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TOKYO -- The American store banner IGA is expected to be on some 250 stores in Japan by 1995, Thomas S. Haggai, IGA chairman and chief executive officer, told SN Global. Independent Grocers Alliance is an organization that supports and franchises...
Vons Inner-City Unit Is Openeds., Arcadia, Calif., opened an inner-city store here last week as part of its $100 million commitment to build stores in understored urban areas.The 45,000-square-foot conventional supermarket is the first of a...
BERLIN (FNS) -- Consumer goods from former East Germany are proving remarkably resilient three years into German reunification. Despite the onslaught of privatization and market forces, some are thriving, thanks to relaunches, redesigns and new...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu last week said it will close its Bloomington, Ind., wholesale food division early this spring. The move is part of Supervalu's consolidation of facilities since its acquisition of St. Louis-based Wetterau in October 1982...
PLANO, Texas -- To fix what's wrong with the supermarket industry and cut costs substantially, retailers must begin with their own corporate structure.The ability to boost efficiency hinges first and foremost on retailers getting their own house...
LONDON (FNS) -- Price/Costco -- the American membership-club operator formed last fall with the merger of Price Co. and Costco Wholesale Corp. -- has skyrocketed to a $15 billion behemoth in the United States through the success of its warehouse...
CANCUN, Mexico -- The average Mexican family spends the equivalent of $87 (U.S.) per week on groceries, compared with $80 for the average U.S. family, according to results of a consumer trends study in Mexico conducted on behalf of the Food...
DALLAS -- Tom Thumb Food & Drug here has instituted a new merchandising program called Multi Buys, which offers shoppers discounts if they purchase a specified number of grocery and frozen food items.In its early weeks the program heavily...
Reading the outstanding inaugural edition of SN Global (Oct. 11, 1993), I felt I was looking out a new window on the world of supermarketing.It transported me back several years to a meeting with management expert Peter Drucker. The Food Marketing...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Winn-Dixie Stores, based here, offered free family packs of cookies in its Atlanta division just before Christmas.The cookie notice, dominating a quarter-page space in the division's ad circular, was part of a promotion for...