Buehler’s Fresh Foods’ new online shopping site is now live. The food retailer has enhanced its online grocery shopping service, adding some of the perks and conveniences suggested by customers. Customers at four Buehler’s locations can order groceries online for curbside pickup the same day. Locations include Wooster Milltown, Medina River Styx, Canton and Wadsworth, […]
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Posted inPiggly Wiggly, Grocery Industry, Health & Wellness, Home Page Slider, Independent Store News, Midwest, Online Grocery Technology, Store News
Piggly Wiggly Midwest Stores Now Accepting Healthy Savings
Piggly Wiggly Midwest is now accepting the Healthy Savings wellness program at all locations. Healthy Savings is a national health and wellness program helping health insurers, employers, government entities and nonprofits make healthier foods more affordable. Partnering with more than 14,000 brands and stores, Healthy Savings allows members to save more than $50 weekly on healthier […]
Posted inNational, Corporate Store News, Home Page Slider, Nonfood Items
Walmart Raises Tobacco Purchase Age To 21; Stops Some Flavor Sales
Walmart Inc. has raised the age for customers to purchase tobacco products and e-cigarettes to 21 years old and will stop selling some flavors of electronic nicotine products. Beginning July 1, anyone purchasing tobacco products at Walmart or Sam’s Club stores must be 21 years old. “There’s been a lot of discussion lately about how […]
Posted inNortheast, C-Store News
Speedway Breaks Ground For Store At Former PA Railyard
Speedway will occupy a 5-acre area for a commercial fueling station and convenience store at the site of the former Pittsburgh & Lake Erie (P&LE) Railroad Yard in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. The development, which is located within a federally designated Opportunity Zone, will complement ongoing operations of the CSX Intermodal Terminal, which opened in 2017. […]
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Home Chef Testing Three New Meal Kits In Midwest Kroger Stores
Already carried in more than 900 Kroger-owned stores nationwide, Home Chef is testing three new meal kit formats in select Kroger stores in the Midwest. The new options are: Home Chef Oven-Ready meals; Home Chef Heat & Eat meals (its first fully-cooked, ready-to-heat meals); and Home Chef Lunch Kits. “Our customers’ dinnertime needs are constantly […]
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McKee Foods Purchases Prairie City Bakery, Will Retain Employees
Collegedale, Tennessee-based McKee Foods, best known for its Little Debbie brand of snack cakes, has acquired Vernon Hills, Illinois-based Prairie City Bakery. Mike McKee, president and CEO of McKee Foods, and Bill Skeens, CEO of Prairie City Bakery, made the announcement May 3. Prairie City Bakery was co-founded by Skeens more than 25 years ago. […]
Posted inNortheast, Corporate Store News, Sustainability News
Stop & Shop Launches ‘Bags 4 My Cause’ Reusable Bag Campaign
Stop & Shop has launched Bags 4 My Cause, a chainwide program that allows customers to support local nonprofit organizations while also helping the environment. Each time a customer purchases a Bags 4 My Cause community bag, a reusable shopping tote, the Quincy, Massachusetts-based company will donate $1 of those proceeds to a local nonprofit […]
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Natural Grocers’ Second Quarter Net Sales Up 6.7%, Comps Up 2.9%
For its second quarter ended March 31, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc. said its net sales increased 6.7 percent to $230.4 million vs. the same period last year; daily average comparable store sales increased 2.9 percent vs. 7.1 percent in the prior-year quarter; operating income increased 8.4 percent to $6.1 million; net income increased […]