How bad can it get for Whole Foods
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When it comes to Whole Foods Market’s legacy business, these days it seems to be all bad news. Participants in SN’s 21st Annual Financial Analysts Roundtable last month discuss what has gone wrong at Whole Foods, and how to fix it.
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One year later, A&P sites still reopening
Nearly a year after A&P shut down and sold its stores in a bankruptcy auction, acquirers are still reopening sites with an eye on reintroducing competition in weary Northeast markets.
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Can 365 save Whole Foods?
The Fresh Market wants to be customers' everyday store
The Fresh Market’s announcement about changes to the retailer’s image and offering is designed to get customers to come to stores more often while maintaining its positioning as a gourmet shopping destination, a company official told SN.
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Key Food CEO: Aggressive buying paying off
A&P stores acquired and reopened over the last year by Key Food Stores Co-operative are running at about 85% of the sales they did prior to their acquisition — around 90% excluding pharmacy — figures CEO Dean Janeway declared evidence of a "really successful" endeavor to aggressively pursue and reopen them.
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Albertsons ID sales flatline under deflation
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Rapid food price deflation led to flat identical-store sales gains in the fiscal second quarter for Albertsons Cos., the retailer said in a recent filing.
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Amazon eyeing up to 2,000 U.S. stores: Report
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Amazon's ambitions in brick-and-mortar grocery continue to come to light, with a report suggesting the Seattle-based virtual retailer envisions operating 20 grocery stores by the end of 2018 and as many as 2,000 in the decade to follow.
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Analysts mull possibility of Kroger buying divested drugstores
The industry is still awaiting the fate of hundreds of Walgreens and Rite Aid stores that need to be sold as a condition of the drugstore megadeal, but those on SN’s Financial Analysts Roundtable were intrigued at speculation that Kroger could be a buyer.
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Gallery: Fresh Market reveals new look
The Fresh Market held grand reopenings for three North Carolina stores — two in Greensboro and one in Winston-Salem — that are the first to receive the retailer’s new look and offering.
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Gristedes-D'Agostino merger still on
A partnership between one-time New York grocery rivals Gristedes and D'Agostino Supermarkets is still on, with a merger of the companies likely to be complete by the end of the year.
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