A Supermarket Megamerger Will Redefine What You Buy at the Grocery Store
Kroger and Albertsons want to merge in a $20 billion deal. If antitrust regulators approve, the definition of a grocery...
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Kroger, Albertsons CEOs Defend Grocery Merger at Senate Hearing
The companies’ CEOs are likely to face questions on how the proposed $20 billion deal would affect competition and shoppers....
Supermarket Discounts Are Harder to Find as Food Prices Rise
In U.S. supermarkets, toilet paper and noodles are back in stock, but one prepandemic staple has yet to fully return:...
How One Grocery Chain in Pennsylvania Is Preparing for a Downturn
Supermarket chain Karns Foods says it is getting ready for a recession.The family-run company in Mechanicsburg, Pa., is carrying more...
More Shoppers Buy Store Brands, Eating Into Big Food Companies’ Sales
Cost-conscious consumers are buying more store brands at the supermarket, raising pressure on big food companies that are dealing with...
Baby-Formula Shortage Prompts Rationing at Target, Kroger, Walgreens and CVS
The biggest U.S. retailers are rationing baby formula as a recall by the maker of Similac and other popular brands...
Carl Icahn Targets Kroger Over Pork, CEO Pay
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is seeking two board seats at Kroger Co., pushing the U.S. supermarket giant to make...
Inflation, Shortages Push Americans to Switch Brands More Than Ever
Well-known brand names and flashy ad campaigns are no longer enough to command U.S. consumers’ loyalty in grocery stores. Source...
Food and Medicine Shortages in Ukraine Prompt Global Relief Effort
With food and medicine supplies threatened across Ukraine, domestic and international food manufacturers, distributors and aid workers are mobilizing to...
The Hidden Ways Companies Raise Prices
Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc., a Chicago-based restaurant group, has added a 3% “processing fee” to checks at many of...
What CEOs Are Saying About Inflation: ‘The World Has Changed’
This is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said on their quarterly earnings calls this week about what they...
Kroger Workers Approve New Contract After Nine-Day Strike
More than 8,000 workers at Kroger Co. KR -3.12% ’s King Soopers grocery stores ratified a new three-year contract following...
Grocery Stores Cut Hours, Services as Omicron Infects Workers
Some U.S. supermarkets are reducing hours and cutting services as Covid-19’s Omicron variant infects cashiers, baggers and stockers, deepening grocery...
Walmart, Kroger Raise Prices of Covid-19 Test Kits
Prices are going up for some of the cheapest and most popular at-home Covid-19 test kits in the U.S. Walmart...
Consumers Trade Rib-eye for Ground Beef as Grocery Prices Rise
Americans are cutting back on steak as rising grocery prices squeeze spending. Supermarkets say shoppers are buying more store-brand meat...
Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Retailers Vetted Theranos Without Testing Devices
SAN JOSE, Calif.—In 2010, Theranos Inc. was courting two major retailers, hoping to put its laboratory technology in busy pharmacies...
Supply Chain Bottlenecks Drive Factory Decisions at This Maker of Boats, Motorcycles, ATVs
Like other manufacturers struggling with wobbly supply chains, sports-vehicle maker Polaris Inc. PII -0.40% is deciding what to produce based...
New Face-Mask Rules Put Grocery Workers Back at Center of Debate
Supermarket workers are back in the middle of a national conversation about face masks. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTSWhat more should be...
