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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 […]