CHICAGO - Rising credit card interchange fees are among the top concerns of food retailers, according to supermarket executives interviewed at the Food Marketing Institute show here last week."The banks are playing...
CHICAGO - Strong store managers who are able to clearly articulate the company's goals to their workers and drive performance that exceeds projections should be rewarded and empowered, retailers said at the Food...
MINNEAPOLIS - Supervalu here last week selected a mix of talent from within its own organization and from Albertsons' existing staff to run the combined companies as they close in on their merger.Analysts said the...
CHICAGO - Wal-Mart Stores is becoming more responsive to customers at the local level, the chain's chief marketing officer said at a meeting for marketing professionals here last week."Retail will be won and lost...
It's a new era for food retailing workers as much as it is for their employers.The role of the union in the supermarket workplace has evolved, and employers have been forced to rethink their strategies for...
WASHINGTON - Sweet home, Chicago?Maybe not for much longer, if Food Marketing Institute's long-range planning committee has its way.The committee was scheduled to propose at FMI's board meeting on Saturday that the...
MIDLAND PARK, N.J. - Flush with cash from the divestiture of its Canadian operations, A&P hopes to remake many of its stores to look like the one it recently remodeled here.The 42,000-square-foot store, which was...
MINNEAPOLIS - Nash Finch here is in a prime position to grow its business and continue to pursue acquisitions, the company's new president and chief executive officer told SN.Alec Covington, 49, a longtime veteran of...
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Tops Markets here said it would not convert any more of its supermarkets to the Martin's Super Food Store banner, but would continue to operate four of the five stores it has already converted as...
PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Kings Super Markets is finally off the selling block.After several years of on-again, off-again deals, a group of private investors has agreed to buy the 26-store chain, based here, from its London...