Logistics

LONDON -- Asda, Wal-Mart British supermarket chain, yesterday said that it planned to launch additional Asda Living general merchandise and George clothing stores in the United Kingdom.

ABILENE, Kan. -- Duckwall-ALCO Stores, Inc. said yesterday that it would shutter 20 stores, comprising eight ALCOs and 12 Duckwalls, that don't meet the company's minimum return-on-investment threshold. The retailer described the closings as an initiative to improve Duckwall-ALCO's financial performance for its shareholders.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A federal judge confirmed Penn Traffic's reorganization plan yesterday, giving the regional retailer here the green light to emerge from its two-year chapter 11 bankruptcy.

ABILENE, Kan. -- Duckwall-ALCO Stores, Inc. said yesterday that it would shutter 20 stores, comprising eight ALCOs and 12 Duckwalls, that don't meet the company's minimum return-on-investment threshold. The retailer described the closings as an initiative to improve Duckwall-ALCO's financial performance for its shareholders.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A federal judge confirmed Penn Traffic's reorganization plan yesterday, giving the regional retailer here the green light to emerge from its two-year chapter 11 bankruptcy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- New technologies, elevated food safety concerns and the growth of mass merchandisers are all factoring into a rapidly changing logistics environment for food distributors and retailers, said FMI in a study released yesterday, the 2004 Food Industry Distribution Center Benchmarking Report.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- New technologies, elevated food safety concerns and the growth of mass merchandisers are all factoring into a rapidly changing logistics environment for food distributors and retailers, said FMI in a study released yesterday, the 2004 Food Industry Distribution Center Benchmarking Report.

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Grocery Outlet, one of the largest extreme-value grocers in the United States, will expand its presence in the Northwest with the addition of six new stores in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and Washington, and the relocation of two stores in Oregon.