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Like medicine, merchandising is an inexact science. Perhaps that explains these two very different prescriptions by two different supermarket companies, each hoping to grow a healthier pharmacy business. Safeway Taking [...]

Cub Foods The New Approach STILLWATER, Minn. - Cub Foods here has opened its new prototype store aimed at capturing more of a flourishing market - the fill-in shopper. The [...]

Cub Foods bills itself as 'the store next door,' but the Stillwater, Minn.-based retailer is as much visionary as it is neighborly. Cub is continuing to expand the operating space [...]

At Cub Foods the focus is on shrink reduction and profitability with the help of a package of sophisticated electronic equipment. Cub Foods, Stillwater, Minn., keeps an eye on its [...]

Since Cub Foods debuted its 'Global Aisle' in 2003, the concept has spread to eight more stores, with plans for an additional 13 stores by the end of this year, [...]

BATAVIA, Ill. -- Aldi here is reportedly planning to enter the Atlanta market early next year. Articles in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Atlanta Business Chronicle have said the price-impact, limited-assortment [...]

STILLWATER, Minn. -- Brett Lein recently became district manager at Supervalu's Cub Foods division here. But his fight with the Minnesota legislature to allow wine sales in supermarkets has been [...]

Cub departure may open new doors for grocer When it comes to LoBill Foods, parent company Marsh Supermarkets Inc. keeps a low profile. As with all of its operating divisions, [...]

Following its restructuring plan to exit non-core markets, Eden-Prairie, Minn.-based Supervalu, Inc., announced plans to close 30 Cub Foods and Laneco Group stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Indiana within [...]

One of the Indianapolis area's many grocery chains announced May 29 it is leaving in favor of more fruitful markets. Supervalu Inc., based in Minneapolis, said it will shut the [...]

The largest supermarket in Nebraska boasts several stores under its roof, including a c-store with its own parking, entrance, and checkout. It sits in the vast parking lot, like a [...]

Cub Foods is moving away from the 'warehouse look' but not the pricing in the Chicago area, where competition for the grocery dollar is heating up. The company is opening [...]

When Finding Nemo was released in November, mass and consumer electronics retailers near Stillwater, Minn.-based Cub Foods locations sold the DVD at the VHS minimum advertised price (MAP), which is [...]

Darwin Goes Grocery Shopping HIS COMPETITORS blanched at the chandeliers, the deli, the lunch counter, and the very size of Don Byerly's first store. It was, many argued, too big, [...]

CUB The New Generation It wasn't long ago that Cub Foods was the hottest ticket in town. It was the format that threatened to change the face of retailing through [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here has added its fourth Kitchen Shop, an upscale housewares section, to its Indianapolis Cub Foods store, which opened earlier this year. Supervalu officials declined to comment [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu has developed a prototype for corporate Cub Foods locations based on results from an experimental store opened more than two years ago. That experimental store was opened [...]

What happens when a supermarket operator reduces product duplication? Higher sales and higher profits, judging from the experience of three companies. The firms participated in a study that detailed a [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Super Valu Stores is expected to accelerate the rollout of corporately owned Cub stores, security analysts said last week. 'Super Valu has found it can make a better [...]

Aggressive grocer Cub finds new lair in revamped Beaverton Mall Owners of Beaverton Mall are planning a major facelift in order to cart in a huge new Cub Foods grocery [...]

Cub Foods is happy with a test of convenience sections in four stores. The concept, which also includes co-op brand marketing, has been expanded to four more stores and is [...]

ATLANTA -- There are now a dozen Cub Foods stores in this market, the latest of which opened last week in the food side of the American Fare hyper-market in [...]

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. -- Taking aim at its food, drug and discount store competitors, Cub Foods took the wraps off its long awaited new prototype Oct. 30 in this suburban [...]

The goal: craftsmanship At first glance you may think that the in-store bakery in the Minnetonka, Minn., Cub Foods is no different than any other large volume production bakery. The [...]

Cub Questions As some of you may know, I wrote about the supermarket industry for 10 years, left for a decade, and then returned last year. As I returned, there [...]

Reflects Focus on Perishables Cub Foods' emphasis on perishables has never been more evident than in its newest and largest unit, just opened in the Chicago area. As the largest [...]

Cub's Prototype Layout Enhances Section Appeal ATLANTA--An experiment in positioning the bakery up front at a new Cub Foods store here has proved so successful that the chain plans to [...]