Research & Analysis

Retailers continue to prize efficiencies more than employees, and experts predict the payback will be a shortage of management talent in just a few years.

Grocers can boost year-round sales of school and office supplies simply by regaining focus on the category and using creative promotions.

MINNEAPOLIS - Nash Finch on Thursday announced the grand opening of the second Avanza Supermarket in Chicago. Avanza, aimed at serving the rapidly growing Hispanic marketplace, carries an extensive variety of authentic products.

COLTON, Calif. - Several West Coast supermarket chains have stepped up to help victims of the Southern California wildfires.

AUSTIN, Texas - It's one-potato, two-potato at Whole Foods Market here, which is running a "Buy One, Give One" community giving program in conjunction with Alexia Foods, which markets a line of frozen mashed potatoes.

WASHINGTON - The upscale Sutton Place gourmet food chain is close to being purchased by Fresh Fields founder Mark Ordan who plans to expand Sutton Place throughout the Northeast with an infusion of up to $50 million, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

TAMPA, Fla. - ADC, Inc., a provider of data communication technology to the supermarket industry, said today it has licensed its InterScale scales management system to Lowes Foods, a 106-store supermarket chain based in Winston-Salem, N.C.

BOULDER, Colo. - Wild Oats Markets, Inc. today released its preliminary third-quarter 2003 sales and earnings results. The national natural and organic foods retailer also announced that it has reached a decision with distributor Tree of Life, Inc. that mutual expectations under the two companies' primary distribution agreement were unlikely to be met and that Tree of Life would relinquish the primary distribution role.