Keptner Joins Wakefern As Senior VP-Marketing
Supermarket industry veteran Erik Keptner has been named senior VP-marketing for Wakefern Food Corp.
Taking Stock
Jeff Metzger's analysis of the 2018 Food Trade News market study, plus the rest of the news of the market.
Metro Beat
Welcome to the annual Food Trade News Market Study issue! As most of you are familiar with, this project is a real undertaking that require months of research and compiling…
BJ's Makes It Official With Filing To Launch Initial Public Offering
BJ’s Wholesale Club, operator of 215 club stores in 16 states (primarily on the East Coast), made it official earlier this month by filing a prospectus to launch an IPO…
ShopRite Rules Again In Highly Competitive $98B Marketplace
With so much overstoring and so much diversity in retail styles, the gridlock in the 70-county Food Trade News marketing area continued.
Taking Stock
Jeff Metzger's analysis of the 2018 Food World market study, plus the rest of the news of the market.
Aisle Chatter
Fresh is in – at least that’s what Nielsen’s Total Consumer Report, which was released this month, has found. While center-of-the-store edibles saw a higher dollar growth of $2.9 billion…
Supervalu To Lay Off 40 At Shoppers; Merchandising Will Shift To Cub Foods
Two months after Supervalu announced it would close or sell its Farm Fresh corporate store retail unit, the company said it would shift merchandising and administrative responsibility for its Retail-East…
Giant, Walmart, CVS Pace All Retailers In $48 Billion Market
Permanent gridlock? Perhaps in a few more years the competitive pressure of the Mid-Atlantic market will abate a bit, but the landscape that food and drug retailers now face seems…
Kroger/Harris Teeter, Food Lion Close On 21 Farm Fresh Stores
With the exception of three Hampton Roads locations, Farm Fresh has officially exited the Tidewater market.
Supervalu To Lay Off 40 Shoppers’ Associates; Merchandising To Shift To Cub Foods
Two months after Supervalu announced it would close or sell its Farm Fresh corporate store retail unit, the company said it would shift merchandising and administrative responsibility for its Retail-East…