Marsh Supermarkets rolls out new pricing strategy
The Fishers-based chain said it will reduce prices on thousands of items and keep them there for three months.
The Fishers-based chain said it will reduce prices on thousands of items and keep them there for three months.
The Fishers-based supermarket chain is shifting into expansion mode with a mission to construct up to 10 new stores and revamp or rebuild several more over the next three years.
Marsh Supermarkets Inc. plans to outsource distribution services for all 97 of its stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. Marsh said 250 logistics workers will become employees for C&S.
Marsh Supermarkets is reoccupying a portion of its long-vacant headquarters building and has snagged a plum tenant to sublease most of the rest of the space.
Marsh Supermarkets has hired grocery executive David C. Siegel to the new position of senior vice president of merchandising and marketing strategic initiatives. He follows new CEO Joseph M. Kelley from Price Chopper in New York.
Citing new information, U.S. Magistrate Tim A. Baker now says lawyers for Marsh Supermarkets can depose David A. Marsh, son of the company’s former CEO, Don Marsh. Baker previously ruled that he couldn’t be deposed.
A federal magistrate ruled in favor of David Marsh in an attempt by lawyers for Marsh Supermarkets to depose him in the company’s lawsuit against his father, ex-CEO Don Marsh.
A new brief in a lawsuit against former CEO Don Marsh alleges he had an affair with a Russian ice ballet director, bankrolled with company funds.
Attorneys for Marsh Supermarkets say the grocery chain's former president defrauded the company of millions of dollars, using it as his "personal piggy bank" to fund extramarital relationships.
As expected, grocery industry veteran Joseph M. Kelley has been named chairman, president and CEO of Marsh Supermarkets Inc., the Indianapolis-based company said early Monday.
John Elbin forced the ailing grocery chain to confront its problems during his five months with the company.
Attorneys for David Marsh say information the executive has received from the IRS suggest he might face both criminal and civil charging stemming from expenses he submitted for reimbursement while serving as president of Marsh Supermarkets Inc.
Don Marsh is so hellbent on winning his legal battle with Marsh Supermarkets Inc. that he’s willing to sully his own reputation if that’s what it takes.
Supermarket News, citing unnamed industry sources, reported late Tuesday that former Price Chopper executive vice president Joseph Kelley would replace Frank Lazaran, who has been CEO of Marsh Supermarkets since 2006.
Marsh Supermarkets Inc. has agreed to pay a total of $42,500 to settle a National Labor Relations Board case accusing the grocery chain of interfering with workers’ attempts to unionize.
The National Labor Relations Board has asked a federal judge to order Fishers-based Marsh Supermarkets to rehire a pro-union worker whom the company fired.
National Labor Relations Board accuses supermarket chain of intimidating employees at its Beech Grove store for supporting an attempt to unionize. The charges follow a similar complaint NLRB made in November involving Marsh’s Georgetown Road store.
The supermarket chain has closed a store in Rushville and will shut others in Shelbyville and Connersville by the end of February. The closures will leave Marsh with 97 stores, about half of which are in Indianapolis.
The National Labor Relations Board filed a formal complaint after investigating charges that Marsh Supermarkets threatened and intimidated employees to discourage them from forming a union. The grocery chain also allegedly fired an employee for supporting the union.
The name change could be part of a strategy to rebrand Hometown Markets and make them more appealing for an eventual sale.