SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- There has long been widespread agreement among supermarket industry insiders that the California workers' compensation insurance system was broken.The question now is whether the law passed by...
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- A strike by supermarket workers in British Columbia that analysts say could cause Safeway here to sell its Canadian operations is scheduled to begin next Monday.United Food and Commercial Workers...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A tug-of-war is being played out between two regional heavyweights here.Industry sources told SN they were uncertain whether Ball's Food Stores here or Hy-Vee, West Des Moines, Iowa, had the...
ABINGDON, Va. -- For K-VA-T here, the name defines the market.The company has 86 Food City stores scattered over the states of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.Although K-VA-T has 16 stores and a No. 2 market share in...
DALLAS -- Fleming here said late last week it was scheduled to close by Aug. 23 on the $400 million sale of its wholesale grocery distribution business to C&S Wholesale Grocers, Brattleboro, Vt.A Fleming spokesman...
ATLANTA -- Awash in a sea of fraudulent coupons apparently distributed over the Internet, several chains in the Southeast last week stopped honoring all downloaded coupons.Atlanta was the center of the storm...
BOULDER, Colo. -- Wild Oats Markets here said last week it will focus its energies on opening as many new stores as it can over the next few years -- 15 to 20 new stores in 2004 and 20 to 25 the following year.During...
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- Fresh Brands here said last week it would not comment on published reports that it was about to conclude a deal with A&P, Montvale, N.J., to acquire all or some of A&P's 23 Milwaukee-area Kohl's...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Penn Traffic Co. here said last week Joseph Fisher, the company's president and chief executive officer, has resigned, further unsettling the company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection...
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- The slow and very private process of Safeway here selling Dominick's Finer Foods exploded last week into a very public battle, with Yucaipa Cos., Los Angeles, the once and would-be future owners...