NEW YORK -- Pathmark's planned $15 million store here will not only double East Harlem's food retailing square footage -- it will create jobs, lower food prices and improve the neighborhood's economic health, said...
ROSEVILLE, Calif. -- Two union locals representing some 8,700 supermarket employees in northern California Safeway and Lucky stores approved a new, four-year contract last week -- seven months before it was due to...
CHICAGO -- What does a full-service store need to succeed in a competitive market? According to an SN consumer straw poll, it must be all-inclusive enough to please the heavy shopper with one-stop convenience.But it...
WASHINGTON -- Although the Teamsters here claimed victory last week following the resolution of the 15-day strike against Atlanta-based United Parcel Service, supermarket industry observers contacted by SN did not...
WESTBURY, N.Y. -- Police were summoned here last week to cool off rising tensions between union employees and nonunion summer help at the King Kullen Grocery Co. warehouse.While there were no arrests, one summer...
WESTPORT, Conn. -- Local 371 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union here has accused Stew Leonard's Dairy Store of illegally impeding attempts to unionize employees at the company's Norwalk, Conn., store.In a...
TROY, Mich. -- Kmart here has chosen retired Supervalu executive Laurence L. (Larry) Anderson to head its Super Kmart operations.The company said Anderson will become president of Super Kmart and executive vice...
ATLANTA -- The strike by 185,000 United Parcel Service employees apparently had little effect on the shipment of food to retailers last week, but mail-order food companies had to make some adjustments in their...
EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- A two-day labor strike at Shaw's Supermarkets here -- the first ever in the company's 137-year history -- ended last week when labor and management reached an agreement over the sharing of...
Summer sales are turning out to be a lot like the weather -- there are a lot of hopes for a good season, but no guarantees.Just as a sudden thunderstorm can ruin a picnic, variables like the local economy, competition...
