H-E-B opened the new Buffalo Heights location Wednesday, Oct. 9, further expanding the company’s inner loop footprint in Houston. The store anchors the new Buffalo Heights mid-rise project at Washington Avenue and Heights Boulevard at 3663 Washington Avenue. It marks the first H-E-B built in a mixed-use development. The brand new, 96,000-s.f. store features expansive […]
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Giant Food Stores Expanding Giant Choice Rewards Program
Carlisle, Pennsylvania-based Giant Food Stores is expanding its Giant Choice Rewards program across the chain. An enhancement to Giant’s previous Gas Extra Rewards program, Choice Rewards brings customized savings and rewards right to customers’ with the Giant or Martin’s app. “When we designed Giant Choice Rewards, we did so with today’s families in mind,” said Matt […]
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Spindrift Sparkling Water Now Available In All Publix Stores
Spindrift sparkling water now is available at Publix grocery store locations throughout the Southeast. Spindrift says it is pioneering a new segment of sparkling water focusing on real, traceable ingredients. Using water, bubbles and real squeezed fruit, all products are free from added sweeteners or natural flavors, and are made with fruit that is picked […]
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Inserra Supermarkets Donates To Diabetes Institute Foundation
Inserra Supermarkets presented the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRIF) with a donation of $180,454.24 generated from the company’s annual summer Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) fundraiser. The event takes place at all the company’s stores including its 23 ShopRite stores in Bergen, Hudson and Passaic counties in New Jersey and Rockland County, New York, and Price […]
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Lidl US To Provide Medical Benefits To All Of Its Employees
Lidl US will provide medical benefits for all its employees in more than 70 stores regardless of the number of hours they work per week. Starting Jan. 1, 2020, around 1,200 team members working part-time will be eligible to buy into medical coverage through the company. “We want our team to have the peace-of-mind knowing […]
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Iowa-Based Yesway To Acquire 300-Store Allsup’s Chain
Yesway is acquiring Clovis, New Mexico-based Allsup’s Convenience Stores, which has a portfolio of 304 stores in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Some Allsup’s have served local communities for more than 60 years. “Allsup’s founders, Lonnie and Barbara Allsup, were true pioneers, innovators and visionaries of convenience store retailing,” said Yesway Chairman and CEO Thomas Nicholas […]
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Fast Phil’s Convenience Stores Introduce NCR Self-Checkout
As a first step in its partnership with NCR Corp., Raymer Oil will introduce NCR self-checkout technology powered by NCR FastLane software in all 46 Fast Phil’s stores across the U.S. “We were looking for a strategic partner that could help to modernize and automate our stores in the highly competitive fuel and convenience market,” says […]
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Dematic Launches Micro-Fulfillment Solution, Brings It To Meijer
Dematic has made its micro-fulfillment solution commercially available. The automation solution gives customers with high throughput requirements the flexibility to fulfill orders quickly and in a small footprint. The Dematic solution empowers customers to maximize space and achieve profitability with e-commerce ordering, ultimately advancing their omni-channel distribution strategy to give customers what they want when […]