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MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu plans to expand its Save-A-Lot limited-assortment store format by about 105 stores in the current fiscal year, according to Michael Wright, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Supervalu here.This includes...
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Community Cash Stores here plans to add high-margin bath shop sections chainwide after cleaning up nicely on a pilot program at 10 of its units. The 27-store retailer will use 4-foot sections in an effort to win more general...
ZAANDAM, Netherlands -- Ahold here reported increased sales and earnings for the first quarter ended April 24.e sales rose 7.8% to $4.4 billion. Ahold's U.S. sales rose 5.5% to $2.1 billion.Currency conversions were made at the rate of 1.93...
ATLANTA -- In a bid to improve pet aisle sales, Kroger Co.'s Atlanta division here initiated a weekly pet care supplement in conjunction with a local newspaper.The piece contains editorial content accompanied by pet-oriented advertising. Among the...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here has decided to consolidate distribution volume in the Northeast by transferring wholesale grocery business from the former Sweet Life facility in Northboro, Mass., to the former Wetterau distribution facility in...
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- As the new president and chief executive officer of Red Food Stores here, Marshall Collins is studying that chain's business and is developing strategies.But Collins isn't giving up his day job. He's still president and CEO...
Chattanooga, Tenn. -- With its acquisition of Red Food Stores here, Ahold is breaking new ground in the way it absorbs and operates U.S. supermarket companies.The Zaandam, Netherlands-based giant, whose six U.S. supermarket chains now account for...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Seeking to speed up its weekly newspaper circular production and reduce costs, Kroger Co. has signed up for a comprehensive new software program that will be completely on-line by October, a company official said.Kroger has...
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. -- Food brokers who gathered here for a nonfood conference heard a "call to arms" to embrace the Efficient Consumer Response movement and its many components."Willy Loman is dead," said Bob Schwarze, president of the...
CHICAGO -- Proponents of in-store marketing expect it to gain stature in a post-mass market as improving information drives the tailoring of programs to specific retail environments."The mass market is dead," said Burt Flickinger III, a principal...