EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Shaw's Supermarkets here celebrated Super Bowl Sunday with pre-game savings in the grocery department.Supermarket circulars during the last week of January carried a full-page insert, with ...
WESTBURY, N.Y. -- King Kullen Grocery Co. here has added its own brand of Wild by Nature vitamins, herbs and supplements to the pharmacy or, in some units, to the health and beauty care aisle.SN visited a unit in...
Upscale items continue to be the growth segment in the category of oils and vinegars, retailers say, at least in some parts of the country.Sales in the balsamic-vinegar category increased 5% in 1999 to $31.5 million...
While retailers are battling the restaurant industry for "a greater share of stomach" on the supermarket periphery, they are finding that restaurant brands are a boon to business in the grocery aisle.The number of...
Some retailers are beginning to "think outside the box" when it comes to marketing private-label grocery products, but trend watchers say that supermarkets could be doing a lot more to enhance the image of their store...
Widespread interest in natural food has not only changed the way mainstream supermarkets do business, it has also permanently altered the "health-food store." No longer sole domain of the Birkenstock set, these...
While cereals still rule in the breakfast aisle, some retailers are currently cross merchandising them, along with other morning foods, elsewhere in the store to garner additional sales.For example, Rick Hagan, sales...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- A strong focus on Center Store is one key strategy that Spartan is using to ensure its profitability and competitiveness into the next century."We are very bullish on Center Store," said Kevin...
NEW YORK -- The site of a former Key Food unit here has metamorphosed into a new kind of grocery store -- an Indian-American supermarket.Patel Bros. is located on a bustling street lined with retail businesses -- sari...
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- A new Sedano's here is providing Hispanic specialty groceries to a growing number of middle-class Latinos moving north from Miami.The 36,000-square-foot unit on Pines Boulevard, just west of...
