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Although 2010 started out at an extremely slow pace for warehouse clubs and supercenters, with sales during January of that year up only 2.4%, these retailers posted a significant 5.3% [...]

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Deepdiscount drug stores offer an 18% price advantage over supermarkets in the products both classes of trade offer. That was among the findings of a major [...]

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Mass merchants offer up to a quarter of their total item selection in products that are also sold in supermarkets, and achieve up to a 15% [...]

Food/drug combos are staking their claim in pharmacy NEW YORK--Combination stores continue to gain power in the chain drug industry by staking a claim to pharmacy sales. The rise in [...]

Up to 70.8 percent of consumers surveyed in 2007 say they choose conventional supermarkets instead of supercenters as their primary source for meat, up from 68.3 percent in 2006. Moreover, [...]

A June 24 research report from Merrill Lynch Global Securities said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will be able to build 850 of its smaller Supercenters, known as the Urban 99 prototype, [...]

They're hyper for hypermarkets in the Czech Republic. Not only does the country have Europe's highest concentration of hypermarkets per population, but it now has the highest concentration of productions […]

SEOUL -- Wal-Mart Korea, which last year raised its store count to 15 with the opening of six Supercenters, lately has been focusing on private label brand development and community [...]

It has been a difficult period for the U.S. economy and for the retail industry. Retail construction fell from a dramatic peak in 1999-2000 to a lackluster performance last year. [...]

PARIS -- Europe is where Carrefour got its star, and where it gets the majority of its sales. Some facts about Carrefour in Europe: * The company began 2002 with [...]

NEW YORK -- This year may see Ahold NV, the Netherlands-based global food provider, overtake France's Carrefour SA as the world's second-largest retailer. Based on recent rates of sales growth, [...]

NEW YORK -- Shoppers have changed in some important ways over the past decade or so, and mass market retailers have changed right along with them. The nation's chain drug [...]

NEW YORK--Mass market retailers are well represented in the country's areas of highest growth, which, according to the Census Bureau, are concentrated in the South. In fact, nine of the [...]

This issue of MMR includes an expanded feature listing, explaining and discussing the world's 10 best mass market retailers, that handful that has made the strongest impression and turned in [...]

PARIS -- Carrefour SA recorded sales of 18.4 billion euros ($16.19 billion) in the first quarter of 2002. Comparing the results to the first quarter of 2001 and using that [...]

There is a new twist in the retail sales game: whoever has the gold makes the rules. And that is certainly true in the case of the sporting goods consumer, [...]

Health concerns have been skyrocketing as baby boomers move deeper into AARP age. So it should be no surprise that the numbers for private label home health care/kits have been […]

Convenience stores have become more stringent in the last few years in asking for identification with beer purchases. More than half of all 21- to 29-year-olds in 2001 indicated that [...]

Four decades after its founding Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has become the world's largest corporation. With a strong 13.8% sales increase last month, the discounter's volume for the fiscal year ended [...]

Slower growth in sales and new store openings SUPERSTORE SALES rose 23.5%, to just over $4 billion, for the fiscal year ended January 31, 1998, according to PW's annual analysis [...]

SALES FOR THE country's four largest bookstore chains rose 13.2%, to $1.35 billion, for the first quarter ended April 30, 1998. The Borders Group had the largest sales increase in [...]

ORLANDO - The good news is, Holiday RV Superstores Inc.'s stock is riding high. The bad news is, the 52-week high comes to just $2.44 per share. Executives at the [...]

NEW YORK - The food/drug combination store remains one of the most popular formats in the supermarket industry. Over the past three decades combos have become so popular that consumer [...]

The supercenter industry is estimated to grow 24.1% from 1996 to 1997, according to Supermerchants 1996 Update by J.M. Degen & Co., Inc. The growth is primarily attributed to Bentonville, [...]

In 1996, the supercenter industry grew 33.1% over 1995 to reach almost $35.0 billion in food and non-food sales, and having a total of 735 units, according to the J.M [...]

Strategic Retail Report -- Computer Superstores Merchandising Computer superstores seek to overcome their hardware handicap with wide, strategically-placed assortments of software, supplies and accessories Computer superstores derive the vast majority […]

Strategic Retail Report -- Computer Superstores Overview Computer superstores continue to lead the retail computer industry in sales and growth, and, despite regrouping to shore up lagging profit margins, add […]

Last summer, Wal-Mart opened its first urban supercenter in Tulsa, Okla. The company also opened two other supercenters in the surrounding communities of Okmulgee and Stillwater. Tulsa was ripe for [...]

A stabilising of gross margins and a record year of store-openings were highlighted as the major achievements in Iceland's tenth year on the stock market, writes Tracy Forrest. Although margins [...]