Price fluctuations in fresh categories worked to keep pressure on Safeway's margins in 2009, the company said at its annual investors' conference earlier this month. Steve Burd, chairman, president and chief executive...
THE UNUSUAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT of the past year has made some retailers take a new approach to their pricing and promotional strategies, Jon Hauptman, a partner with consulting firm Willard Bishop, Barrington, Ill....
Ahold here last week said deflation, consumers trading down and increased promotional activity pressured fourth-quarter profitability and sales, although the company was able to drive gains at some divisions with a...
ISSAQUAH, Wash. A strong emphasis on consumables categories and an overall value image helped membership club stores Costco Wholesale Corp. here and BJ's Wholesale Club, Natick, Mass., thrive in the economic recession...
QUINCY, Mass. — Stop & Shop here said Sunday that its workers in New England had ratified new labor contracts after negotiations that extended into Saturday...
RANDOLPH, Mass. — United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1445, which had been threatening to call a strike against Stop & Shop, said Friday that it expects to be able to vote on a new offer from the chain on...
Ten years ago, in the year 2000, the food-retailing industry was in a state of upheaval. A wave of consolidation had created supermarket giants with a scale built to rival Wal-Mart, the once-hot Internet-grocery...
Online supermarket shopping will grow by leaps and bounds in the next 10 years, predicted Rick Braddock, the chairman and chief executive officer of online grocer FreshDirect, based here. Online sales of various items...