Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

In an effort to speed up the merger, which would create a 4,500 -store entity,Kroger and Albertsons announced plans in September 2023 to sell 400+ stores, eight DCs and five private label brands to C&S Wholesale Grocers. Top execs from both companies defended the merger in testimony to a U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

Mexican grocer Chedraui , Raley’s Supermarkets and Primark Stores have topped the National Retail Federation’s 2023 Hot 25 Retailers list, which ranks the fastest-growing retail companies in the U.S. 5; and Southern California retailer Superior Grocers added 22 Numero Uno stores in 2022, pushing it to No. Superior Grocers (up 30.1%) 7.

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Retail Wire

JULY 16, 2021

C&S Wholesale Grocers has entered into an agreement to acquire Piggly Wiggly Midwest. “The sale of Piggly Wiggly Midwest to C&S is a natural next step for this historic brand,” said Paul Butera Sr., president of Piggly Wiggly Midwest and founder of Butera Market.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

The retailers also have increased the corporate and office infrastructure they would sell to C&S Wholesale Grocers , as well as additional private label product lines, for a total of approximately $2.9 Facing regulatory challenges to their proposed $24.6 billion in cash — nearly 50% more than the $1.9

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Kroger and Albertsons will sell 413 stores across 17 states and the District of Columbia, along with eight distribution centers, two offices and five private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers for approximately $1.9 billion in cash.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Instacart has expanded the offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, a suite of enterprise-grade technologies designed to help grocers with their digital transformations. Instacart launched Platform in March 2022 as the next step in its broader strategy to become the ecommerce and technology enabler of the grocery industry. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In September 2023 Kroger and Albertsons announced plans to sell 400+ stores, eight DCs, two offices and five private label brands to C&S Wholesale Grocers for approximately $1.9 billion , but the FTC has criticized the divestment as inadequate.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

While not in the top 25, a number of other major retailers did land in the top 100, with grocers particularly well-represented. Retailers that made the list include: Lululemon (#9); Trader Joe’s (#32); H-E-B (#33); eBay (#55); Apple (#56); Wegmans (#80); Vans (#84); Madewell (#88); Scheels (#90); Costco Wholesale (#93); and REI (#95).

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2022

The service is capable of handling ecommerce fulfillment, B2B wholesale and retail stores distribution. The service also has expanded to provide ecommerce and fulfillment solutions for independent and mid-sized grocers through a partnership with Cognetry Labs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2024

Arkansas-based grocer Harps Food Stores is adding its 145 stores to the Grocery TV in-store retail media network. Harps will leverage Grocery TV’s end-to-end in-store retail media solution to engage shoppers with digital displays throughout its stores in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

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Retail Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission has requested that Amazon.com, Associated Wholesale Grocers, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Kraft Heinz, Kroger, McLane Co., Procter & Gamble, Tyson Foods and Walmart turn over data related to supply chain activities.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

The consumer watchdog ultimately decided the acquisition is not likely to substantially lessen competition in the wholesale food distribution sector, as the two companies do not compete for a majority of their customers. And] while there were concerns expressed by some suppliers, many suppliers did not raise competition concerns.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In fact, there are three retail areas in particular — wholesale, off-price and grocery — where the marketplace opportunity is still wide open, primarily because each faces unique digitalization challenges that have slowed their move online. Marketplace White Space #1: Wholesale. Marketplace White Space #2: Off-Price.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Associated Wholesale Grocers hired hundreds of temp workers to help staff its 11 distribution centers after a record number of employees called out sick. Food processors and supermarkets are turning to short-term staff to help address labor shortages tied to the Omicron variant.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Kroger has announced plans to divest over 400 grocery stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers, a move aimed at gaining regulatory approval for its nearly $25 billion takeover of Albertsons. The deal will bring Kroger approximately $1.9

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Retail Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

C&S Wholesale Grocers is revising the Grand Union supermarket banner with plans to open 11 supermarkets in New York and Vermont. Ten of the Grand Union locations are having grand openings this week. The Grand Union stores are back and better than ever.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 5, 2024

Morrisons has launched an app to allow its wholesale and franchise partners to refresh its supplies in its supermarkets. Retailers within the chain’s supply network are able to scan the items they want on their smartphone before checking out with a duty manager, The Grocer reported.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

The grocer claimed its key customer satisfaction metrics were “improving strongly”, and that its complaints had more than halved during the last 20 weeks. ” The update comes depsite the grocer pulling in a £1bn loss last year, as its debt interest payments related to its private equity takeover soared. .”

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Mass Relators

JUNE 15, 2021

WASHINGTON — Independent grocers are important sources of jobs, wages and taxes for the communities they serve, according to the latest economic impact study from the National Grocers Association. The wholesalers serving independent grocers account for more than 44,000 additional jobs (and nearly $3.3 of the 2020 U.S.

