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ATLANTA -- How will supermarket and food-service executives adapt to the continued blurring of the border that separates the two industries?At fast-food chain Churchs Chicken, it means pushing for more home-meal replacement partnerships with such...
Associated's Brewer Steps Downed Food Stores here announced that Stan Brewer has retired as senior vice president of the company.Brewer, 59, joined the cooperative in 1960. He was named to his most recent post, senior vice president, in 1996, with...
NEW YORK -- Among wholesalers, retailers and industry experts, there is disagreement about how effectively supermarkets are capitalizing on the large -- and growing -- market for prescription-to-over-the-counter switch products.Despite stiff...
WASHINGTON -- To deter customers from buying groceries in other types of retail outlets, Supervalu, Minneapolis, will use "solution selling" to develop a meal-solution department in the front end of stores that will merchandise products according...
TROY, Mich. -- Kmart here has chosen retired Supervalu executive Laurence L. (Larry) Anderson to head its Super Kmart operations.The company said Anderson will become president of Super Kmart and executive vice president of the parent company...
Supervalu Taps Accounting Chiefre has appointed Sally McLaughlin to the position of director of retail accounting. McLaughlin joined the wholesaler in 1991 as retail accounting manager for the Minneapolis division. In her new post, she reports to...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here completed its divestiture of Green Bay, Wis.-based ShopKo Stores last Wednesday, raising $305 million in the process. The company said it used the proceeds to repurchase 6.9 million of its own common shares. upervalu...
BALTIMORE -- It's not enough for supermarket companies to say they care about customer service -- owners and operators must set the tone within their organizations.Top executives from King Soopers, Supervalu, Superquinn and Fleming Cos. stressed...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here said improved corporate retail sales led the way to a year of solid growth in fiscal 1997. officer, said corporate retail sales increased 7% while same-store sales increased 2%. The company opened or acquired 50 new...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Lunds here is consolidating its hold on upscale consumers in the Twin Cities in the wake of its acquisition last month of crosstown rival Byerly's.After competing with Byerly's for nearly 30 years, Lunds anticipates the two...