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Albertsons LLC has rolled out more than 100 items in the O Organics line of products. Toddler cereal bars, canned tomatoes, soup, juice, pasta, pasta sauce and peanut butter are among the offerings at 240 stores. The rollout doesn't include...
Associated Wholesale Grocers began supplying most of the remaining members of Affiliated Foods Southwest last week after entering into an agreement with the Little Rock, Ark.-based member-owned cooperative to purchase certain assets from it...
Save-a-Lot, a division of Supervalu here, has selected collaborative order management and transportation optimization solutions from iTradeNetwork, Pleasanton, Calif., to help procure fresh products such as produce, flowers and meat. The
Supervalu here said Wednesday that Jeff Noddle would step down as chief executive officer and that Wal-Mart and Albertsons veteran Craig Herkert would succeed him.
It's hard to predict the future. That's why no one could forecast that Future-Connect, the long-awaited event from Food Marketing Institute scheduled for this week in Dallas, would be postponed indefinitely because of travel concerns related to...
The economic downturn is creating some opportunities for food retailers to bolster their staffs with new hires, supermarket operators told SN. In addition, as retailers gather this week for Food Marketing Institute's first FutureConnect leadership...
Supervalu plans to conduct major remodels at between 75 and 80 locations in the current fiscal year, down about 50% from last year, Jeff Noddle, chairman and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis-based company, told Barclays Capital's annual...
[IN SECOND-HALF 2008] Below are financial results for the 10 largest supermarket chains with public equity or debt. Although reporting dates vary, the chart represents sales, operating income and comparable-store sales for the two quarters most...
THE STAND-ALONE WELLNESS FORMAT HAS CAUSED MAINSTREAM retailers to take some shaky steps. Two months ago, Chandler, Ariz.-based Bashas' Supermarkets pulled the plug on Ike's Farmers Market, its plucky 35,000-square-foot store built to resemble a...