C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Penn Traffic Co. here said yesterday that industry veteran Greg Young is rejoining the company as s.v.p. and chief marketing & distribution officer. Young, who served more than 25 years in a number of management and other positions at Penn Traffic and P&C Foods, more recently held positions at both A&P and C&S Wholesale Grocers. His last position at C&S was v.p./general manager of retail.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Penn Traffic Co. here said yesterday that industry veteran Greg Young is rejoining the company as s.v.p. and chief marketing & distribution officer. Young, who served more than 25 years in a number of management and other positions at Penn Traffic and P&C Foods, more recently held positions at both A&P and C&S Wholesale Grocers. His last position at C&S was v.p./general manager of retail.

BIRMINGHAM, S.C. -- A store in Clemmons, N.C. operated by Southern Family Markets here, an affiliate of food distributor C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., was reportedly fined $1,170 in civil penalties by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for excessive price-scanning errors.

Keene, N.H. -- Southern Family Markets LLC, a Southern retail affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. here, said Friday that industry veteran Bill White has joined the company as president and c.o.o.

CHICAGO -- Associated Grocers of Baton Rouge, La. and Tree of Life are the latest grocery distributors to sign partnerships with Chicago-based InXpo, a producer of online trade shows, as more companies supplement, enhance, or replace their bricks-and-mortar selling shows with online trade shows.

HALETHORPE, Md. -- The impending close of distributor Ocean Logistics here, a subsidiary of Keene, N.H.-based C&S Wholesale Grocers, on April 28, is poised to be a major blow to needy people in the area. According to the Maryland Food Bank, its neighbor Ocean Logistics donated more than 1 million pounds of food to it annually. "This is devastating," noted the food banks executive director, Bill Ewing, in a statement. "Ocean Logistics is one of our biggest food donors. It will be very hard for us to make up 1 million pounds of food from any one food donor."

KEENE, N.H. -- Four employees yesterday filed a nationwide class action against C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., based here, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, claiming that the second-largest wholesale grocery store supplier in the United States "routinely cheats thousands of its piece-rate warehouse workers out of millions of dollars a week in wages," according to a statement from the law firm representing the plaintiffs.

KEENE, N.H. -- C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. is installing a new data warehouse solution to enhance the operations of the company's procurement and retail units.