Shaner: Haggen aiming for 'white space' between conventional and specialty
As Haggen enters Southern California as a completely unknown entity to most consumers, it believes it can fill a niche that is not being filled there — “the key white space between conventional retailers and upscale organic and gourmet stores” — Bill Shaner, CEO of the company’s new Pacific Southwest division, told SN in an exclusive interview.
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Retailers could feel Kraft-Heinz merger 'pinch'
While there have been other big mergers in the CPG industry, the Kraft Foods Group and H.J. Heinz Co. deal is a game changer.
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Fresh & Easy shuttering stores to advance c-store plan
The decision by Fresh & Easy to rationalize its store base will help it move closer to its goal of creating a unique fresh-food convenience store, the company said.
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Bristol Farms names Caldecott president, COO
'They turned the Albertsons green'
Editor Jon Springer details a local shoppers' impressions of one of the first Albertsons stores to convert to a Haggen.
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Save Mart's Bob Piccinini dies
Funeral services are pending for Bob Piccinini, chairman of Save Mart Supermarkets, Modesto, Calif., who died last week at age 73.
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Muller on Bottom Dollar: 'We are not a discounter'
Delhaize threw everything it had at making the Bottom Dollar concept work before concluding that discounting “wasn’t in our DNA,” CEO Frans Muller told SN in a recent interview.
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Fresh & Easy 3.0? Are they finally getting it right this time?
I revisited one of the Las Vegas stores to check in and look at progress. A number of stores in the Las Vegas area had been remodeled, but the store I visited still had some operational bugs.
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Trader Joe's time-lapse video shows store construction
A time-lapse video provides an inside look at construction of a new Trader Joe’s store in Schaumburg, Ill., over seven months.
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Haggen mailer touts 'one-shop,' price
To introduce itself to consumers who have never heard of it, Haggen has adopted the slogan, “Hello Haggen. Goodbye Hassle.”
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