Retailers have been in a world where unit sales are down (from a year ago) but the rampant inflation rate (11.9 percent overall during May and even higher when measuring food products alone) which has kept their top line numbers strong.

The Sunbury, PA-based retailer posted net sales totaled $1.1 billion in Q1, compared to $1.0 billion for the same period in 2021, up 9.7 percent.

The under-the-radar organizational effort reached a critical juncture last October when associates at the perishables-driven delivery service first announced they had secured enough signatures to authorize an election.

The annual top-to-top trade event, featuring industry leaders from all segments of the grocery business, was originally scheduled to be held in Boca Raton, FL in late January, was finally held March 28-31 in Orlando.

The family-owned merchant announced it will open its first Connecticut location on an 11-acre site smack in the middle of Fairfield County, one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S.

The Manhattan-based investment company not only financially supported Albertsons during the early lean times, but it also financed the retailer’s acquisition of chains Acme, Shaw’s/Star, Jewel, etc. from Supervalu in 2013.

Retailers have been not so secretly worried that the current unprecedented two-year run of robust comp store sales will run out of gas sooner rather than later.

The three-hour virtual meeting educated local manufacturers and distributors on how to gain entry into its 164 stores and/or online through the chain’s e-commerce portal.

The problem has been building since last summer when the Delta version of COVID-19 created a sharp spike in infections.

Thirty-eight days. In that relatively short period, the Carlisle, PA-based retailer did something that many retailers might take two or three years to accomplish.

From a small cluster of Newark merchants who in 1946 crafted an idea they hoped would help them merely survive, one of the industry’s leading lights has continued its pathway to excellence.

When the damage from this ongoing recent train wreck is tallied, the Bowie, MD-based retailer will be down to 17 stores in Maryland and only three remaining in Virginia.

The founder and retiring CEO of Whole Foods changed the grocery landscape with an operating and merchandising model consisting of more perishables, more retail foodservice, and an unwavering approach to promoting the value of healthy foods.

The San Francisco-based digital grocery delivery firm already has the dominant share of the home delivery business from traditional brick and mortar food retailers and now is looking to further bolster its revenue by ramping up its efforts to sell more digital advertising.

The specialty merchant, which went public in 2010 and then exited six years later when PE firm Apollo Global Management acquired it, is once again seeking the IPO route.

One year after joining the Jacksonville, FL-based broker as chief executive, Wynne has a clear vision of what direction the company needs to take.

Two of the country’s largest retailers are both moving forward with aggressive distribution and logistics plans as they seek to create greater supply chain efficiencies.

Sales remain positive, but retailers are highly concerned by significant labor shortages, spiraling inflation and increasing supply chain choke points.

In a year where retailers were challenged as never before and associates showed their badges of courage, the tailwinds of the pandemic created record sales for most merchants in all channels.

Ahold Delhaize is using a two-year comparable sales “stack” review of its recent achievements as it tries to objectively measure its U.S. comp sales growth rate in Q1 2021 added to the comp sales growth rate in the prior year.

Expect No Letup For Future Organizing Efforts

The results of the vote to organize the distribution center in Bessemer, AL will likely take longer to tally than the actual election timeframe itself.

The Zaandam, Netherlands-based retailer had its most active acquisition year in 2020 since the merger of the two Dutch chains in 2016.

The veteran retail executive checks all the important boxes in the visceral and intangible skills that are needed to oversee a large merchandising department today.

Sales at its U.S stores jumped 18.7 percent to $13.6 billion in the 14-week period and U.S. comps (ex-gas) grew 11.2 percent, due largely to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Whether it was lack of a succession plan, inability to keep pace with current technology and/or other consumer trends, intense competition from larger merchants, adverse legislation or just plain lack of capital, the independent scene has radically changed for the worse since 2011.

Nearly 90 days after it was named the successful bidder for 27 Kings and Balducci’s stores at a U.S. Bankruptcy Court auction in New York, Acme Markets received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to complete the $96.4 million deal.

It’s not often in the 30 years that I’ve written about Walmart that I’ve defended the world’s largest retailer. And truthfully, before current CEO Doug McMillan’s tenure began in 2014, there were way too many black marks on a company that in my view often deliberately worked along the margins…

During his conference call with analysts after the company released its financials, the CEO of the Providence, RI distributor said that his successor could be disclosed in early 2021

For the time being, FreshDirect will operate as a separate entity from any of Ahold Delhaize’s other brands.

The buzz has been around since even before the Seattle juggernaut acquired Whole Foods in 2017 and it became a bit louder when “Godzilla” purchased niche online pharmacy PillPack a year later.

The new DC will encompass approximately 2.2 million square feet and service the Lakeland, FL-based retailer's stores in the Carolinas and Virginia.

The change in vendor funding for the Sunbury, PA-based retailer will eliminate ad fees, slotting fees, scan handling fees, store ship recap fees, in-store execution fees, electronic marketing redemptions, mix and match redemptions, volume incentives, new store opening billings and joint business plan fees.

New division officially began on September 13 covering 275 stores with annual sales of $ 6 billion.

If TLI Bedrock gains control, it should be prepared add more than $100 million above the final selling price to make Kings competitive on all levels once again.

Six of the largest retailers doing business in the Mid-Atlantic achieved strong quarterly performances as consumers continued to purchase retail food at near record levels.

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Seeking efficiency, Albertsons creates $6 bllion Mid-Atlantic division.

There's never been a year like this one as retailers adapted to new ways of servicing their customers, protecting their associates and pushing hard to keep supply chains functional.

As he's done for 41 previous years, Jeff give his take on the market leaders in the core Baltimore-Washington market.