In its hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas, Wal-Mart opened the first Walmart to Go store this week, featuring fresh foods, prepared foods, frozen foods and coolers of refrigerated to-to foods.
Russian food retailer X5 is selling its stores in Ukraine to local rival Varus, the Ukrainian retailer said, the first Russian company to pull out of its neighbor amid a bitter political crisis.
The price war on meat products in Germany remained firmly in the focus of the country's national media over the weekend, as politicians and farmers' unions spoke out against Aldi's recent price-cuts.
Morrisons, the UK's fourth largest supermarket chain, has revealed that one of its employees has been arrested in connection with a major theft of data from its staff payroll system.
British grocer J Sainsbury's nine-year run of quarterly sales growth came to an end on Tuesday, underlining the pressure on the industry as a battle over prices intensifies in a fragile economic recovery.
Discounters continue to surpass all other U.K. supermarkets in terms of sales growth and share of the market, according to data released recently by Kantar Worldpanel.
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc (MRW), the smallest of the U.K.’s four main grocers, said profit will plunge this year and pledged to sell £1 billion ($1.7 billion) of property, sending the shares down the most since 2008.
Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize on Thursday said it expected its profits in the first quarter of 2014 to fall as it cuts its prices and invests to expand sales in the United States.
