MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here agreed last week to acquire Cincinnati-based Hyper Shoppes, the parent company of Bigg's.Supervalu said the purchase would give it "a greater presence" in the rapidly growing supercenter market.Bigg's operates five...
Retailers testing an advertising device installed in the floor tiles in stores say that it is stimulating sales in the dry grocery aisles.The ad vehicle -- a 2-foot by 2-foot clear scratch-resistant plastic sheet that covers a four-color "magazine...
MACON, Ga. -- Heavy rains and flooding caused disruptions in supermarket shopping patterns last week here and in other parts of southwestern Georgia.Like an eerie rerun of last summer's flooding in the Midwest, operators in the Deep South find...
WASHINGTON -- Whatever innovations retailers undertake to increase productivity are bound to fail unless employees on the front line are made part of the process, according to Randall Mott, vice president and chief information officer at Wal-Mart...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here will focus this year's corporate retail store expansion program on its Cub Foods and Save-A-Lot formats, according to Michael Wright, chairman, president and chief executive officer.add 20 new corporate Save-A-Lot...
ATLANTA -- The bakery departments of at least two supermarket chains have tied in to an antidrug campaign by handing out free cookies bearing a "Just Say No" message.The effort is being conducted in conjunction with "Just Say No" International...
Spartan Appoints 2 New Senior VPs Stores here has named two new senior vice presidents.Spartan, a leading cooperative wholesaler, late last month named Chuck Fosnaugh senior vice president of business development, a new title. He had been vice...
No frozen food department is an island, especially when it comes to promotions. Indeed, if you stuck today's most successful retail and wholesale philosophies for frozen food promotion under a microscope, you'd be likely to see them mutating...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Frozen food promotions have gained a fresh sense of importance, and urgency, at Spartan Stores here since mass merchandisers started casting for supermarket sales in the cooperative wholesaler's market area.rtan's response...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Spartan Stores will begin a drop-ship program next month to assure that its 500 retail members receive timely deliveries of key merchandise categories that are subject to fashion-trend influences.General merchandise...