Retail News

Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Busch's Fresh Food Market is closing the pharmacies at its 15 stores to focus on groceries, Dexter.Patch.com said.

Kraft Foods Group will begin producing and selling Maxwell House and Gevalia coffee in pods designed to work with Keurig single-serve brewing machines, Reuters said.

Retail sales rose 1.1 percent in September from August, suggesting a lift in consumer confidence is fueling higher sales of electronics, restaurant meals and food,

Safeway reported a decline in third-quarter sales, reflecting a highly competitive environment and the loss of Genuardi's store sales, Reuter said.

Kraft Foods Group reportedly plans to sell its Breakstone's sour cream and cottage cheese business, Bloomberg.com said.

As the number of neighborhood butcher shops has declined, The Meat House intends to fill the gap in northern New Jersey by opening a location in Summit in November and locations in other suburban downtowns in the future,

By tapping the brand power of Walmart with its Bluebird prepaid card, American Express aims to vastly expand the cards' distribution and use.

Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper will introduce vending machines in 2013 displaying calorie counts of products on the buttons consumers press to purchase a drink, the Associated Press said.

Following a poor growing year, smaller apple stocks may cause supermarket shoppers to see as much as a $1 bump in the per-pound price of the fruit this year and next, said

McDonald’s might be intending to sell coffee in stores following its decision to file a trademark for its own brand of ground and whole-bean coffee, reported

Increased sales of food and other basic goods generated store traffic and resulted in Family Dollar Stores reporting a higher profit in its most recent fiscal quarter, Reuters said.

Buyout firms KKR & Co. and TPG Capital and billionaire Ronald Burkle reportedly are interested in purchasing parts of Supervalu, but not the whole company, Bloomberg.com said.