FLEMING FALLOUT DISRUPTS SUPPLY
DALLAS -- The announcement by Fleming Cos. here that it was considering divesting part or all of its remaining business and shuttering three more divisions
REPORT: FARMER JACK EYES EDLP
DETROIT -- A&P's Farmer Jack division here is planning to convert its stores to an everyday low price, or EDLP, format, according to a local press report
BUILDING A NEW BRAND
PITTSBURGH -- Forging steel is second nature in this rugged city, but can the region's dominant supermarket chain forge a new brand?Giant Eagle is stoking
NEIGHBORHOOD UNITS SCALED BACK
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here last week slightly reduced its projections for new Neighborhood Market stores this year because it is devoting
NASH FINCH SEES COMPS SLIDE 11.7%
MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. here said last week that same-store sales in the fourth quarter of last year fell 11.7% amid a difficult economic and competitive
SAFEWAY TACKLES CENTRALIZATION
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway here said it expects to quickly resolve some of the problems that led to its first-quarter earnings shortfall.In a conference
FMI SEEKS MORE PARTNERS FOR SHOW
CHICAGO -- Food Marketing Institute is "very far along" in discussions with the Snack Food Association, Alexandria, Va., and the Organic Trade Association,
THE FUTURE LOOKS FRESH
In the next two to five years, supermarkets will respond to the growth of alternative formats by expanding their perishables departments, adding in-store
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