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...Privately held Albertsons — which operates stores under numerous brand names including its namesake Albertsons, Safeway, Jewel-Osco and Vons — said on Wednesday afternoon that it would buy Plated, which...
...Some US retailers, such as wholesale warehouse club Costco and supermarket chains Jewel-Osco and Albertsons, have even removed self-service tills from stores because shoppers did not warm to them....
...The private equity group and its partners also own other chains including Chicago’s Jewel-Osco and New England’s Shaw’s....
...Supervalu is selling frozen turkeys at between 47 and 49 cents per pound at its Albertsons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s and Cub Foods stores across the US....
...Both Walmart, where the Mead product was bought, and Supervalu , the operator of Jewel-Osco supermarkets, pulled the Enfamil powdered baby food formula from their shelves, citing an “abundance of caution...
...CVS made its first big push into California two years ago, when it bought about 300 Savon and Osco drugstores in southern California as part of the break-up of the Albertsons grocery business in 2006....
...Over the past three years, Pay By Touch’s biometric network has expanded from a pilot scheme at Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in South Carolina to more than 3,000 locations, including the Jewel-Osco chain in...
...CVS added 700 stores to its network this year with its acquisition of freestanding Osco/Savon drug stores, previously operated by Albertson’s, a supermarket group....
...Shaw’s in New England, Jewel Osco in Chicago, and Acme in Phildelphia are all in reasonable shape. Those could go to Supervalu, bidding alongside Cerberus....
...The deal was to be linked to a separate sale by Albertson’s of its 695 freestanding Osco and Savon drug stores to CVS, the leading national drug store chain....
...Biometric payment systems have been introduced during the past year in several hundred other US supermarkets, including Jewel-Osco, one of the leading supermarkets in the Chicago area, and other divisions...
...Albertsons Sav-on and Osco pharmacy chains could be attractive to rivals Walgreens and CVS, who are both expanding their networks....
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