Coupon-Friendly Grocery Chain Gets a New Lease on Life
The owner of Cub Foods and Shoppers says it’s no longer actively looking to sell the grocery chains.
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Grocery Stores Are Already Starting to Return to “Normal”
Several grocery chains are beginning to ease up on restrictions imposed in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
Four Supermarket Chains to Be Sold in Big Grocery Buyout
Cub, Hornbacher’s, Shoppers and Shop ‘n Save may soon be for sale, after their parent company is acquired in a $2.9 billion deal.
More Supermarket Shoppers May Be Data Theft Victims
Supervalu announces that thousands of shoppers’ debit and credit card data may have been stolen, at ten different supermarket chains.
Even Double Coupons Couldn’t Save This Supermarket
Shoppers in the Twin Cities may be seeing the end of double coupons, as Rainbow Foods is sold and its owners exit the market.
Dismissed Lawsuit Means We Can All Pig Out on Free Samples Again
A man who sued after an altercation involving free supermarket samples, argued that there should have been clear rules about how many he could take.
The New Supervalu: Low Prices, Fresh Food, and the Sales are a Secret
Nearly five weeks after selling off several supermarket chains, a slimmed-down Supervalu is ready to reveal plans for its remaining stores. Those changes include lower prices, more fresh selection, and a system that allows each chain to make more of its own decisions about what its customers want. And one chain has decided that what its customers want, is to[Read More…]
Changes in Store For Supervalu, Including Fewer Employees
There’s been a lot of discussion, concern, pessimism and optimism about the future of the stores that Supervalu sold last week (read: “Changes Coming to Albertsons, Acme, Jewel, Shaw’s and Star Market”). But what about the stores that Supervalu has left? One of the first things the company has decided, is that a slimmed-down company requires a slimmed-down staff. Supervalu[Read More…]
Free Supermarket Samples Land Man in the Slammer
Might want to be careful next time you accept free samples at your local supermarket. Take too many, and you could get arrested and end up suing the store. That’s what happened to 68-year-old Erwin Lingitz of Gem Lake, Minnesota. In a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month, the retiree is seeking up to $375,000 from the store security guard,[Read More…]
Supervalu Sells Albertsons, Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Star Market: So What Does it Mean For You?
(1/11 update – read: “Bigger, Better, or Goners? What’s in Store For Your Jewel-Osco, Acme, Shaw’s and Star Market”) The troubled supermarket operator Supervalu has now confirmed what’s long been rumored – it’s selling off several of its chains. Chicago-based Jewel-Osco, Philadelphia-based Acme, Boston-based Shaw’s and Star Market, and Albertsons stores in California, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington[Read More…]
