MEXICO CITY , Mexico (FNS) -- Cifra, Mexico's largest retailer based here, isn't resting on its laurels.While it may have achieved sales of $4.58 billion in 1993, a 15% gain against 1992, the company is continuing to cut costs at the expense of...
WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia (FNS) -- In its 120-store invasion of Canada, Wal-Mart is sidestepping union labor much the way it has in the United States. The Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant earlier this year bought 122 of Canada's 142...
Changes are on the horizon for the bakery departments of Sam's Club and Price/Costco, the country's two leading wholesale clubs.Sam's is adopting an increasing number of bake-off products while Price/Costco is implementing scratch production...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch here expects to become "increasingly active in the retail business," Harold B. Finch Jr., chairman and chief executive officer, said at the annual meeting."In addition to attracting new independent stores to our ...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Homeland Stores here said increased competitive activity contributed to a 3.2% sales decline in the first quarter ended March 26.inary charge of $3.9 million related to debt redemption.Homeland, as reported, has hired outside...
SAN ANTONIO -- Putting Efficient Consumer Response into practice is liable to give supermarket operators withdrawal pains as they give up forward buying, said Ron Lunde, a former retailer and now senior vice president of trade relations at Leo...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- In the pending battle over health-care reform, Wal-Mart Stores and Kmart Corp. will be organized labor's retail symbols of why employers should be required to help pay for universal health care.The United Food & Commercial...
Wal-Mart remains a key benchmark of the competitive pressures retailers face today. The aggressive discounter offers low prices and careful selection on a wide range of products.art and at competing supermarkets. The survey revealed that the tooth...
In the 1960s when I was studying arcane subjects such as industrial engineering and operations research, we spent a great deal of time on EOQ, short for Economic Order Quantity. The primary purpose was to figure out how to minimize the cost of...
BRYANT, Ark. -- Foster's Foods here is making changes in its deli department to gain a competitive edge against other retailers as well as fast-food outlets.The independent is increasing space for the deli by a third, adding a second fryer to be...