To kick off Hunger Action Month, Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market announces “Nourishing our Neighborhoods,” a program created to expand capacity and capability for community-based food rescue organizations to move food from where it’s available to where it’s needed most. Whole Foods Market is donating the funds to purchase 19 refrigerated vans and donating two refrigerated […]
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Sprouts Farmers Market Hiring 110 For Orlando Store
Sprouts Farmers Market says it soon will finish construction on its new store in Orlando, Florida, and will be hiring full- and part-time workers. The 26,000-square-foot store at 7603 Turkey Lake Road will open on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7 a.m. and will be the third local Sprouts since the healthy grocer entered the Orlando […]
Walmart, Sam’s Club Donating Cash, Products To Hurricane Relief
With the catastrophic storm, flooding and power outages affecting southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, Walmart, Sam’s Club and the Walmart Foundation are committing up to $2.5 million in cash and in-kind product donations to organizations leading hurricane relief efforts. The funds and product donations will support hurricane relief efforts in the area through four non-profits […]
SOUTHEAST: Southeastern Grocers Selling 23 BI-LO And Harveys Stores
Jacksonville, Florida-based Southeastern Grocers, parent company of BI-LO, Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie stores, said Sept. 1 it has reached an agreement to sell 23 total stores: 20 BI-LO stores to Alex Lee Inc., and two BI-LO stores and one Harveys Supermarket to B&T Foods. These agreements follow the company’s previously announced decision […]
WEST: First Amazon Fresh Grocery Store Opens In California
Opening Aug. 27 in Woodland Hills, California, to select customers, Amazon Fresh is a new grocery store designed from the ground up to offer a seamless grocery shopping experience, whether customers are shopping in-store or online. The store will open to the public in the coming weeks. “We’ve taken our decades of operations experience to […]
The Giant Co.’s New Brand Platform Sets Course For Future
The Giant Co. has launched its new brand platform, For Today’s Table. Building on the new company name, logo and purpose launched earlier this year, For Today’s Table sets the course for the company’s continued growth, innovation and investment for today and into the future. For Today’s Table represents the notion that the world is […]
Lidl Plans To Add 50 New Stores, 2,000 New Jobs By End Of 2021
Lidl U.S. says it plans to open 50 new stores by the end of 2021. The stores will be located in Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia. Below is a full list of the new Lidl U.S. locations, which will bring the company’s total number of stores […]
New Whole Foods Market Now Open In Washington, D.C.
Whole Foods Market opened a new 46,000-square-foot store located at 967 Florida Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., on July 23. The store offers hundreds of local products, a variety of natural and organic grocery items and a plant-based fast-casual concept. Special features of the new store include: Friends of Whole Foods Market venue PLNT Burger, offering […]
