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Stop & Shop Supermarket workers reached a tentative contract agreement with company officials that would increase wages and maintain health coverage, ending a strike that began April 11. The tentative [...]

The Kroger Co. Cincinnati/Dayton division ratified a new labor agreement with The UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS UNION Local 75. Employees in the division will see starting wages rise to [...]

CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, Ankeny, IA, submitted a bid for Cincinnati, OH-based Kroger Co.'s convenience store business, according to people familiar with the matter. Casey's is one of multiple parties interested [...]

The Kroger Co. ratified a labor agreement with UFCW Local 1000. The contract covers 11,000 associates at 105 stores in the Dallas/Fort Worth and east Texas areas. 'We are pleased [...]

UK-based ASDA may make a bid for B&M EUROPEAN VALUE RETAIL, a UK-based discount retailer, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would reduce Asda's reliance on food, [...]

Supervalu entered an agreement with Marsh Supermarkets to serve as its primary grocery wholesaler and to provide certain professional services. Supervalu will supply Marsh Supermarkets and O'MALIA FOOD MARKETS in [...]

SAINSBURY made a winning bid of $2.6 billion for HOME RETAIL GROUP. Sainsbury's chairman David Tyler said the acquisition of Home Retail Group will create a multi-product, multi-channel proposition with [...]

SAINSBURY'S is attempting to buy HOME RETAIL GROUP, the owner of ARGOS and HOMEBASE, for approximately $1 billion ... Business Insider (Jan. [...]

SOBEYS CAPITAL INC. will purchase PETE'S FINE FOODS' Canadian retail and wholesale business. The stores will continue to operate under the Pete's Fine Foods brand ... Canadian Business (Oct. [...]

TESCO agreed to a $1.1 billion real estate swap with BRITISH LAND CO., whereby it regains sole ownership of 21 superstores, which were part of a joint venture between the [...]

PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS INC., Lakeland, FL, purchased the Lakewood Walk Shopping Center in Manatee County, FL, from NORTH AMERICAN PROPERTIES, Cincinnati. Publix's purchase includes approximately 18.7 acres of commercial land [...]

WAL-MART STORES INC. is teaming up with WILD OATS to offer customers organic food items without the premium price. Starting this month, Wal-Mart will introduce nearly 100 Wild Oats products, [...]

DELHAIZE GROUP signed an agreement with AP MART to divest its Bulgarian operations. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter subject to regulatory [...]

WALMART is considering bidding for a Hong Kong supermarket business, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The supermarket, PARKNSHOP, is a subsidiary of LI'S HUTCHISON WHAMPOA and is [...]

THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO. (A&P) hired investment bank CREDIT SUISSE to help it explore 'strategic alternatives' that could include a sale of the company, according to a [...]

PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS INC., Lakeland, FL, acquired the 44,696-sq.-ft. shopping center that houses its store in Charlotte Harbor, FL for $4.7 million. A Publix subsidiary made the purchase from investor [...]

Dubai retailer MAJID AL FUTTAIM expects to bid for the supermarket arm of Egypt's MANSOUR GROUP in the first quarter, its chief executive stated, after it posted a 10% rise [...]

BAIN CAPITAL LLC, BC PARTNERS LTD. and WILLIAM MORRISON SUPERMARKETS PLC are reportedly the remaining bidders for ICELAND FOODS LTD., according to four people with knowledge of the plan. Second-round [...]

WHOLE FOODS MARKET's Fairfield, CT-based store will incorporate UTC POWER's PureCell System Model 400. The system will generate 90% of the store's electricity needs and its byproduct thermal energy will [...]

Retail health clinics continue to post mixed results in supermarket stores. Some chains are exiting them completely, while others are boosting their investment. Notably, PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS terminated its LITTLE [...]

PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS INC., Lakeland, FL, entered into a contract to sell fresh salads, soups and sandwiches restaurant company CRISPERS to HEALTHY FOOD CONCEPTS, LLC, an affiliate of a Florida-based [...]

AMERICAN GOURMET OF SNACKS CO. plans to expand its production facility in Essexville, MI and aims to build another one in Florida. The Florida expansion is dependent on a deal [...]

CARREFOUR SA removed TESCO PLC and Japan's AEON CO. from the bidding for its stores in Southeast Asia. Remaining bidders, which include CASINO GUICHARDPERRACHON SA of France and Thailand's BIG [...]

Whole Foods Market retained the lobbyist firm GLOVER PARK GROUP to assist in its efforts against proposed FTC rules that would block the company's approximate $565 million takeover of WILD [...]

THE PENN TRAFFIC COMPANY signed a produce procurement contract with C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC. Effective Mar. 1, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. will provide sourcing, purchasing and in-bound logistics services for [...]

