Supervalu Inc.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ Forget the wish list. Shoppers may be giving the gift of necessity this holiday season, buying up cards for gas, groceries and even utilities to help friends and family through lean times. The gift card has become ubiquitous...

Store brands have come a long way, and they're paying off for grocers. Once simply cheap copycats, store brands are looking and functioning more like name-brand products, food industry analysts say. And they're becoming more important to conventional...

The days of rapidly rising grocery prices may be nearing an end as supermarkets push back against food companies that are reporting profit increases. With corn, wheat and other commodity costs coming off their summer peaks and the economy continuing...

Grocery stores, like consumers' food budgets, are shrinking. This month Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opened four pilot Marketplace stores in Arizona that are half the size of a traditional supermarket. Supervalu-owned Jewel-Osco is testing its own small-format...

Grocery stores, like consumers' food budgets, are shrinking. This month Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opened four pilot Marketplace stores in Arizona that are half the size of a traditional supermarket. Supervalu-owned Jewel-Osco is testing its own small-...

Monday: -- September new-home sales -- Earnings: Loews Corp.; Verizon Communications Inc. Tuesday: -- October consumer confidence -- August Case-Shiller home price index -- Earnings: AEntergy Corp.; FMC Corp.; Masco Corp.; McKesson Corp.; Valero Energy...

At a glance Today Government offices are closed for Columbus Day. Bond markets are closed. Nobel memorial prize in economics is announced in Stockholm. Tuesday Weekly Treasury auction and briefing. Quarterly earnings reports due from Genentech,...

Southeast-based produce and floral companies are coming to Orlando this month to meet colleagues from throughout the country. The Produce Marketing Association's 2008 gathering is Oct. 24-27 at the Orange County Convention Center. Fresh Summit...

State Sen. Ulysses Currie, whose ties to Shoppers Food and Pharmacy are under federal investigation, intervened several times in recent years on behalf of the grocery store chain when it was seeking public financing and other concessions as part of the...

State Sen. Ulysses Currie is entitled to have copies of materials seized from his home during an FBI raid in May, as well as the search warrant affidavit filed by the U.S. attorney's office, federal Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm ruled yesterday. Currie,...

Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller yesterday acknowledged speculation in Annapolis about Sen. Ulysses Currie's future in the General Assembly and said that he may revisit whether the Prince George's County Democrat should remain chairman of a...

The state attorney general's office has said that Sen. Ulysses Currie may not use campaign funds to pay for his legal defense in a federal investigation if the probe "relates to his conduct in office" - as it appears to do. Last month, the Prince George'...