Publix is included on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For List for the 28th consecutive year, ranking No. 42. The Lakeland, Florida-based grocer is one of just four companies to make the list every year since its inception in 1998. “Part of Publix’s mission statement is to be dedicated to the dignity, value and […]
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Posted inIndependent Store News, Market Profile, News, Southeast
B&T’s Food Fresh Market Exemplifies Independent Spirit
John Triplett is co-owner of B&T’s Food Fresh Market – a growing independent grocery company with 11 locations in Georgia and South Carolina and more planned – with Clark Brunson. The two are self-described “conservative entrepreneurs” and own other businesses in addition to raising young families. Triplett also is a vocal proponent for tort reform […]
Posted inIndependent Store News, News, West
Stokes Markets Purchases Gary & Leo’s Locations In MT
Stokes Markets will be acquiring three Gary & Leo’s stores in Montana, with the transition taking place over a three-week period this spring. Stokes will assume operations in Florence on May 22, Conrad on May 29 and Havre on June 5. The acquisition was described as a friendly transition between two family-owned grocery businesses that […]
Posted inIndependent Store News, Coborn's, Midwest
Coborn’s Acquires Kessler’s Grocery Stores In SD
Coborn’s Inc. has signed a purchase agreement to acquire two grocery stores operated by the Kessler family under the Kessler’s Food and Grocery banner in northeastern South Dakota. The locations included in the acquisition are: Kessler’s Food and Grocery: 621 6th Ave. SE in Aberdeen, South Dakota; and Kessler’s Food and Fuel: 308 N Broadway […]
Posted inIndependent Store News, News, Northeast, ShopRite
ShopRite To Hold Store Grand Opening April 13 In Watchung, NJ
A new ShopRite at 1701 U.S.-22 in Watchung, New Jersey, will open April 9 and host a grand-opening celebration with special giveaways April 13. The town’s current ShopRite will close April 8. The Sumas family and its company, Village Super Market Inc., which owns and operates the new store, will kick off the festivities at […]
Posted inIndependent Store News, News, Northeast, Wakefern
Price Rite Marketplace Kicks Off Annual Feeding Minds, Bodies Campaign
Price Rite Marketplace and Feed the Children kicked off their annual Feeding Minds & Bodies campaign with a hunger-fighting event in Rhode Island that helped hundreds of families. The gathering, the first of eight similar events planned this year, took place at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium at the start of GoProvidence’s Providence Culinary Collective, a […]
Posted inIndependent Store News, West
Heritage Grocers Group, Olive Crest Partner To Prevent Child Abuse, Neglect
Heritage Grocers Group has partnered with Olive Crest and the Child Abuse Stops Here Network to begin an in-store fundraising campaign at Cardenas Markets, Los Altos Ranch Markets, El Rancho Supermercado and Tony’s Fresh Market banner stores. One of the largest Hispanic and ethnic food retailers in the country, Heritage Grocers Group is raising money to […]
Posted inIndependent Store News, Fareway, Midwest
Fareway Breaks Ground On First Store In Kansas
Fareway Stores Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony April 1 for its first store in Kansas – a 21,000-square-foot Fareway Meat & Grocery at 15790 State Ave. in Basehor. First announced in February 2024, the store will feature a built-in smoker to provide freshly smoked items typically only offered at Fareway Meat Market locations. “The Basehor […]