Ukrop's to Become Martin's

"They [Ahold] have a pretty good chance of improving things," said Andrew Wolf, a Richmond-based analyst for BB&T Capital Markets. "It's not like [Ukrop]'s was irredeemably broken. It doesn't need to be blown up. Ahold just needs to be careful in how they approach it." "Kroger got better, Food Lion got better and Wal-Mart isn't getting any worse," Wolf said. "Everybody else was moving forward and Ukrop's was standing still. It's not like they dribbled the ball off their knee, it was they'd only gotten to half-court."