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MAUMEE, Ohio -- Seaway Food Town here reported a loss and decreased sales for the first quarter ended Nov. 27.rter. Sales fell 5.6% in the quarter to $132.5 million. Same-store sales declined 3.5%.The loss included an extraordinary item of $256...
COMPTON, Calif. -- Ralphs Grocery Co. here is promoting its store-brand Perfect Choice health and beauty care mix through full-page ads that tout a variation on the buy-one-get-one-free merchandising offer.The hard-hitting ads are designed to...
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- A new Christmas dinner package provided a nice surprise for Xtra Super Food Centers here. So did whole, roasted pigs.The dinner -- a picnic pork shoulder with rice and beans -- targeted the Latino community, and it...
MOSCOW -- Supervalu is moving up in Russian retailing circles.Minneapolis-based Supervalu, the largest grocery wholesaler in the United States, has been supplying groceries to LUX Market here since mid-1992. Now its fame has spread south to...
CLEVELAND -- A trade report on how aspects of Efficient Consumer Response will benefit nonfood will be issued at the Food Marketing Institute's general merchandise and health and beauty care conference in St. Louis, Sept. 25.mework of ECR.Council...
Country line-dancing videos are a surprise success for sell-through and rental.The burgeoning popularity of country-and-western music and the proliferation of country dance clubs is driving the market for these tapes, said retailers. It's so...
We've just passed through a period when there was some dimming of the spotlight shining on the Efficient Consumer Response program.That happened, I guess, because a taxing plethora of general information about ECR developed in recent months as a...
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- While the proposed in-home delivery of movies through video-on-demand systems will lure some customers away from video rentals in the future, video retailing will continue to thrive as a side-by-side business.That was the...
LOS ANGELES -- The Video Software Dealers Association's board has decided not to renew the employment contract of its high-profile executive vice president Don Rosenberg in an apparent conflict over "management style."In a surprise announcement in...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Fleming Cos. here is shifting its export venture into high gear.The giant U.S. wholesale-retail company could triple its export volume within the next two or three years and has targeted a wide range of countries for that growth...