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Food Lion MVP Customers Save Millions With Shop & Earn Rewards

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 […]

Posted inNonfood Items, Corporate Store News, Independent Store News, Marketing News, Southeast

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 […]

Posted inBakery News, Center Store, Deli News, Grocery Store Layout, Home Page Slider, Independent Store News, Midwest

Hy-Vee To Bring Dollar Fresh Locations To 6 Iowa Communities

Hy-Vee has agreed to acquire six former Shopko locations in Iowa that will re-open under the Dollar Fresh brand by late summer. In the upcoming weeks, several former Shopko locations will begin renovations to open as Dollar Fresh stores. The former Shopko buildings in Hampton, Cresco, Oelwein, Waukon, Dyersville and Vinton are all part of […]

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Recommended: Save A Lot Closes 3 NE Florida Stores, A Fourth Expected

Another grocery retailer, Save A Lot, is closing some area stores. The discount grocery chain closed at least three stores in Northeast Florida since December. Those are in Southgate Plaza and the Edgewood Avenue Shopping Center in Jacksonville and at Tuesday Morning Plaza in Orange Park. The Jacksonville Daily Record was told that employees were […]

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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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Updated: Service Set for Twain Harte Market Owner Parriott

Family and friends of Robert (Bob) Bernard Parriott, owner of Twain Harte Market in Twain Harte, California, will gather at 11 a.m. at the Black Oak Casino Conference Room in Tuolumne on March 8, 2020, to honor the life of a passionate grocer, loving father and grandfather, and devoted husband. Mr. Parriott died in a […]

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New York’s Grace’s Marketplace Offers Same-Day Grocery Delivery

Grace’s Marketplace, the European-style neighborhood market in New York City, is offering online delivery through Mercato, the online grocery e-commerce platform for independently owned grocery and specialty food stores. Grace’s Marketplace, which located on New York’s Upper East Side, with a second location in Greenvale, New York, will offer same-day delivery of globally sourced gourmet products, […]

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4Keeps Roses Available In Select 7-Elevens This Valentine’s Day

Beverly Hills, California-based 4Keeps Roses Inc. has its specially preserved roses available for purchase at select 7-Eleven stores across the United States for Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. Grown in the rich agricultural region of the Andes Mountains, the roses are picked at their peak. They are shipped directly to the company’s Southern California workshop for […]