Store Closures

Grocery Outlet Plans Store Closures After Weak Fourth Quarter

Grocery Outlet is closing three dozen outlets across the Northeast and the…

Harris Teeter To Shut 4 DC-Area Stores As Part Of 60 Kroger Closings

The closings are part of 60 underperforming stores the large merchant announced…

Most Supermarkets More Vulnerable Than Ever Against Price/Value Alternate Retailers

What a difference a year can make. Or not. Twelve months ago…

  • Most supermarkets more vulnerable than ever against price/value alternate retailers
  • C&S’s $1.77 billion acquisition of Spartan Nash, combined with the addition of Key Food, represents a real threat to faltering UNFI’s Central Region business
  • Prime Days ratcheting up sales this year by expanding from 2 days to 4 and adding “Today’s Big Deals” for Prime members
  • Most new store activity this past month was by non-traditional supermarkets operating stores smaller than 30,000 square feet

With Second Bankruptcy Filing Since 2023, Rite Aid Nears End Of The Line

The PA-based drug chain seeks buyers for its 1,240 remaining stores.

Family Dollar Finally Unloaded By Dollar Tree To PE Investors

The discounted deal is valued at approximately $1 billion and former president…

PE Firm Sycamore Partners To Buy Walgreens For $10 Billion

The deal represents the culmination of negotiations begun in December.

Wheeler To Replace Retiring Reid As Stop & Shop President

Move is effective September 30. Reid will stay on as strategic advisor…

National Supermarket Association Adding New England Chapter

NFRA announces 2024 Mar4ch Frozen Foods Month Golden Penguin Awards and reaction…

Rite Aid Chapter 11 Nears End; Walgreens Share Price Plunges

Two of the big three chains in the U.S. continue to show…

As Ahold Delhaize Begins ‘Growing Together’ Program, Stoppie Will Close Stores

New approach will see the retailer close about 30 stores while investing…