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  • May 22, 2013
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    Easter Sales Benefit Spartan in Q4

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Spartan Stores here Wednesday said the early Easter holiday and new wholesale accounts helped the company post sales gains and better-than-expected earnings in the fiscal fourth quarter....More
  • May 22, 2013
    Article

    PriceRite Fills Void in Conn. Town

    DANBURY, Conn. – The PriceRite division of Wakefern Food Corp., Keasbey, N.J., opened its 52nd store here today, filling a void left upon the closing of a Waldbaum store at this location more than a year ago....More
  • May 22, 2013
    Article

    Cool Weather Chills Target Results

    MINNEAPOLIS — Target Corp. here on Wednesday said poor weather and tax-burdened shoppers led to soft sales and earnings in the fiscal first quarter....More
  • May 22, 2013
    Article

    Food Lion to Give Neighborhood Free Groceries

    SALISBURY, N.C. – Food Lion is asking shoppers to guess the next stop of Operation Grocery Drop....More
  • May 22, 2013
    Article

    Market Basket in Deal for Factory Site

    LYNN, Mass. — A long-abandoned factory building here will soon be the site of a new Market Basket store, officials said this week....More
  • May 22, 2013
    Article

    Ahold's ItemMaster, Brandbank Form Partnership

    SKOKIE, Ill. — ItemMaster, the digital brand image and content provider created by Peapod here, has formed a partnership with Brandbank, a United Kingdom-based counterpart....More
  • May 22, 2013
    Article

    Big Y Tests Bread Making Machine

    NORTH BRANFORD, Conn. — Big Y Foods debuted a machine at a store here that churns out fresh rolls all day, the retailer announced on its Facebook page....More
  • May 22, 2013
    Article

    Jack Lewis, Industry Researcher, Dies

    ESCONDIDO, Calif. — John E. “Jack” Lewis, who led the creation of two iconic research studies on supermarket retailing, died last week from old age....More
  • May 21, 2013
    Article

    Supermarket 2012 Sales Lagged Inflation: Report

    SAN ANTONIO — Sixty percent of food retailers surveyed said they had higher customer counts in 2012, according to a new report from Food Marketing Institute, although average sales growth was below inflation....More
  • May 21, 2013
    Article

    Family Dollar Cites Pressure on Core Customers 1

    LONDON — Although Family Dollar Stores sees signs of recovery in the economy, "the averages are misleading when it comes to our consumer population," Mary A. Winston, the chain's chief financial officer, said Tuesday in an analyst presentation here....More
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