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...