Independents / Regional Grocers

NEW YORK - Excess capacity - too many stores to serve too few consumers - remains one of the industry's biggest challenges, but some easing may be on the horizon, according to participants in SN's 11th annual Financial Analysts' Roundtable here.The sale of stores by Albertsons LLC will certainly help reduce capacity, John Heinbockel, vice president of Goldman Sachs here, said. "It would seem unlikely

byElliot Zwiebach