Check out our new daily podcast featuring editors from Supermarket News & CSP Daily News. The Retail Daily provides a quick update of the day’s top headlines from the grocery and c-store industries.
Sign up for the Supermarket News Daily newsletter.
Retail store managers who are thoroughly trained to understand the impact they can have on profitability can have a lot of influence over the company's performance, according to Deborah Foster, manager of training and development at Kroger's Co.'s...
The ongoing rash of retail store closures affecting retailers from Circuit City to Value City is providing supermarkets with more options for expansion and, for those who dare, the opportunity for real estate bargains. Observers contacted by SN...
Sweetbay said it plans to close seven Florida stores in the next six to eight weeks, although the chain's Brussels-based parent company, Delhaize Group, noted that it was pleased overall with the banner's positive trends. While most Sweetbay...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. For Tesco's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, imitation, as the saying goes, may be a form of flattery. Since Fresh & Easy opened the first of its small-format stores in November 2007, several other food retailers have launched...
Although its entry there has been delayed, Fresh & Easy said it is still planning to expand into Northern California, perhaps as early as the second half of this year. It is building a distribution center in Stockton, Calif., to supply those...
A single-store operator in Iowa has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court here against Supervalu and C&S Wholesale Grocers, charging them with conspiracy to allocate territories, causing prices for goods and services to escalate and thereby...
Despite the exceptional success it has enjoyed with loyalty cards in its home market in the United Kingdom, Tesco will continue to steer clear of them at the 110 small-format Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market stores it has opened in three Western U...
Wal-Mart Stores here on Friday said it has completed a tender offer for 58.2% of the outstanding shares of Distribucion y Servico (D&S), the largest food retailer in Chile.
The U.S. Court of Appeals here on Friday threw out Whole Foods' lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission in which the Austin, Texas-based natural-food retailer was seeking to bar the FTC from holding an administrative trial on the legality of...