One year before the Century’s turn a Chicago tea salesman named Frank Vernon Skiff who had saved $700 started a wagon route on his own, peddling dry groceries from door to door. He peddled for two ...

A decade ago, Jewel Tea Co. consisted of little more than a chain of Chicago-area supermarkets. Then it began branching into other lines and locations. Renamed the Jewel Companies, it has grown into a ...

Kroger, the largest traditional grocery chain in the nation, has bid to buy Albertsons, seeking to create a supermarket behemoth with nearly 5,000 stores and more than $200 billion in annual revenue.

CHICAGO - In October, the largest traditional grocery company in the country — Kroger — announced plans to acquire the second-largest such company — Albertsons — for $20 billion. In Chicago, the news ...

Inside Look is a Sacramento Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. Around 2000, Ted Ross and Eric Jensen transformed the ...