Supermarkets are improving the shape of Center Store with a healthy dose of natural and organic products and services. Close to 95% of food retailers polled as part of SN's fourth annual survey of Center Store performance plan on bolstering their...
In recent years, criminal groups have selected the retail industry as a relatively low-risk/high-profit target in what has become known as organized retail crime, or ORC. Using teams of shoplifters, ORC groups pilfer high-value products like baby...
Top 75 North American Food Retailers Supervalu and Metro both jumped in this year's Top 75 following acquisitions Supervalu, which moved up four places to No. 5, acquired 1,124 stores in the Albertsons breakup, while Metro, which purchased A&P's...
Food retailing stocks continued to reward investors in 2006 as operators saw the benefits of the strategic initiatives they rolled out during the past several years. Successful efforts to differentiate, combined with other factors that helped them...
Kroger Co., Cincinnati, remained the industry's leading retailer at the dawn of the new millennium, but its hold on the No. 1 spot on SN's Top 75 list is tenuous at best.w supercenters and convert existing discount stores to supercenters at a rate...
Many companies changed positions on SN's list of the Top 75 retailers and wholesalers in 1994, and many of the moves were fueled by mergers and acquisitions.sly No. 13) moved the new Fleming to the second-largest company, behind only Kroger Co...
