MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. plans to convert all 20 of its distribution centers to the same computer hardware and software systems over the next three years to facilitate regional and centralized buying and...
LA HABRA, Calif. -- Food 4 Less Supermarkets here last week reported lower sales and a loss for the third quarter ended April 2.The loss totaled $4.3 million in the quarter. This compared with a loss of $5.8 million...
PHOENIX -- After years of moving on and off the sales block, Smitty's Super Valu here is being sold by Steinberg International, Montreal, to Yucaipa Cos.Yucaipa, based in Claremont, Calif., will pay $141 million for...
CHICAGO -- Second-generation computer software to help meat departments increase their profitability will be available -- free -- on July 1, a Texas A&M assistant professor told a Food Marketing Institute convention...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Fleming Cos. here is reportedly in talks to acquire Scrivner Inc., also based here, in a move that would create one of the largest food distribution companies in North America.Fleming is particularly...
MESA, Ariz. -- Megafoods Stores here has terminated its cost- and revenue-sharing supply agreement with Fleming Cos. in three Western states and signed a new supply contract with Safeway.Under that contract, Oakland...
DENVER -- The former manager of Safeway's division here has filed a lawsuit charging the Oakland, Calif.-based chain with age discrimination.Robert D. Greene, 53, a 36-year Safeway veteran, was relieved of his...
ARCADIA, Calif. -- "This company is not broken," Larry Del Santo, Vons Cos.' newly installed vice chairman and chief executive officer, told the annual shareholders meeting here last week.In remarks just two weeks...
CHICAGO -- The Food and Drug Administration is likely to underscore its enforcement of the new product-labeling law by making an example of a major violator, an attorney specializing in label laws said here.Steven...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Homeland Stores here is for sale.The 112-store chain, one of the Safeway spinoffs of the late 1980s, has disclosed plans to explore the sale of all or substantially all of its operations.According to...