Grocery prices rose 0.5% in January, over double the 0.2% increase in restaurant prices, according to new data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, inflation for food at home ...

No reservations about a grocery Valentine’s Day: Competition between food retailers and restaurants has heated up in recent years, with grocers (and even convenience stores) producing restaurant ...

Today's retailer-owned wholesaling cooperatives have more power and influence than ever before, and are leveraging them to expand operations and modernize infrastructures. The disappearance of ...

A measure on South Dakota’s ballots which would have repealed the state’s grocery tax was rejected on Tuesday by nearly 70% of voters. State imposed grocery taxes became a country-wide ...

here said Marc Smith has joined the company as co-president. Smith had been president and chief executive officer at Quincy, Mass.-based Stop & Shop from 2000 until his resignation earlier this ...

dge to president of the company's Delta Division, effective this week. Prestidge most recently was vice president of operations for Kroger's Southwest Division. Prior to joining Kroger in 2004 ...

reed to purchase the new MC3000 handheld devices from Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, N.Y., for 5,000 convenience stores nationally. Symbol is announcing the deal today at the National Retail ...

id $1.54 million for the two stores and their inventory in a transaction approved by the separate bankruptcy courts overseeing each company. "Buying the Peter's supermarkets at these excellent ...

The Southeast division combines the administrative operations of separate Supervalu wholesale food divisions in Anniston and Atlanta. The new Southeast division will serve 225 retailers in Alabama ...

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After expanding primarily through acquisitions for most of its history, the 86-unit Kentucky-Virginia-Tennessee-based chain is becoming more aggressive in internal growth, opening four new stores ...

Abe Baker, 95, founder of Baker's Supermarkets, Omaha, Neb. Baker died in January after several years of failing health. Baker's, founded in 1947, operates 22 stores in Nebraska and Oklahoma and ...