Supermarket investors watched industry stocks continue to race ahead in the first half of 2007, but there may be a few speed bumps ahead. After a six-month span in which 18 of the 26 food retailing and wholesaling...
Independent supermarket operators in the Detroit and Oklahoma City markets are expanding their presence by capitalizing on downsizing efforts by two large chains. In Detroit, several independent customers of Spartan...
PHOENIX Albertsons stores in this market have discontinued the use of loyalty cards, the company said. The 78 Albertsons stores in this region, which are operated by Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons LLC, will instead...
ETraditional supermarket operators showed strong sales growth in 2006, but they will still lose share to nontraditional operators during the next five years, according to a presentation last week by The Food Institute...
BOULDER, Colo. If Whole Foods doesn't buy Wild Oats, it might be an attractive target for someone else, analysts told SN last week. Wild Oats Markets, based here, has an agreement to be acquired by Austin, Texas-based...
Kroger Co. said last week that it had agreed to acquire 20 Farmer Jack stores in the Detroit market from A&P for an undisclosed price. The acquisition, which is slated to close next month, had long been expected. In...
Associated Wholesale Grocers last week said it would begin supplying the Texas Division of Albertsons LLC and that four of its distribution customers would acquire 23 Albertsons stores in Oklahoma. This will add...
Whole Foods Market launched a verbal volley in its battle with the Federal Trade Commission over the chain's proposed acquisition of Wild Oats Markets last week with a 14,000-word blog post on Whole Foods' website...
Kroger Co. said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire 20 Farmer Jack stores in the Detroit market from A&P for an undisclosed price. The acquisition, which is expected to close in July, had long been anticipated.
Seven locals of United Food and Commercial Workers Union said they have set noon on June 21 as the deadline for completion of a new contract, with plans to begin scheduling meetings on June 24 at which they will ask...