Why Your Weekly Grocery Ads May Soon Disappear
A tech company plans to partner with grocery stores, to offer personalized digital circulars that could eventually replace printed ads.
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Supermarkets Install Sensors That Could Help You Save (Or Spend More)
An app developer has partnered with 150 grocery stores to install special in-store sensors that could offer you discounts.
Happy Holidays, Here’s Your Pink Slip and Your Shuttered Supermarket
With just two weeks to go, Dominick’s grocery stores are holding going-out-of-business sales, and employees are worried about their future.
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.
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…]
How Much Do You “Like” Your Grocery Store?
You may like your local grocery store just fine, but it takes a real commitment to show the world – or at least your Facebook friends – that you “like” it. Occasional customer satisfaction surveys have declared certain supermarkets to be the most or least liked of all, but a look at how many grocery shoppers have hit the thumbs-up[Read More…]
Safeway’s “Poison Pill” and What it Means for You
(March 6, 2014 update: Safeway announces $9 billion sale to Cerberus). When you’re just trying to save some money and feed your family, the goings-on in the boardrooms and backrooms of those who run your local grocery store are probably of little concern. So if you skimmed over the story about Safeway in the financial pages of your local paper[Read More…]
Pulling the Plug on Price Matching: Safeway, Dominick’s Ditch “Deal Match”
Price matching has become all the rage recently, as retailers try to curry favor with customers and gain the upper hand over their competitors. So why is one of the country’s largest supermarket chains calling it quits on its price-match program? Safeway introduced “Deal Match” in 2011, in two markets – the Hawaiian island of Oahu, and at Safeway-owned Dominick’s[Read More…]
Safeway is Filthy Rich Now – So What Will That Mean for You?
If you’re a Safeway shopper in Canada, your store will soon have a new owner. If you’re a Safeway shopper in the U.S., your store’s owner just got filthy stinking rich. And like a long-lost relative who just discovered their distant cousin won the lottery, you may be wondering – what’s in it for me? Safeway today announced the sale[Read More…]
Kroger: Digital Won’t Replace Paper, Until All the Old People Die
Digital coupons – the kids love ’em, we’re told. But does your great aunt Ethel? In certain marketers’ and retailers’ zeal to save the trees, retire the scissors and get us all to go digital, few seem to be considering our older friends. You know, those who think a smartphone is one that you can dial without having to call[Read More…]
