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Food prices steering more shoppers to discount grocers (3/4ページ)
独系ディスカウント店アルジ（テネシー州ナッシュビル）でスパゲティ･ソースを探す客のロン・グリーンさん。低価格商品やＰＢ商品を買い求める客が増えてきたためディスカウント店は店舗を増やす計画だ（ＵＳＡ ＴＯＤＡＹ）DISCOUNT-GROCERS -- Ron Green shops for spaghetti sauce at an Aldi store in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, April 24, 2008. Some discount grocers such as Aldi are expanding their store operations as more consumers come to their stores looking for discounts and private-label brands to save money. (Gannett News Service, Shelley Mays/The Tennessean)"To really regain the consumer confidence, it's important to hold our prices and lower them if possible," Hassen said.
Competition has increased among all grocers as commodity prices continue to rise, said Jaime Powers, spokeswoman for another discount grocer, Save-A-Lot.
Save-A-Lot's parent company, Minneapolis-based Supervalu Inc., reported net earnings of $156 million for the three months ending Feb. 23, up 30 percent from a year earlier.
"Save-A-Lot is well positioned and we expect another solid year on Save-A-Lot this year," said Jeff Noddle, Supervalu's chairman and chief executive officer, during a recent conference call.
Some consumers are trying to rein in costs when it comes to purchasing food, with one-third of adults surveyed in March indicating their financial situation was worse than a year ago, according to research firm NPD Group. Of this group, 47 percent said they were buying more private labels, and 54 percent were stocking up more on sale items compared with a year ago, NPD said.
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