Check out our new daily podcast featuring editors from Supermarket News & CSP Daily News. The Retail Daily provides a quick update of the day’s top headlines from the grocery and c-store industries.
Sign up for the Supermarket News Daily newsletter.
LANDOVER, Md. -- The industry took another step toward consolidation last week, as Giant Food here said it has agreed to be acquired by Ahold for $2.6 billion -- a transaction that would make the Netherlands-based retailer the fifth-largest food...
CHICAGO -- Although the millennium is still 19 months away, major retailers have only about seven months to become "year-2000 compliant," said one supermarket technology expert.Appearing here last week at the Food Marketing Institute Speaks...
LEOMINSTER, Mass. -- Victory Super Markets here trained a team of fresh-food executives from Delhaize -- the Belgium-based company that owns Food Lion -- in the finer points of meals merchandising at its flagship store in Kingston, Mass.The week...
ZAANDAM, The Netherlands -- Ahold has announced a series of changes on its board of directors. Ahold corporate executive board July 1, after which he will continue in his positions on the supervisory boards of Schuitema in the Netherlands...
The most obvious way in which food retailing is combining is simply by means of the spate of acquisition activity that's taken place in recent months.But as a glance at the front page of this week's issue will show, retailing is combining in...
ZAANDAM, Netherlands -- It hasn't always been smooth sailing for Ahold in the United States. Since arriving on these shores in 1977, the Dutch global supermarket giant, based here, has faced many hurdles in turning an ever-growing number of chains...
ZAANDAM, Netherlands -- Supermarket giant Ahold here is ready to "define a different hunting ground" in the United States.The global company, which has become dominant on the East coast of the United States with a strategy of growing in contiguous...
Stop & Shop Adds VP Postk Scavetta has been named to the new post of vice president of distribution operations at Stop & Shop Cos. here, a subsidiary of Ahold USA, Altanta. He reports to Jack Rogerson, vice president of distribution.Scavetta was...
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Supermarket retailers need to gear up for the consumer direct challenge before this business format jumps from infancy into maturity, according to a study released here last week.A comprehensive report based on two years of...
ZAANDAM, Netherlands -- Ahold here said last week it has become a joint owner of two major supermarket chains in South America, with combined sales of $2.5 billion U.S. in Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Ecuador account for annualized sales of $800...