AFFILIATED FOODS entered into a supply agreement with ALBERTSONS LLC to supply a variety of items to the seven New Mexico stores Albertsons acquired from RALEY'S. Affiliated will supply grocery [...]

Several private equity teams bid for AHOLD NV'S U.S. FOODSERVICE unit, including a group made up of BAIN CAPITAL, BLACKSTONE GROUP, and WELLSPRING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, sources said, reported Reuters (Mar. [...]

.... The UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS' LOCAL 770 in Los Angeles is scheduled to begin contract talks with RALPHS GROCERY CO. With little more than a month to go [...]

MINYARD FOOD STORES INC., Coppell, TX, inked an agreement to outsource its warehouse and distribution functions to ASSOCIATED WHOLESALE GROCERS (AWG), Kansas City, KS. Minyard Food Stores will be AWG's [...]

WILD OATS MARKETS, Boulder, CO, finalized an agreement with PATHMARK STORES to offer approximately 200 Wild Oats specialty branded products in 122 of its store locations in the Northeast, beginning [...]

EAT WELL BE WELL FOODS, INC.'S products are now available at KROGER stores in select locations nationwide. The no sugar, no sugar alcohol products created by the Hood River, OR-based [...]

IGA Chicken Flavor Bouillon, 25 cubes in 3.33-oz. plastic jars is being recalled by CREATIVE CONTRACT PACKAGING CO., Aurora, IL. The product was distributed nationwide by IGA, Inc., Chicago, IL. [...]

Tied to KROGER CO.'S annual SUSAN G. KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION promotion, CAMPBELL SOUP CO.'S pink-ribbon cans of condensed tomato and chicken-noodle soup helped Campbell sell seven million cans of [...]

WINN-DIXIE formed an agreement with STAR-K CERTIFICATION, INC., a Baltimore-based kosher certification agency, through which it will ensure that Winn-Dixie's private-label kosher products adhere to Jewish dietary laws, providing shoppers [...]

TRADER JOE'S signed a lease to move into a former RED APPLE store in Bellingham, WA ... The Bellingham Herald (Aug [...]

* WHOLE FOODS stores throughout the Rocky Mountain region in Colorado will stop carrying gallon sizes of milk from HORIZON ORGANIC, owned by DEAN FOODS, to make way for the [...]

* COFFEE BEAN & TEA LEAF, Los Angeles, plans open more than 40 locations in California this year, putting the total number of locations above 200. The chain also recently [...]

* JAMES DESIDERIO INC. is preparing for a $2.1 million, 20,000-sq. ft. expansion of its Buffalo, NY operations. A 50,000-sq. ft. addition is expected to be added to an adjacent [...]

SHAW'S SUPERMARKETS INC. will roll out a new Shop 'n' Scan wireless shopping and self-checkout system, launch a new ad campaign focusing on products and pricing, and add more DUNKIN' [...]

* PATHMARK STORES, INC., awarded a contract to NORTHERN POWER to install a turnkey photovoltaic solar-power system on the roof at Pathmark's Garwood, Elizabeth, and Lawnside, NJ, [...]

* TRADER JOE'S CO., INC., Monrovia, CA, leased two stores in Atlanta, the first of up to 12 locations the retailer may open in metro Atlanta area. Presently, Trader Joe's [...]

GIANT EAGLE INC. is likely eyeing a deal for Indianapolis-based MARSH SUPERMARKETS INC. as a way to expand west--and potentially become a public company in the process, industry analysts say. [...]

THE KROGER CO., Cincinnati, OH is working with OATSYSTEMS to deploy a field trial of RFID technology to track and manage case-ready meat products through its supply chain. Using battery-powered [...]

.... While Japan will formally decide to lift a ban on U.S. beef imports over mad cow disease next week, when the market does reopen only about 15% of U.S. [...]

* WESSANEN'S TREE OF LIFE unit ended its contract with RALPHS GROCERY. Wessanen said the contract was worth $45 million in annual sales, but unprofitable ... New Ratings (Oct. [...]

ROUNDY'S SUPERMARKETS, INC. has selected independent KERKER to develop an integrated brand communications campaign consisting of account planning, brand strategy, creative and media. Roundy's, owner of RAINBOW FOODS, COPPS and [...]

.... While it did not move to assist immigrant farmworkers already in the U.S., the Senate did vote to expand visa opportunities for foreign workers seeking employment in the U.S., [...]

.... New Jersey will raise its minimum wage to $7.15 an hour over the next two years S the first increase since 1999 when it rose to $5.15, the current [...]

As diet-conscious consumers step up their purchases of healthier foods, organic milk suppliers are grappling with the first shortages since organic products made their way out of natural-food stores and [...]

* Roundy's Inc. signed an agreement to build a Pick ,n Save store in Brookfield, WI. Pending approvals, construction will start this summer with the opening in early 2006. Additionally, [...]