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MINNEAPOLIS - Nash Finch intends to boost its customers' price-competitiveness behind a program to stock the distributor's private-label items - and remove their competitors.
Retailers that agree to participate in the program, which launched last month, will get more competitive pricing on the items if they add them while also removing competing items - mostly regional packer brands - from the shelves, Alec Covington, Nash Finch's chief executive officer, said last week. Nash Finch's private brands include the Our Family, Value Choice and Nash Brothers Trading Co. labels.
"The goal is that both our customers and ourselves can drive our business forward faster in building our...