Month: February 2014

Bi-Lo Holdings, LLC, parent company of BI-LO and Winn-Dixie supermarket chains, today announced the difficult but necessary decision to close eight of the acquired Delhaize America and five Bi-Lo Holdings stores due to close geographic proximity. …

Sam's Club is quietly testing a new subscription service that allows customers to order items like diapers and printer cartridges online, a sign the Internet is beginnng to threaten areas of retail that were once considered relatively safe. …

Nearly twenty years after the Nutrition Facts labels were put on the back of nearly every food and beverage in stores, interest in reading the label has steadily waned among U.S. households, according to The NPD Group, a leading global information company. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing updates for the Nutrition Facts label to make it more relevant to today’s consumers, but according to NPD’s ongoing food and beverage market research, consumers read the labels when they first appeared but as time went on many stopped checking the label for what’s in their food. …