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  • Whole Foods Market Opens Third Unit in Manhattan

    NEW YORK -- Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market opened its doors across from Manhattan's Union Square Park here yesterday, with a uniquely-designed three-story unit at the location of a former Bradlee's discount department store.

  • Logistics Moving Fast on Conveyor Belt of Change: FMI

    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.

  • Safeway to Grow Comps by 'Reinventing the Enterprise'

    NEW YORK -- "Branding the shopping experience" is Safeway's scheme for regaining ground lost to the impact of the infamous California strike, said an enthusiastic Steve Burd, chairman and c.e.o. of the chain, at the Banc of America Securities Consumer Conference 2005 yesterday.

  • Logistics Moving Fast on Conveyor Belt of Change: FMI

    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.

  • Safeway to Grow Comps by 'Reinventing the Enterprise'

    NEW YORK -- "Branding the shopping experience" is Safeway's scheme for regaining ground lost to the impact of the infamous California strike, said an enthusiastic Steve Burd, chairman and c.e.o. of the chain, at the Banc of America Securities Consumer Conference 2005 yesterday.

  • Albertson's Four-Step Success Plan

    NEW YORK -- While many of the banners under Boise, Idaho-based grocer Albertson's umbrella may feel like local grocers to shoppers, it is the unified action taking place behind the scenes that will sharpen the retail conglomerates competitive edge in coming years, Felicia Thornton, the company's e.v.p. and c.f.o. told attendees at the Banc of America Securities 2005 Consumer Conference yesterday.

  • Kroger Thinking Big to Fight Big Foes

    NEW YORK -- Kroger Co. intends to throw its own weight around to compete against big supercenter competition, said the chain's c.f.o., Michael Schlotman, yesterday at the Banc of America Securities 2005 Consumer Conference here.

  • Yoke's Is First U.S. Grocer With 100% Degradable Plastic Bags

    SPOKANE, Wash. -- At a time when San Francisco and some other cities are considering imposing fees on grocery bags to cut down on pollution from bag waste, Yoke's Fresh Markets here is set to become the first grocery chain in the nation to offer 100 percent degradable plastic bags that the company says are just as strong as nondegradable bags and can still be reused.

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