Save-A-Lot

More stores hiring to help during coronavirus

Value chains Sav A Lot and Dollar Tree Inc. become latest retailers looking to bolster store and distribution center staff; Dollar Tree aims for 25,000+ additions
Wakefern Food names new execs

The retailer has added a new chief merchandising officer, promoted a lifer to chief customer officer
Capital infusion strengthens Save A Lot

Discount retailer that leans on its private label assortment gets $138 million in new capital support, strengthening balance sheet and future goals
Save-A-Lot seeks buyer

Struggling grocer hires investment bank to explore potential deal
Topco appoints two executives

Negron, Johnson named vice presidents
Save-A-Lot permanently drops prices, initiates ‘total brand transformation’

Prices on ‘hundreds’ of national and own brand items cut by 40 percent in ‘permanent reset’
Why Amazon's private brand positioning presents challenges for brick-and-mortar retailers

Every time a shopper finds an Amazon.com product in the first row of his search, decides to try it and discovers he loves it, it is a threat to the growth of equivalent store brands everywhere else
Supervalu selling 21 Farm Fresh stores to Harris Teeter, Kroger Mid-Atlantic and Food Lion

Remaining 17 Farm Fresh outlets may also be sold

Madison Foods joins Wakefern Food’s cooperative