Challenge To Walmart, Dollar General Is Winning Over Millennials

May 31, 2016 Phil Wahba, Fortune

Dollar General, the largest such U.S. discount chain with 12,700 stores, said this week that young adult shoppers now account for 24% of its sales. That amounted to $1.26 billion last quarter, as total revenue rose 7%.

Kroger Exec: Simple Truth 'Unlocks A Mystery' Of Private-Label Product Sales

Kroger Co.’s Simple Truth natural and organic store brand has won acceptance from consumers so fast that it’s solving a key mystery for Kroger executives.

How Whole Foods Launched A Tasting Program To Boost Its Private Label Products

May 31, 2016 Megan Giller, Fortune

Three years ago, Whole Foods hired a firm to put together a tasting program to maintain a high level of quality and consistency in its private-label products.

Mars Super Markets Will Close All Stores July 31

Mars Super Markets, a family-owned fixture in Baltimore's grocery landscape since the 1940s, will close its stores this summer, laying off hundreds of employees amid declining sales and intense competition.

New York Apple Exporters Unite To Meet Specs Of UK Market

UK consumers enjoy New York-grown Empire apples. Jim Allen, president of the New York Apple Association (NYAA), based in Fishers, NY, wants to underscore this fact and increase the presence of the state’s namesake nicknamed apple by letting retailers know the NYAA considers the UK an important export market.