SAN ANTONIO -- Putting Efficient Consumer Response into practice is liable to give supermarket operators withdrawal pains as they give up forward buying, said Ron Lunde, a former retailer and now senior vice president of trade relations at Leo...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu's future is all about size.That's the thinking behind Michael W. Wright's strategy for the nation's largest food wholesaler and 14th largest corporate food retailer, as detailed in an interview with SN here.Wright...
CHICAGO -- Kroger doubled the sales of refrigerated puddings and pasta products at three of its Cincinnati marketing area stores by cross-merchandising the products at grocery aisles.The sales results surfaced in a limited test of the cross...
Supervalu is putting more effort into its growing corporate retail business. It is experimenting with additional formats, such as this Apple Valley, Minn., Cub unit, above. That store incorporates an expanded presentation of fresh foods, in...
CHICAGO -- Efficient Consumer Response may be the roadmap but, ultimately, each retailer and wholesaler will have to find its own route to more efficient operations, said executives from some of the trailblazers of ECR.The companies ranged from...
Sales to consumers concerned about reducing fat and cholesterol are giving a new healthy glow to an ancient snack: the pretzel.According to Information Resources Inc., Chicago, supermarket scanning data for the 52-week period ended Jan. 2, 1994...
Two VP Positions Added by Supervaluinneapolis, has named Steven R. Nudson executive vice president and Robert S. Sieger vice president of finance at its Sweet Life Foods subsidiary here. Both are new positions.The two appointments were made in...
CHICAGO -- IGA has made its first foray into the growing ethnic foods market with a Mexican-Hispanic line of grocery products under the IGA Celebracion label.The line of 21 Mexican grocery products includes salsa, picante sauce, tortilla chips...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- In the pending battle over health-care reform, Wal-Mart Stores and Kmart Corp. will be organized labor's retail symbols of why employers should be required to help pay for universal health care.The United Food & Commercial...
ZAANDAM, the Netherlands -- Ahold here said last week it paid $124 million to complete the previously announced acquisition of Red Food Stores, Chattanooga, Tenn.s through its U.S. holding company Pramer. The 55-store chain had annual sales of ...