WinCo Expanding to Dallas
BOISE, Idaho — WinCo Stores here said it expects to begin opening stores in the Dallas market in approximately two years. read more Supermarket News
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Totoritis Retires at AG-South; Alexander Named CEO
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Gerry Totoritis, president and chief executive officer of Associated Grocers of the South here, plans to retire effective Aug. 30, the cooperative wholesaler said. read more Supermarket … Continue Reading →
ShopRite Owner Buys Del. Center: Report
WILMINGTON, Del. — The chairman of Delaware Supermarkets has purchased a shopping center where the company operates a ShopRite store, reports said. read more Supermarket News
Overwaitea Store Uses CO2-Only Refrigeration
THE VILLAGE ON FALSE CREEK, British Columbia — Overwaitea Food Group opened an Urban Fare Express store here last month that uses a carbon dioxide-only transcritical refrigeration system. read more … Continue Reading →
Moody’s Downgrades Supervalu Ratings
NEW YORK — Moody’s Investors Service here said it has downgraded the corporate family rating and probability of default rating of Supervalu’s debt to B3 from B1. read more Supermarket … Continue Reading →
2012 Power 50: No. 43 Robert E. Hill
It’s been a particularly busy acquisition year for Acosta Sales & Marketing. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based company made four significant deals designed to deliver improved results and increased value to its … Continue Reading →
2012 Power 50: No. 44 Joseph T. Hansen
As the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Hansen has been meeting with top retailers and top government officials to try to figure out how health care … Continue Reading →
2012 Power 50: No. 45 The Mobile Consumer
It is hard to overstate the impact that mobile consumers — users of smartphones, who now represent more than half of all cell phone users, according to Nielsen — are … Continue Reading →
2012 Power 50: No. 46 Leslie G. Sarasin
A key characteristic of life inside the beltway is that change is always in the air — legislators come and go at the whim of the electorate, new issues rise … Continue Reading →
Tops to Buy 21 Stores From C&S
WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — Tops Friendly Markets here has agreed to acquire 21 supermarkets in Upstate New York and Vermont — mostly under the Grand Union banner — from GU Family … Continue Reading →