Gallery: All is well at ShopRite
Village Super Market’s new ShopRite store in Morristown, N.J., illustrates many of the health and wellness attributes that made the Wakefern Food Corp. cooperative the recipient of SN’s annual Whole Health Enterprise award.
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Gallery: The fastest growing food retailers
SN analyzed 15 of the fastest-growing food retailers in terms of unit count from among its list of the Top 75 Retailers and Wholesalers in North America, which SN published in January. These operators have been expanding their unit count primarily without the use of acquisition.
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Gallery: Snack trends from NCA Sweets & Snacks Expo
The 2014 Sweets & Snacks Expo presented by the National Confectioners Association was expected to bring together in Chicago 15,000 manufacturers, buyers and industry leaders.
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Gallery: Roche Bros. opens Brothers Marketplace
Roche Bros. opened the first store in a new banner, Brothers Marketplace, in Weston, Mass., on May 18. Dubbed a “next generation community market,” the store hopes to take advantage of consumers’ growing interest in where their food comes from.
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Gallery: Candy trends from NCA Sweets & Snacks Expo
The 2014 Sweets & Snacks Expo presented by the National Confections Association in Chicago brought together 650 manufacturers from around the world displaying their hottest new products and continuing favorites.
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Ahold rolls out price, merchandising improvements
Ahold said Wednesday it plans to invest more heavily in the quality and merchandising of its fresh assortment, in employee training and in targeted price reductions in all of its U.S. divisions.
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The Fresh Market not worried about price competition
The Fresh Market isn’t particularly worried about the more competitive price positioning of Whole Foods Market, executives said in an earnings conference call Thursday.
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6 Reid's closing for Bi-Lo conversion
Bi-Lo Holdings said that six Reid’s grocery stores in South Carolina would close and would reopen June 6 under the Bi-Lo banner.
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Gallery: Multicultural consumers present significant sales opportunity
Asian Americans, African Americans and Latinos possess close to $3 trillion in spending power, but a portion of it remains untapped by marketers who fail to understand what motivates these consumers, said panelists during the Nielsen webinar “Demystifying Multicultural Consumers.”
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Gallery: A ‘Timelion’ of Food Lion designs
Food Lion is accompanying its newly launched “fresh, easy and affordable” strategy with a refreshed logo.
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