumer-direct operator serving as a testbed for industry research into alternative delivery channels.The wholesaler is also discussing...
NEW STANTON, Pa. -- Supervalu's Northeast Region division here has acquired a three-store Pittsburgh area operator and plans to sell the supermarkets to independent retail members.The wholesaler purchased the stores -- in Latrobe, Greensburg and...
MECHANICSVILLE, Va. -- Richfood Holdings here last week entered a five-year supply agreement with Magruder, Rockville, Md.The wholesaler, through its distribution center here, will become the chain's primary supplier of dry grocery, meats, frozen...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. -- Supervalu, Minneapolis, stands to gain its first retail toehold in southern California with the pending acquisition of Sav-U Foods, a 21-unit limited-assortment chain here being sold by Fleming Cos., Oklahoma City...
Supervalu's Dabill Sets Retirement Date ecutive vice president and president of the retail services and corporate strategies group at Supervalu here, will retire after 34 years with the company.Dabill's retirement is effective Oct. 1. Until a...