CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Ahold moved last week to expand its U.S. operations with the acquisition of Red Food Stores here.Ahold, based in Zaandam, Netherlands, said it intends to acquire the 55-store supermarket chain from Promodes, a French company...
Micromerchandising is entering a new era of high technology and even higher efficiency.With retailers increasingly able to tap into their own advanced point-of-sale data bases and then turn to third-party firms to supply critical information and...
MINNEAPOLIS -- As part of its fiscal 1995 capital-expenditure program, Supervalu here said it expects to spend about $150 million to support its independent-retailer customers.e capital budget totaled $450 million in fiscal 1994, which ends today...
Safeway Names Eastern Managerst week named James Donald executive senior vice president and manager of its Eastern division based here. Donald was director of Wal-Mart's Supercenter operations.He succeeds Bill McDown, who retired Feb. 25 as senior...
ST. LOUIS -- The Wetterau family is moving back into the food business with a new venture that will include retailing and licensing.More than a year after Supervalu, Minneapolis, acquired 123-year-old Wetterau Inc., Hazelwood, Mo., the great...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Supervalu has doubled the number of companies it is communicating with through electronic data interchange in the last two years, and the wholesaler-retailer is far from through yet."We went from 500 to 1,000 partners in the last...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- In conjunction with its expansion in its primary market area, P&C Food Markets plans to enlarge its nonfood presence in new and expanded stores here over the next 12 to 18 months."The new stores will offer expanded product lines...
CHICAGO -- Store brands gaining on nationally branded grocery items?That notion is "dead wrong," according to C. Manly Molpus, president and chief executive officer of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, which launched a vigorous defense of...
WOMELSDORF, Pa. -- The deli department at Boyer's Supervalu here took merchandising to new lengths on Super Bowl Sunday.A nine-member team of employees built a 100-foot submarine sandwich in view of customers and then proceeded to sell it by the...
GLEN BURNIE, Md. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., has acquired the former Leedmark hypermarket here and will use two-thirds of the space for a Wal-Mart discount store.in a 65,000-square-foot section of the building. Wal-Mart will use about...