CHICAGO – The retail industry is poised for another year of mergers and acquisitions, most likely led by strategic buyers, according to the BDO Retail Compass Survey of CFOs from BDO USA....More

Harris Teeter earlier this month disclosed that it had been approached by private equity investors interested in acquiring the 208-store, upscale chain....More

Super Bowl XLVII might be history come Monday, but chicken wings and craft beer remain on a winning streak that will carry them right through the rest of 2013....More

WASHINGTON — Congress last week agreed to a last-minute deal to increase taxes on high earners to avoid the “fiscal cliff” of broader tax hikes and spending cuts....More

R-22, the predominant supermarket refrigerant that is targeted for elimination by the government by 2020, still accounts for 39.7% of the refrigerants (by weight) used by eight food retailers across 2,445 stores, according to a new SN survey....More

Coupon redemption declined by almost 23% in the third quarter of 2012, compared with the same period last year, according to a report from Inmar, a technology company based in Winston-Salem, N.C....More

Projections for holiday spending are all over the map this year, with some projecting gains over year-ago results because of the slowly improving economy, while other predict consumers might be more cautious this year because of looming uncertainty over the so-called “fiscal cliff” and the potential for tax increases....More

Shoppers largely choose the same candies to hand out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween that they buy for themselves throughout the year....More