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  • GROCERY: Center Store Strategies: Center of the action

    According to the experts at Retail Forward, grocers and their suppliers need to break down the barriers built up between center store categories to revitalize the business.

  • Wal-Mart: Affordable Organics Still a Priority

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Responding to claims that it's backing off its ambitious plans to offer a wide range of organic foods, Wal-Mart said yesterday that it's still in the organics game, stocking organic items on a store-by-store basis based on what's appropriate for customers in specific markets.

  • Wal-Mart: Affordable Organics Still a Priority

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Responding to claims that it's backing off its ambitious plans to offer a wide range of organic foods, Wal-Mart said yesterday that it's still in the organics game, stocking organic items on a store-by-store basis based on what's appropriate for customers in specific markets.

  • Wal-Mart's March Sales Up, but April Outlook Cautious

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Grocery sales, a higher average ticket, and an earlier Easter holiday helped Wal-Mart Stores boost March same-store sales at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club units by 4 percent. Total sales, including international sales, rose 11.7 percent to $34.26 billion.

  • C.E.O. Says Bi-Lo, Now on the Block, Will Stay the Course

    GREENVILLE, S.C. -- A day after Lone Star Funds announced it's looking to sell Bi-Lo, the regional chain's president and c.e.o. reiterated his confidence in the strength of the business, and said the company will continue to pursue its current course, including capital expenditures in its markets.

  • Wal-Mart Opens Multilevel Store in Revitalization Zone

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. yesterday unveiled a "unique" three-level, 205,700-square-foot unit in its fourth so-called "jobs and opportunity zone" in Richmond, Calif. The store is inside a formerly vacant space at Richmond's Hilltop Mall.

  • Wal-Mart Must Disclose Charitable Donations

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) said yesterday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told it that Wal-Mart here would have to submit an NLPC-sponsored proposal that discloses its charitable donations to shareholders at its annual meeting in June, according to a published report.

  • Bi-Lo for Sale

    DALLAS -- Southeastern chain Bi-Lo is back on the market several years after breaking away from former parent company Ahold. Bi-Lo's current owner, private equity firm Lone Star Funds, said yesterday it intends to seek a buyer for the 230-store chain, which has come up short in many markets to the country's leading supermarket operator, Wal-Mart.
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