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In Pittsburgh, there's a new Giant Eagle that isn't so giant. In Baltimore, they shrank a Super Fresh to one-fifth of its typical size. Out West, supermarkets are lacing up the gloves to face a new contender that's well below their weight class...
More retailers are gathering insights about shoppers and their behavior in supermarkets, and using the knowledge to customize assortments, improve the shopping experience and increase sales. Marsh Supermarkets is doing all of that and more. In an...
Roanoke's newest supermarket is one of Richmond's oldest. Ukrop's Super Markets, a Richmond, Va., fixture for 70 years, moved 200 miles west at the end of June to open its first store in Roanoke, which has become, right off the bat, one of the...
CHICAGO Driving sales up in a mature category is no easy task, but The Perishables Group, partnering with a large mid-Atlantic supermarket chain and the U.S. Potato Board, did just that. The partners in the project, aiming to reinvent the potato...
PERISHABLES, PROMOTIONS BOOST WEIS' 2Q SALES Perishable department sales growth and aggressive promotions helped grow sales by 3% during the fiscal second quarter that ended June 30 for Weis Markets, the retailer said. Sales of $578.8 million...
Greater product innovation, a shift in targeted markets and minimal sales impact will result from collective pledges announced earlier this month by supporters of the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, industry sources said. The...
Capitalizing on the frenzied excitement known as Potter mania, supermarkets worked merchandising magic as the final Harry Potter book went on sale July 21. Retailers including Meijer, Publix, Stop & Shop, Wegmans, Kroger and Wal-Mart made sure the...
Buying groceries from online outlets has become commonplace for many time-strapped shoppers, but where does this leave traditional retailers? A number of chains have launched their own websites or partnered with a big Internet presence such as...
Buzz-enducing beverages present lucrative opportunities for supermarkets. But for many retailers, the energy drink deluge is amounting to caffeine overload. We are bombarded with new energy drinks all the time, and only a few of them are surviving...