Food Lion recently celebrated the two-year anniversary of its innovative Shop & Earn MVP rewards program. With Shop & Earn, MVP customers have saved more than $58 million in the past two years on top of their usual MVP savings. Since the program’s full banner inception in February 2018, customers have loaded their monthly Shop […]
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Earth Fare Store Leases, Intellectual Property Assets Up For Sale
A&G Real Estate Partners (AGREP) and Hilco Streambank have been engaged by Asheville, North Carolina-based Earth Fare to market and sell all Earth Fare stores and leases, and its intellectual property, respectively. Earth Fare, the natural and organic grocer, announced liquidation sales at all of its stores on Feb. 3, and filed for Chapter 11 […]
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Sprouts Farmers Market To Open Cave Creek, AZ, Store Feb. 19
Sprouts Farmers Market will open in Cave Creek, Arizona, at 5355 East Carefree Highway on Wednesday, Feb. 19. More than 100 new team members will be led by Store Manager Tom Critz, who has been with Sprouts in various leadership positions since 2011 and most recently managed the store at Scottsdale and Pinnacle Peak Roads. “Tom […]
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Jewel-Osco Celebrates Black History With Special Event
The Jewel-Osco 21st Annual “Celebrating Black History” kickoff event on Jan. 30 “ truly was electric,” according to company officials. It was held at the store located at 1655 E. 95th Street in Chicago. Events also were held on different dates at other Chicago locations and the Homewood Jewel-Osco. The events featured: Tastings from more than […]
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Community Helps Walmart Associate, Chiefs Superfan Get To Big Game
Throughout his hometown of Versailles, Missouri, Dustin Pryor is known for three things: his strong work ethic, his joyful spirit and his undying devotion to the Kansas City Chiefs. Pryor’s love for the team started when he was a boy watching games with his brothers. A Walmart associate, Pryor has worked at Store 357 in […]
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2020: NGA Reveals Creative Choice Awards Category Winners
The National Grocers Association (NGA) has revealed this year’s winners in its Creative Choice Awards contest, sponsored by Kellogg’s and Unilever. The contest honors the best marketing and merchandising campaigns in the grocery industry that positively impact sales, benefit the community and stand out creatively. Entries are judged by a panel of 26 industry experts. The Creative […]
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SOUTHEAST: Earth Fare Closing Stores, Begins Inventory Liquidation Sales
Asheville, North Carolina-based Earth Fare, a specialty natural and organic grocery store and full-service supermarket, will begin inventory liquidation sales at all of its stores, according to a press release issued today. Pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), all employees have been notified of the impending closure of the company’s stores […]
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CVS Health Completes Acquisition of Target’s Pharmacy And Clinic Businesses
CVS Health Corp. has completed the acquisition of Target Corp.’s pharmacy and clinic businesses for approximately $1.9 billion. With the completion of the transaction, CVS Health acquired Target’s 1,672 pharmacies across 47 states and will operate them through a store-within-a-store format, branded as CVS/pharmacy. In addition, a CVS/pharmacy will be included in all new Target stores […]