Feb. 15 at 11:01 p.m.
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Packaged foods
By Emily Bryson York
Dominick’s parent Safeway is launching a labeling system Wednesday that highlights certain foods based on a 22 ingredients including whole grains or nutritional benefits such as reduced sodium.
Dubbed SimpleNutrition, the program uses green shelf tags to highlight 15 to 20 percent of a store’s food products, based on a variety of criteria. Get the full story »
Oct. 14, 2010 at 11:34 a.m.
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By Emily Bryson York
Dominck’s parent Safeway Inc. said lower prices drove its third-quarter profit down 5 percent, from a year ago, to $128.8 million.
Sales fell slightly, to $9.4 billion from $9.5 billion. The Pleasanton, Calif. company’s same store sales fell 2 percent, excluding fuel sales. Safeway pointed to lower prices for the same-store sales decline. Get the full story »
Sep. 23, 2010 at 3:25 p.m.
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By Emily Bryson York
Dominick’s is rolling out an online coupon program today that sorts, organizes and personalizes offers for its loyalty-card members.
The program, called “Just For U,” is designed to create a centralized location for customers to store coupons. Members will receive personalized offers based on purchase history, gleaned use of Dominick’s Fresh Values Card. Get the full story »
July 22, 2010 at 1:17 p.m.
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Earnings,
Food
By Reuters
Supermarket operator Safeway Inc., which own Dominick’s grocery stores in Chicago, cut its full-year outlook, saying it underestimated the extent of falling grocery prices in a weak economy, and its shares fell 1.5 percent.
At the height of the recession, grocery stores embarked on a price war to attract and hold onto customers. Now, as the economy improves slightly but unemployment remains high, food manufacturers are backing aggressive price cuts to woo back shoppers they lost to lower-priced store labels. Get the full story »