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Albertson's, a Southern and Western U.S. grocery chain, has had enough with self-checkout lanes. Albertson's is pulling its do-it-yourself lanes in about half of its 217 company-operated stores to make way for regular and express employee-operated lanes. (The 450 stores operated by SuperValu get to...

Taylor Farms Pacific Inc. recalled grape tomatoes that were used in ready-made salads for Walmart, Safeway, Sam's Club, Albertsons and other stores because they may be contaminated with salmonella, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. So far, no one has gotten sick from eating the tomatoes,...

Palmyra Bologna Co. Inc. recalled about 23,000 pounds of Seltzer's Beef Lebanon bologna that has been linked to an e.coli outbreak in three states, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. Four consumers in New Jersey, North Carolina and Pennsylvania were...

Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge, so Consumer Ally has collected them in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week's roundup of recalls: American Suzuki Motor Corp. recalled about 29,000 Suzuki KingQuad all-terrain vehicles because the...

Hazelnuts and mixed nuts sold at major grocers nationwide including Safeway, Sam's Club, Target, Albertsons, Trader Joe's and Ralphs are being recalled after being linked to seven cases of e.coli infection in three states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said. DeFranco & Sons of Los...

My local Albertsons supermarket recently brought shoppers a blast from the past: a savings stamps program where loyal customers receive stamps for spending at the store and then trade the stamps in for certain items. In this case it's cookware. Once shoppers fill up a savings card with stamps, they...

If stores seem picked over this year, don't be fooled into thinking you just missed a crazy sale. It's deliberate. Retailers expect growth and profits in 2010 won't come from new stores, but rather from merchandising the existing ones to the hilt -- with less, but more exclusive merchandise.

According to a recent Nielsen survey, savvy recessionistas now shop at dollar stores. Wanting to be savvy, I journeyed to the nearest Dollar Tree, which makes me sound like a character in a fairy tale: "And there, Marco the Scribe found a magnificent tree and it was blooming money..." My initial...

The Albertson's supermarket chain is readying some massive price cuts on groceries. Albertson's "Big Relief Price Cut" promotion slashes prices at some 300 stores in southern California and Nevada. Last month, parent company Supervalu implemented a similar program at its Jewel-Osco stores in the...

Safeway (NYSE: SWY) is out to prove that the term "private label" is up for a revised, new and improved, economy edition. The chain yesterday announced that it had reached agreements to market its "O" organics and "Eating Right" store brand products at Albertson's, ShopRite and Exito supermarkets...