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NEW YORK Supervalu is planning a one-week sales event with a major supplier at 3,400 stores in the coming months, Craig Herkert, president and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis-based company, said here Wednesday at the Bank of America...
The laws of supermarket economics bent under the pressures of 2009. The formulas that had reliably driven profits for years were tested by the extraordinary environment of deep recession, high unemployment and product-price deflation. Traditional...
MISSISSAUGUA, Ontario — Walmart Canada here said Friday that it had reduced prices on staple food items at its stores in Western Canada including milk, eggs, bread and butter.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. — NARMS International here said Friday it has launched a
new online training center for marketing representatives, called
NARMScertifyU.
Creative advertising can be an effective sales booster, a pair of representatives from Western Michigan University told a workshop during last month's National Grocers Association annual convention here. The speakers were Frank Gambino, director...
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 are growing at more than four...
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 segment appeared ready to flame out...