Making Change at Walmart (MCAW), a project of the United Food and Commercial Workers International labor union, is launching a campaign ahead of Walmart’s annual shareholders meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas, protesting the retailer’s recent decision to exclude workers from the meeting. “For the first time in Walmart shareholder meeting history, Walmart’s top 1 percent has changed […]
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Dollar General Celebrates Grand Opening Of Jackson, Georgia, DC
Dollar General celebrated the official grand opening of its 15th distribution center in Jackson, Georgia, this week alongside about 1,000 employees, their families and special guests. Dollar General and state and local agencies have invested approximately $85 million in the construction of the new center. The company expects its Jackson distribution center to create more than […]
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Food City Adds Two More Curbside Pickup Locations
Food City has been offering GoCart curbside pickup at select stores since late 2015, and the southeastern grocer is still working to expand the service, most recently adding a store in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Big Stone Gap, Virginia. “At Food City, we’re always looking for ways to bring added value and convenience to our shoppers,” […]
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Walmart Reports Strong 1Q Comps, E-Commerce Sales
Walmart has released its first-quarter earnings report, and its numbers are up. Total revenue for the retail giant was $122.7 billion, an increase of $5.1 billion, or 4.4 percent. Excluding currency, total revenue was $120.7 billion, an increase of $3.2 billion, or 2.7 percent. Walmart U.S. comp sales increased 2.1 percent, and comp traffic increased […]
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Food Lion Tests ‘Home Chef Kitchen’ Fully Cooked Meals
Food Lion is kicking off its new Home Chef Kitchen product pilot with samples and wine pairings at select stores. The fully cooked, single-serve meals are ready to eat in minutes and come in seven varieties: Chicken Alfredo: Grilled chicken breast in a creamy alfredo sauce, served with penne paste and green peas Classic Meatloaf: Traditional […]
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Kroger CEO Expresses Optimism In Letter To Shareholders
In the company’s annual letter to its shareholders, Kroger Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen voiced his confidence in Kroger’s future, thanks in large part to the retailer’s Restock Kroger plan. “We have the scale, data, physical assets and human connection to win with our customers today and into the future,” he wrote. “We are energetically […]
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Tribali Foods Launches Clean Meat Patties At Super Targets Nationwide
Tribali Foods, a purveyor of “clean” free-range chicken and grass-fed beef patties, has launched two of its varieties— Mediterranean Style Beef and Chipotle Chicken—in 185 Super Target locations from coast to coast. The patties are Paleo certified, Whole30 approved, Non-GMO Project Verified and free of gluten, dairy and soy. Launched in San Marino, California, in […]
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H-E-B Creates Chief Digital Officer Position As E-Commerce Grows
H-E-B has appointed Jag Bath to the newly created position of chief digital officer, overseeing all of the company’s digital products and services. The appointment was made as H-E-B continues to expand its omnichannel offerings across Texas. Bath, an entrepreneur and innovator, will continue in his current role as CEO of Favor Delivery, the on‑demand […]
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Recommended: Albertsons To Remodel Idaho store, Plans 5 New Stores
The ParkCenter Albertsons is ready for a makeover that will bring a new Starbucks kiosk, new check stands and cold cases, and an expanded salad bar. The remodel comes as Albertsons is adding stores across Ada County. The $230,000 remodel will include new floor tiles and lass doors in the dairy section of the store […]
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Food Lion Celebrates Former Farm Fresh Store Reopenings
It wasn’t quite six weeks ago that Food Lion announced it would purchase three Farm Fresh stores that would otherwise close for business in the greater Norfolk, Virginia, market. On Wednesday, May 9, these three stores, located at 1615 General Booth Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia; 608 Mercury Boulevard in Hampton, Virginia; and 683 South […]
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Sales And Income Up For Ingles Markets In 2Q Report
Ingles Markets Inc. is reporting increased sales and net income for the three and six months ended March 31, 2018. Net sales totaled $984.6 million and net income totaled $9.3 million for the second quarter, compared with $946.2 million and $9.2 million, respectively, for the second quarter of fiscal year 2017. “Our strong sales performance […]
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Supervalu Completes Sale And Leaseback Of Seven DCs
Supervalu Inc. has completed the sale and leaseback of seven of its distribution centers as part of its previously announced agreement to sell eight of its owned warehouses. With the sale of these seven facilities now complete, Supervalu has entered into lease agreements for each facility for an initial term of 20 years with five […]
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Shop ’n Save Campaign Showcases Its Competitive Prices
Shop ’n Save, an independently owned and operated grocery retailer with more than 90 stores in western Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Ohio and West Virginia, has launched its new “consumer-centric” advertising campaign. Shop ’n Save officials described the campaign as a “lighthearted, natural evolution of the grocer’s longtime tagline, Just Right,” which “goes beyond showcasing […]
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Peapod By Giant Expands Into New Zip Codes In Pennsylvania
Giant Food Stores in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is partnering with its sister company, Peapod, to expand online grocery shopping and delivery in the Reading, Birdsboro, and Temple, Pennsylvania, communities. Customers and businesses in the following zip codes can now take advantage of Peapod grocery delivery: 19508, 19560, 19601, 19602, 19604, 19605, 19606, 19607, 19608, 19609, 19610 and […]
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Ahold Delhaize Invests In Artificial Intelligence Research
Ahold Delhaize says it will use the insights gained at the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), which launched at Amsterdam Science Park on April 26, to improve its businesses in both the U.S. and Europe. In the joint ICAI-Ahold Delhaize industry lab—the AIRLab, the first lab within the ICAI—seven PhDs will conduct research into “socially […]
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Food Lion Investing $168M In Virginia, Will Remodel 105 Stores This Year
Food Lion plans to remodel 105 stores in the greater Norfolk, Virginia, market in 2018. The $168 million capital investment will go toward remodeling the stores, lowering prices, expanding the assortment of products, hiring approximately 5,000 new associates and promoting current associates as well as additional community partnerships through Food Lion’s hunger-relief initiative Food Lion Feeds. […]
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Cash&Carry Smart Foodservice Is Now Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores
Cash&Carry Smart Foodservice, a chain of warehouse-format stores catering to the foodservice industry based in Portland, Oregon, is rebranding to Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores. The change reflects more than sixty years of evolution in the foodservice industry, the company says, adding that the new name will allow it to better communicate its mission of selling quality […]
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Amazon Dominates Retail Industry In 2018 Brand Intimacy Report
Amazon continues to dominate the retail industry, according to marketing agency MBLM’s Brand Intimacy 2018 Report, a study of brands based on emotions. The retail industry ranked third overall in the study, following the media & entertainment and automotive industries, which placed first and second, respectively. In the retail category, Amazon was followed by Target and Whole Foods. […]
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Albertsons Market Unveils Remodeled ‘Next-Gen’ Albuquerque Store
Albertsons Market on May 2 celebrated the completion of a large-scale remodel of its Albuquerque, New Mexico, store located at 10131 Coors Boulevard. As part of the festivities, the retailer presented a $10,000 donation to Special Olympics New Mexico during the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “For more than 100 years, our company has operated on the foundational principle that […]
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Instacart Delivery From Sprouts Reaches Denver, Sacramento And San Diego
Residents in select zip codes in Denver, Colorado, and Sacramento and San Diego, California, now can order Sprouts groceries for delivery through Instacart. Areas included in this latest expansion are: Denver area—Boulder, Broomfield, Longmont and Parker; Sacramento area—Elk Grove and Roseville; and San Diego area—Carlsbad, El Cajon and La Jolla. The service now is available in all of […]