Content about Grocery store

January 30, 2013
Nonprofit supermarket aims to address food deserts in Philadelphia area

A hunger relief group serving Philadelphia and surrounding areas has hired a New York-based brand and retail design consultancy to design a prototype nonprofit grocery store to address food deserts.

January 29, 2013
Spartan Stores inks distribution deal with Chief Super Market

Spartan Stores, a regional grocery distributor and retailer, has entered into a distribution agreement with Chief Super Market under which Spartan Stores will be its primary wholesale grocery supplier.

January 28, 2013
Target to launch fresh food departments at nine Detroit stores

Target will dedicate about 10,000 sq. ft. at nine of its stores in the Detroit area to fresh groceries, the mass merchandise chain said Monday.

January 4, 2013
Weis Markets announces 10th round of price freezes

Weis Markets on Friday announced the launch of its 10th round of price freezes, effective in all 163 store locations.

December 19, 2012
Center store sees greater activity, study finds

Revamping the center store could present an opportunity worth more than $440 billion for supermarkets, according to a new study by SymphonyIRI.

December 14, 2012
Spotted by DSN: Target bus stop ad allows mobile gift orders

Commuters in Philadelphia who have forgotten to go holiday shopping may want to head to their nearest bus stop.

December 11, 2012
Harris Teeter donates $550,000 to area food banks

Harris Teeter on Monday announced that more than $550,000 has been donated to local food banks out of the company’s Harvest Feast Food Drive and Donation Card Campaign.

November 27, 2012
Drug store channel of choice for OTC buyers

The majority of OTC purchases are made in chain drug, according to an online survey of more than 900 AccentHealth viewers conducted in September. No fewer than 47% of AccentHealth viewers make their purchases there, followed by mass outlets (33%) and grocery stores (12%). Less than 3% seek out OTC products in the dollar store, local drug store and club store, respectively. And only 1% make that OTC purchase online.

November 2, 2012
Giant Eagle introduces discount format Good Cents to Pittsburgh market

Multiformat food and fuel retailer Giant Eagle will be introducing its first discount format Good Cents Grocery + More to the Pittsburgh market Nov. 4.

November 2, 2012
Sears Holdings taps former OfficeMax exec to lead grocery, drug and Rx business

Sears Holdings has announced that Ryan Vero will join the company as SVP and president of grocery, drug and pharmacy.

October 26, 2012
Expansion of ethnic beauty further illustrates Target's aggressive plans

Target is getting aggressive in a lot of ways. Canada. Big holiday plans. And now a plan to take a greater share of the ethnic beauty business.

October 26, 2012
Hy-Vee, Casey's partner on fuel savings

A supermarket chain and a convenience store chain in the Midwest have launched a program that they said would allow customers to save on gasoline at all their stores.

October 19, 2012
Multichannel shoppers pick the low-hanging fruit, including apples and oranges

With shoppers looking for ways to buy things more conveniently, it's clear that the age of the multichannel consumer is well under way, and retailers would be wise to respond in kind. Many of them have already done so.

According to retail consulting firm Upstream Commerce, convenience ranks at the top of reasons why consumers shop online, and as recent news has shown, this is just as true for supermarkets as it is for anyone else.

October 19, 2012
Supermarkets facing competition as grocery leader

Supermarkets are facing increased competition from dollar stores, according to a new survey from Perception Research Services International.

October 16, 2012
Supermarkets rate high in customer satisfaction, checkouts, cleanliness count

A recent study showed that supermarkets generate high satisfaction among their shoppers. Supermarkets scored an average of 4.47 on a five-point satisfaction scale (where five is the highest), according to the "2012 U.S. Supermarket Experience Study" conducted by the Retail Feedback Group.

October 11, 2012
Giant Eagle locks down prices through the holidays

Giant Eagle on Thursday announced it will help families better manage their grocery budgets by locking low prices through the holidays on hundreds of the items customers purchase most.

October 8, 2012
Category pressures across tobacco, gas could be driving c-stores toward healthier food options

Are macro category pressures across tobacco and gas driving convenience stores toward healthier food options? That's a question raised by a recently published white paper from Nielsen.

October 8, 2012
Kantar Retail survey: Dollar General offers least expensive basket price

Dollar General is the overall basket price leader, delivering a substantial savings to value shoppers, according to Kantar Retail's second annual opening price point survey.

October 1, 2012
Peapod rolls out 'virtual grocery store' concept

An online grocery delivery service is launching "virtual grocery stores" at commuter rail stations across the country.

September 25, 2012
Re-imagining the great American drug store

How do you transform a drug store into something else? Something new. Something no one has ever seen before. And what would it look like? 


September 19, 2012
Harris Teeter to open new format under 201central banner

Harris Teeter is currently renovating two locations into a new concept called 201central, which will carry an extensive variety of wine, beer, specialty foods and other general merchandise items.

September 14, 2012
Winn-Dixie adopts Bi-Lo's price optimization tool

KSS Retail, a Dunnhumby company, on Thursday announced that Bi-Lo, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based parent company of Bi-Lo and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, has extended its business relationship with KSS Retail.

September 12, 2012
A&P looks to shed The Food Emporium business

Grocery A&P — which operates 320 stores, including The Food Emporium brand — has confirmed that it is looking to sell The Food Emporium business.

September 11, 2012
Reports: Peapod to open grocery pickup sites in Chicago suburbs

Online grocery retailer Peapod will set up three sites in Chicago where people can pick up groceries they've ordered, according to published reports.

September 5, 2012
Safeway plans IPO for its Blackhawk Network gift card distribution division

Safeway on Wednesday announced that it plans to file a registration statement in the United States for a potential initial public offering of a minority ownership stake in Blackhawk Network Holdings, a leading prepaid payments network.

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