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Retail Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Twelve stores were sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers as part of a deal with the Federal Trade Commission. Tops Market and Price Chopper/market 32 have completed a merger. The two grocery operators will continue to be managed separately as divisions of Northeast Grocery Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

This holistic strategy encompasses product innovation as well as wholesale distribution and reach. Streit: Some of our premier partners are national footprint retailers like Kroger , Target and Costco , but also a handful of incredible best-in-market retailers like Wegmans and other natural grocers. That is a very targeted audience.

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Retail Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Associated Wholesale Grocers notified the Food and Drug Administration that it had received the recalled product. Recalled Gerber Good Start SoothePro powdered infant formula was sent to stores after a recall had been issued on the product over concerns of possible Cronobacter sakazakii contamination.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In the 72 years that FMI has issued “The Food Retailing Industry Speaks” report, the survey of retail and wholesale companies is unlikely to have uncovered such a confluence of promise and peril as it has today. Ninety-five percent of grocers with omnichannel capabilities saw e-commerce sales advance more than 200% last year.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 2, 2023

Grocers command three of the top five spots on the latest Hot 25 Retailers list, released this week by the National Retail Federation, which collaborates with Kantar in putting together the annual ranking. based Superior Warehouse Grocers to the No. 7: BJ’s Wholesale Club, with U.S. 12: Costco Wholesale, up 16.9%.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 30, 2024

The supermarket will use the proceeds of the sale to “fund further investment in the grocery and food making businesses, as well as significantly strengthening the business’s capital structure” The grocer is expected to use some of the funds to pay down part of its £5.17bn debt pile.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Blackhurst returns to Morrisons from 18 March, having previously worked for the grocer between 2015 to 2019 primarily as group commercial director. Former Coles liquor chief executive Darren Blackhurst will take the reins from Rachel Eyre as interim chief customer and marketing officer while she is away on maternity leave.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Founded by a grocer, Mable is committed to helping the small business community thrive with their easy-to-use wholesale platform. . With over 1,500 brands to shop from, low order minimums, and direct shipping, Mable is the perfect wholesale partner for sourcing specialty food and beverages from local, emerging companies.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 16, 2023

The grocer highlighted the 50% drop in wholesale electricity prices, a 22% in plastic PET packaging prices and a 84% plummet in freight costs, within its presentation to suppliers. The pressure on suppliers comes as Tesco reviews its fresh and packaged food ranges.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 31, 2022

The challenges for most other retailers are significant, but a number of midsize grocers gained momentum by understanding their customers better and differentiating their offering accordingly. Second quartile grocers have opportunities to also rise rapidly in the rankings by reinventing their relationships with their customers.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 11, 2022

The challenges for most other retailers are significant, but a number of mid-size grocers gained momentum by understanding their customers better and differentiating their offering accordingly. Second-Quartile grocers have opportunities to also rise rapidly in the rankings by reinventing their relationships with their customers.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 25, 2024

Duffy, who spoke during a recent webinar sponsored by FMI and the Acosta Group, talked about how the association is working to lay the groundwork for grocers to become a destination for nonfoods. The post FMI laying foundation to make grocers nonfoods destination appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 17, 2023

Downing Street said Shapps will spell out “that it’s clearly unacceptable to be overcharging drivers at the pump and that they need to pass on the savings to consumers, given that wholesale costs have fallen”. The regulator cautioned that competition was “not working as well as it should be” in its initial report.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 26, 2023

The grocer will also become the only supermarket to offer Freefrom pasta at the same price as standard pasta as part of the price cuts. These latest price cuts will help reassure customers that we will continue to pass on savings as soon as we see the wholesale price of food fall.

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Shopping Center

APRIL 23, 2024

have announced plans to sell an additional 166 grocery stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers in a divestiture package. Cincinnati — Cincinnati-based The Kroger Co. and Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons Cos. This… The post Kroger, Albertsons to Sell 166 Additional Stores in $2.9

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Selling off property to cut debt Morrisons was left with a sizeable debt pile following CD&R’s near £10bn acquisition of the grocer in 2021. The grocer further extended the breadth of the loyalty scheme by introducing More Card points on both its Amazon channel and in its convenience stores.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2023

Their ice cream is also available at selected outlets of Village Grocer, Ben’s Independent Grocer and Qra. But with rental costs skyrocketing in both Malaysia and Singapore, and a labour market that is tightening, they took the decision to transition to a wholesale model.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 17, 2024

With the acquisition expected to be finalized in early May, Hy-Vee is now a member of Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), which supplies Strack & Van Til’s stores in Northwest Indiana. As we remain focused on our future growth, Strack & Van Til is a great addition to the Hy-Vee family.”

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