As long as the nation's economy stays in dire straits, savings on fuel and food will remain a critical rallying point for supermarket chains in 2009. Despite an 11-cent jump in the second week of January of the...
Ohio retailers are confronting cost increases on many fronts, including rising taxes levied by the debt-ridden state government. One such tax is the commercial activity tax, or CAT, which the Ohio Grocers Association...
Kurt Jaeger is an independent operator who has benefited from the economic downturn with the sale of 37 Minyard Food Stores stores earlier this year to Grocers Supply Co., Houston. The softening economy was partly to...
ARLINGTON, Va. The National Grocers Association has taken steps to ensure it has a strong voice in the future of the food industry, said Thomas K. Zaucha, who said he is looking at 2010 as a possible retirement year...
What looks like the worst of times for the independent grocery sector unemployment at a 15-year high, commercial credit markets locked, rising operational costs and shoppers trading down and not filling their pantries...
Independents are facing intense price pressure as the recession propels shoppers to low-price retailers. David Livingston, managing partner, DJL Research, Pewaukee, Wis., who consults with many small-town grocers...
Neither a struggling economy, an activity-use state tax on sales, new competition, nor Hurricane Ike can keep Howard's Management Group here from posting year-end sales increases. Although he declined to reveal...
Times have changed when it comes to independents obtaining loans. While credit is available, borrowing money will be more costly and the terms tougher, said Mike Novak, vice president of commercial lending at National...
The biggest challenge for independent grocers in 2009 will be their ability to control rising costs while maintaining profits, according to a recent poll of National Grocers Association members. The poll, which was...
The formula for growth for K.V. Mart Co. usually has meant one retailer's loss and another one's gain. The company's newly opened store, Buy Low Market, a hybrid price-impact format, illustrates how the company has...
