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Author Archives: Shelby Report Staff
The Shelby Report newsroom covers the grocery industry for retailers, wholesalers and suppliers. Staff reports include store openings, executive appointments, company announcements and industry event coverage. Since 1967, The Shelby Report has covered supermarkets, grocery chains and independent grocers through five regional editions.
Posted in, National
What Buying Trends Can Grocery Stores Expect This Fourth of July?
The Fourth of July holiday brings out many of the obvious grilling and barbeque delights—hot dogs, hamburgers, and of course potato chips. But what brands are consumers buying? Do various regions differ in their love for grilled meats? Are shopper’s grilling habits changing? Answers to these questions can offer valuable insights to grocery businesses as […]
Posted in, National, Shelby Content
Hispanic Buying Power
The immense buying power of the nation’s Hispanic consumers continues to energize the nation’s consumer market, and Selig Center projections reveal that Hispanics will control $1 trillion in spending power in 2010.
Posted in, Albertsons, Southwest
Albertsons New Mexico Stores Ceasing Fireworks Sales
In response to the hot, dry conditions that have contributed to the devastating fire season that New Mexico is experiencing this year, the Albertson’s LLC Southwest division has decided to pull all fireworks from the stores
Posted in, Midwest
July 2011 Indiana Roundup
Family Dollar Building DC Gov. Mitch Daniels joined Jim Kelly, president and CEO of Family Dollar Stores Inc., and other company executives along with local representatives in mid-May for a groundbreaking ceremony of a new Family Dollar distribution facility to be built in Ashley at 100 S. CR 31. The Fortune 300 retailer announced in […]
Posted in, Beverage News, Equipment & Technology, National
Food/Beverage Execs Foresee Improved 2011 Performance
Senior financial executives of global food and beverage companies expect to achieve improved financial performance in 2011
Posted in, Equipment & Technology, Midwest
Meijer Customers Can Order Online, Pick Up at Store
Merging online and in-store shopping, Meijer has introduced a program that allows shoppers to place an order on Meijer.com and have the merchandise shipped—at no cost—directly to their local Meijer store for pickup. The online program, called “Order-to-Store,” will include thousands of items found on ordertostore.meijer.com, including furniture and home products, sporting goods, kitchen appliances, […]
Posted in, Beverage News, National
Coca Cola Will Raise Prices July 31
Beverage Digest reported Friday that price increases of 3-4 percent are coming on July 31.
Posted in, National
Fed Softens Rule to Cut Debit Card Swipe Fees
In a move that, according to USA Today, disappointed both sides of the contentious issue, the Federal Reserve Board voted June 29 to soften a rule that will cap the fees banks charge retailers when consumers use debit cards.
Posted in, National
Walmart Cutting Gas Prices
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is cutting gas prices by 10 cents a gallon for three months. The Arkansas-based retailer is well aware that rising gas prices and other household costs are squeezing shoppers’ budgets, reporting at its annual shareholders meeting earlier this month that shoppers appear to be focusing on groceries and little else. To help […]
Posted in, National, Suppliers
Campbell Elects Denise Morrison President and CEO
Morrison will succeed Douglas R. Conant, 60, who will step down as president and CEO on July 31 after more than a decade in that role. Conant also will step down from Campbell’s board of directors at that time.
Posted in, West
Fresh & Easy Opens First San Francisco Store
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on June 22 joined U.S. Health and Human Services Regional Director Herb Schultz, executives from Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market and dozens of neighborhood leaders to open the grocer’s first store in San Francisco
Posted in, National, New Products
Post Foods Intros New Pebbles Boulders
Post Foods LLC, the makers of the classic children’s cereal with the spirit of Bedrock, on June 22 revealed a new Pebbles limited-edition flavor, Boulders Stone Age Caramel Apple. Each serving of caramel boulders and apple dinosaur bones contains 16 grams of whole grains.
Posted in, West
Times Supermarkets Switches Supply to Unified Grocers
Unified Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery distributor in the western Untied States, announced June 22 that Times Supermarkets (Times), a chain of 20 conventional supermarkets in Hawaii (stores are located on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Kauai), has switched its grocery supply business to Unified Grocers and will begin receiving groceries and other products […]
Posted in, Equipment & Technology, National
U.S. Retailers Lose More Than $37B a Year to Retail Theft
Retailers lost more than $37 billion to theft last year, according to an annual survey conducted by the University of Florida with a funding grant from security systems integrator ADT Commercial. The National Retail Security Survey (NRSS) preliminary results show an increase in theft by nearly $4 billion, from $33.5 billion in 2009 to $37.1 […]
Posted in, Southeast
Borden Begins Statewide Distribution in Florida
Borden Dairy Co., one of the most trusted brands in the dairy industry, announced June 20 that it will bring its premium milk to dairy aisles in Florida. Florida-based Velda Farms has changed its name to Borden Dairy Co. of Florida to help relaunch the brand and expand its distribution in Florida. Borden® milk will […]
Posted in, National
Dollar General Going Coast to Coast
Just after it announced it would open stores in three new states in 2011—Connecticut, Nevada and New Hampshire—Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based Dollar General Corp. announced its plans to open its first stores in California in 2012. The company had expanded out to Arizona and Colorado in recent years. “Our California stores will mark a significant milestone for […]
Posted in, Southeast
Winn-Dixie’s Food Recovery Program a Success in First Year
Florida-based Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. has provided approximately eight million pounds of perishable items—or more than six million nutritious meals—to the affiliate food banks of Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Winn-Dixie first piloted its food recovery program in 10 stores beginning in January 2009 and expanded the program to all of its stores […]
Posted in, West
Southern California Grocers Reach Agreement with UFCW
Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons revealed June 20 that the companies have reached a tentative agreement on the pension portion of the labor agreement currently being negotiated with the seven United Food and Commercial Workers Locals covering more than 60,000 employees in the region. In a statement the companies said, “We are pleased to have reached […]
Posted in, National
Supreme Court Limits Wal-Mart Sex Bias Case
According to multiple reports, the Supreme Court has blocked a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of female employees. The justices all agreed that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could not proceed as a class action in its current form, reversing a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in […]