Tech-Savvy Shopper Allegedly Helps Herself to Supermarket Scanner
There’s apparently a new problem with supermarket self-scanners – theft, of the scanners themselves.
Grocery & Retail News
Couponing and Grocery Shopping: A Bore, or a Blast?
Is shopping a chore, or do your savings make it fun? A new report says grocery stores would do well to make the experience more enjoyable.
Four Different Grocery Stores Win the “Walmart Challenge”
Walmart says its grocery prices can’t be beat – but it seems Bottom Dollar, Market Basket, Winco and Woodman’s are winning the challenge.
Blockbuster Buyout: Could Cerberus Scoop Up Safeway?
Sources are saying that Safeway could end up selling all of its stores – to the current owner of Albertsons.
How Do Your Store Brands Stack Up?
A new survey ranks grocery stores based on the quality of their private-label products.
Could Your Supermarket Go the Way of the Dodo?
If you want to buy dirt cheap groceries, at a place that doesn’t take coupons, you can go to Aldi. If you want specialty items, from a place that doesn’t take coupons, there’s Trader Joe’s. And if you want a little of everything, at a place where the cashiers may decide not to take many of your coupons because they[Read More…]
Safeway “Disposes” of Dominick’s – Could Other Divisions Be Next?
In a move that was not entirely unexpected, but still something of a surprise to anyone accustomed to their grocery shopping routine, one of the nation’s largest traditional grocery chains is getting a little smaller. Safeway has announced it’s exiting the Chicago market, and putting the “for sale” sign on the entire Dominick’s grocery chain. Adding to Chicagoland shoppers’ (and[Read More…]
So Long, Sweetbay & Reid’s: Southern Supermarket Shakeup Continues
If you do your grocery shopping in the South, chances are good that at least one of your neighborhood stores is getting a new look and a new name. The latest to undergo a change will be Sweetbay in Florida, and Reid’s in South Carolina. Nearly a year after the troubled Sweetbay began shuttering many of its stores in a[Read More…]
U.S. Military Grocery Stores Are Back in Business
The U.S. government may be largely closed for business, but taxpayer-supported grocery stores on military bases across the country are open once again. Now all they need is something to sell. The Pentagon decided over the weekend to recall furloughed employees “whose responsibilities contribute to the morale, well-being, capabilities and readiness of service members.” That included thousands of workers who[Read More…]
Get a Kleenex Coupon by Letting a Website Predict When You’ll Get Sick
Ah, fall – time for pumpkin-picking, hayrides, trick-or-treating – and getting the flu and realizing you don’t have any tissues in the house. Kleenex is trying to help you avoid that scenario, by predicting when you’re most likely to get sick. And if that encourages you to run out and stock up on some Kleenex tissues, all the better. Kleenex[Read More…]
