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Light bulbs are going sky-high at supermarkets.Retailers are stacking them high and building power displays of light bulbs not only to attract impulse sales, but to demonstrate that they can challenge other competitive retail formats -- club...
MILWAUKEE -- Roundy's is completing a major remerchandising of kitchen gadgets and bakeware for 700 retailers it supplies with nonfood products.Sales in gadgets alone have jumped 25% to 30% at stores with the new program, which Roundy's began to...
TAMPA, Fla. -- A change in the ownership of Kash n' Karry Food Stores here may be completed by the end of the chain's fiscal year in August, SN learned last week.A spokeswoman for Leonard Green & Partners -- a Los Angeles investment group that...
Richfood Appoints Director of Saleshas named Jeff Bartolacci director of chain sales, a new position.Bartolacci was general manager of the wholesaler's northern division, which is based in Glen Burnie, Md. He reports to Joe Della Noci, vice...
BRNO, Czech Republic -- Ahold has bought 11 supermarket outlets through a privatization project in this country's North Moravia region. The 11 stores were previously leased by Ahold. They will be converted into Mana supermarkets, the store format...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Will Sam's Clubs and Wal-Mart Supercenters soon be dotting the Canadian landscape?That's the prediction of a number of observers in the wake of Wal-Mart's acquisition of 120 Woolco discount stores in Canada in late January.Wal...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here has signed separate agreements with two Asian retailers to supply private-label products overseas through the export division of Sam's Club. One agreement calls for Wal-Mart to supply apparel and other...
Riser to Acquire 3 Acme UnitsRiser Foods here has agreed to acquire three Cleveland-area Acme stores from Fred W. Albrecht Grocery Co., Akron, Ohio, for an undisclosed amount.The acquisition is expected to be completed in May.All three stores will...
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Publix Super Markets is doing more than just whistling "Dixie" as it continues its march north from Florida.The giant chain, which spent its first 62 years becoming a dominant factor in the Sunshine State, is bursting out of its...
ST. LOUIS -- Save-A-Lot here, a division of Supervalu, intends to acquire all 30 Texas T Discount Grocery stores owned and operated by Shop N' Sav, Grand Prairie, Texas, for an undisclosed amount.The proposed acquisition, announced last week...