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SWEETWATER, Texas -- Lawrence Bros. Management Services raised prices on its private-label health and beauty care items to better align store-brand pricing with the national brands.The retailer believes the price hike will enhance the value of...
MONTREAL -- Metro-Richelieu here said sales and earnings increased for the fifth consecutive year. In the year ended Sept. 30, net income rose 64.4% to $45.3 million and sales increased 8.1% to $2.3 billion. This year was one week longer than 1994...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- MGM/UA Home Entertainment here has established a new $9.99 line of movies to target supermarket customers. The new Movie Time line will start off with 10 titles on its Feb. 13 street date. It will include titles like "The...
WALDEN, Vt. -- Produce industry associations reacted with alarm to the latest shot fired in an anti-pesticide campaign by the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Inc., based here.nd vegetables" to thousands of deaths.Similar versions of the ad...
DENVER -- Retail meat departments may see even lower beef prices and sharper competition in 1996, perpetuating a condition that persisted throughout last year, according to the National Cattlemen's Association, Englewood, Colo.The association...
Center Store merchandisers are getting aggressive, fighting hard to protect their turf from alternate classes of trade as well as encroaching in-store perimeter departments.That aggressiveness manifesteditself in many ways in 1995. Here are a...
MONTREAL (FNS) -- Metro-Richelieu here and Sobeys, Stellarton, Nova Scotia, each have launched premium house brands.s include hors d'oeuvres, entrees, breads and desserts.Sobeys has introduced 100 of its own Our Best line products to compete with...
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Home delivery orders taken by a new automated telephone system at Barlow Foods here are generating an additional $3,000 to $4,000 in weekly sales.The single-store, upscale retailer, which introduced the program six months ago...
TROY, Mich. -- Kmart Corp. here said it had reached an agreement in principle with bondholders to sidestep the possibility of paying off $548 million in bonds as soon as next month..If Kmart had been forced to pay off the bonds, it could have been...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer Inc. here used a touch of Hollywood glamour in a pet star search contest that generated increased traffic in its pet aisles.The winners will be appearing in pictures -- at least in Meijer ads for pet products -- after...