HOUSTON -- Randalls Food Markets here ushered in the New Year, and its new wine and beer department, with its first-ever chainwide sale on alcoholic products.Randalls ran a four-color double-truck ad the Wednesday...
Acme Markets and Spartan Stores are testing Classmates, a school fund-raising project tied to the sale of coupon books for packaged foods. The books are redeemable exclusively at the participating supermarket...
NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- Kraft Foods here is creating a network of retailer and store-specific customer business teams to sell its $11 billion worth of products and service retailers throughout the country, according to a...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Tops Friendly Markets here will be taking on the upscale President's Choice private-label line within the next few weeks, market sources have told SN.The move would make Tops the second U.S. division...
Supermarket chains are looking for ways to keep their dog food aisles better groomed. They are preening their programs because food stores continue to lose market share to mass merchandisers, "category killer" pet...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Forget that partridge in a pear tree, Tops Friendly Markets here put a new spin on an old carol by offering its shoppers 12 imported, microbrewed and seasonal beers for Christmas.Tops merchandised the...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Tops Markets here has increased water sales chainwide after installing a bottled water dispensing system in each of its units, according to a former Tops executive whose present company supplied the...
SCARSDALE, N.Y. -- Pet owners are shopping more frequently in pet food superstores and discount department stores for their total pet needs, and less often at supermarkets, according to a survey commissioned by the...
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- Wakefern Food Corp. has hired Marketing Management Inc. as a private-label consulting firm to increase the sales and competitiveness of its extensive private-label lines.MMI, based in Fort Worth...
AKRON, Ohio -- Fred W. Albrecht Grocery Co. here teamed up with Keebler Co. in a holiday sales promotion to raise funds for a local children's hospital and distribute teddy bears to sick children at the facility...