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*Editor's Note: Follow Supermarket News' coronavirus coverage at our dedicated news page. With the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) officially becoming a global pandemic this week, grocery retailers of all [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores said last week increased productivity and improved inventory management resulted in a better customer experience and contributed to improved financial results for the fiscal third [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores is encouraging shoppers to take a seat at its Great Value Round Table. Members of the new survey-based community will provide feedback about the Great [...]

The endcap is back. And it's back big. The redesign of Wal-Mart's Supercenters include an effort to clean up mid-aisle displays, but at the same time emphasize massive creations at [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores here said last week it has begun developing a new 'sustainability index' that it hopes will make it easier for consumers to evaluate the environmental [...]

'I think building a retail franchise is similar to building a skyscraper,' Jim Kelly, president and chief operating officer of Family Dollar Stores, told SN in a recent interview. 'The [...]

MATTHEWS, N.C. - Consumer demand for cheap consumables continues to drive robust sales at Family Dollar Stores - and has persuaded the discounter to devote more space to them in [...]

ISSAQUAH, Wash. - Costco Wholesale Corp. here is telling suppliers who maintain high prices that it may consider eliminating some brands if they don't offer relief, Richard Galanti, executive vice [...]

The media's current focus on Wal-Mart's gains in this economy leaves the impression that the chain's sole focus is to cut prices. What slips under the radar is the giant [...]

Helping customers eat healthy is a constant struggle for Sunflower Food Store, but it's not the only front on which the retailer is fighting. Two years ago, a Wal-Mart Supercenter [...]

As they fine-tune their holiday promotions, dollar stores are well positioned to cash in on grocery sales during the winter months. Dollar General is planning a seasonal offer of 11 [...]

Wal-Mart Stores for the past few years has made a concerted effort to turn the tide of public opinion in its favor. Recent reports have indicated that the colossal discounter [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores here said the improvements it is making in its stores will help it to retain the new business it is attracting because of the pressure [...]

For 110 years, cans of Campbell's iconic condensed soup have facilitated water, energy and transportation efficiencies resulting from having cut the soups' heaviest ingredient, water, in half. Now, more than [...]

ISSAQUAH, Wash. - 'The salmon story' is one of the anecdotes Jim Sinegal, president and chief executive officer of Costco Wholesale Corp., likes to tell to illustrate how the company [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores here last week said its customers appear to be under intense financial pressure because of the economy, but food retailers around the country told SN [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - In counterpoint to its recent overtures to a more upscale clientele, Wal-Mart Stores will aggressively roll out a financial services program aimed primarily at lower-income customers. The [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Customer segmentation at Wal-Mart Stores is a work in progress. While the nation's leading retailer built its sales base on its appeal to a low-price-oriented segment, it [...]

Last week we took a look in this space at the increasing spread between the satisfaction levels consumers attach to supermarket shopping venues in general and six food retailing chains [...]

Christmas is back. Not that it ever went anywhere, but retailers are using the name in their marketing after years of preferring the more generic 'holiday.' What accounts for this [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Almost four months earlier than planned, Wal-Mart Stores is expanding its $4 generic prescription drug program to all of Florida, the company reported this month. The program, [...]

It's at home on the range, but Wal-Mart has not yet learned how to ride herd over big-city consumers Caption(s): Wal-Marts new White Plains, N.Y. store just outside New York [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores here said it plans to bring more diversity to its discount and supercenter formats in the coming months in an attempt to do a better [...]

In their ongoing battle with Wal-Mart Stores, supermarkets have always had at least one advantage: Wal-Mart offers no loyalty card and therefore doesn't know what individual shoppers are buying. Supermarkets [...]

CHICAGO - Wal-Mart Stores is becoming more responsive to customers at the local level, the chain's chief marketing officer said at a meeting for marketing professionals here last week. 'Retail [...]

Upon the deck of the Alma Marie shrimp boat, Wal-Mart announced it will supply its customers with wild-caught domestic shrimp supplied by Penguin Frozen Foods, one of the nation's largest [...]

PITTSBURGH -- Supermarkets anticipating a competitive supercenter opening nearby should target large-basket shoppers who have children and pets, because they are the most likely to abandon it when the supercenter [...]

SN's Power 50 roster, in this week's issue, contains the cast of influential actors driving the industry's most important plotlines. There is no more important story than the Wal-Mart saga. [...]

Target Stores is launching a new prescription packaging system with a special offer for its Target Pharmacy Rewards members and REDcard Visa or Target credit card holders. The new packaging [...]

NEW YORK -- There appears to be no shortage of New Yorkers with negative opinions about Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores. Opponents of the world's biggest retailer, which has proposed building [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here has launched a new pharmacy service called Easy Pay that speeds up prescription pick-ups with pre-registered credit and debit cards, according to the company. [...]

MATTHEWS, N.C. -- Family Dollar Stores here said it will roll out refrigerated fixtures to 500 stores between January and August of next year, allowing it to expand its perishable [...]

TAUNTON, Mass. -- 'Here's the difference,' said Ed Giles, executive vice president of club operations for BJ's Wholesale Club, holding up two packages of Danish during a recent store tour [...]

It can be difficult to get good press when you're a superpower, as President Bush would surely confirm. While the U.S. has struggled to convince the rest of the world [...]