BOISE, Idaho (FNS) -- Albertson's here is facing considerable opposition from neighborhood and historic groups over plans to build stores near historic downtown sites in Dallas and New Orleans.In Dallas, the City...
(FNS) -- Retailers are wholeheartedly stamping their image on prepaid calling cards. This has not always been the case. Aligning with suppliers of prepaid phone cards used to be a risky business at a time when an...
Faced with today's challenging business environment, independents probably couldn't be blamed if they concluded there is no way to survive consolidation, the further proliferation of supercenters and the tight labor...
CAMP HILL, Pa. (FNS) -- Supermarket pharmacists fear Rite Aid's proposed acquisition of PCS Health Systems, Scottsdale, Ariz., could lead to anticompetitive practices that would give the drug chain a huge market...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Inner-city supermarket operators may wish they could have a fresh-meals program in their stores, but find a lack of space or customer interest among the biggest stumbling blocks.At Community Pride...
Orlando, Fla. (FNS) -- Winn-Dixie's Orlando division teamed up with the Orange County Public Schools on a "Labels for Learning" promotion during October.Winn-Dixie encouraged elementary school students to purchase...
(FNS) -- More retailers are moving their internal communications through the Internet, considering it a cost- effective, faster method of exchanging all kinds of information, including electronic data interchange...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Winn-Dixie Stores here used its recall system to immediately notify a preset list of all major media and wire services, following the possible contamination of luncheon meats and hot dogs...
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNS) -- As supermarkets answer consumer demand for more exotic items, retailers will find that frozens fit nicely into their fresh-meals programs, a food-service consultant revealed at the National...
OMAHA, Neb. (FNS) -- Hy-Vee, Harris Teeter and other retailers are switching from black to blue bar-code labels on their fresh-meat packages.The labels are designed to make the meat case look brighter, cleaner and...
