grocery store

Men, who have endured slightly higher unemployment rates than women, have been taking on more of the household shopping, according to a recent report. The trend hasn't boded well for stores: On average, men spend less than women on each trip.

In this economy, cash-strapped consumers have become more budget conscious and less concerned about appearing cheap. As a result, better-known brands have steadily been losing ground to store-branded food products.

With food prices expected to increase by 3% to 5% this year, grocery stores are going to be forced to pass some of the extra cost on to shoppers. But what accounts for some of the highest markups in the grocery store aisles now? Perishables. Foods that easily spoil and must be thrown away before...

Salad producer State Garden Inc. recalled all its salad products made on Jan. 4 -- sold at Wegmans, Shop & Stop/Giant, Shaw's and other stores on the East Coast -- after a sample in Rhode Island showed it was contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, said the U.S. Food and Drug...

Supermarket chain Kroger boosted sales and turned a profit in its fiscal third quarter, but failed to beat Wall Street earnings estimates and lowered the top of its 2010 earnings forecast range. Shares fell 9.3% on the news to close at $21.63 Thursday.

Whole Foods shares rose Friday after a Jeffries analyst upgraded the stock, saying the grocery's strategy of offering lower-priced items has accelerated sales while maintaining low costs.

Walmart has renewed its efforts to purchase Russian supermarket chain Kopeika, following reports that competing Russian grocer X5's interest in acquiring it has waned, according to Reuters.

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...

Grocery chain Supervalu reported a net income of 31 cents per share this morning for the last quarter, which ended May 10, a 40% decline year-over-year. An after-tax charge of 12 cents per share that brought the figure down, but the quarter was still a disappointment.

In the razor-thin profit area of groceries, Amazon.com is slowly expanding its fresh-grocery business to the entire Seattle metropolitan area in the next three months, according to a Bloomberg.com story. Why Amazon, the biggest online retailer on the planet, would want to become the next Webvan is...