Weigel’s fourth annual “More Wags for Warriors” fundraising campaign wraps up on Memorial Day. Weigel’s operates 67 convenience stores, a dairy and a bakery, all within a 100-mile radius of corporate headquarters in Powell, Tennessee. “More Wags for Warriors” is a capital campaign that benefits a Tennessee nonprofit organization whose mission is to enhance the […]
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Natural Grocers’ {N}Power Loyalty Program Celebrates 1 Million Members
Natural Grocers’ customer loyalty program {N}power is expected to surpass 1 million members early in the summer of 2019 and the company is planning sweepstakes to celebrate. The Natural Grocers’ customer loyalty program launched in May 2015 and provides the organic and natural retailer’s customers with digital coupons, personalized offers, rewards and other benefits. To […]
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New Walmart Home Office Campus To Be Sustainable
Company officials have been working on the sustainable design for a new Walmart home office campus in Bentonville, Arkansas. “We’ve spent the past couple of years imagining what Walmart’s ‘dream home’ might look like. We’ve thought a lot about how we want to work together as our company grows and changes,” Dan Bartlett, executive vice […]
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Superfresh Opens New Store In Linden, New Jersey
The Superfresh location at 651 North Stiles Street, Linden, New Jersey, celebrated its opening with a ribbon cutting on May 17, and a weekend-long, grand-opening celebration will run from May 24-27. Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc. announced the grand opening of its newest store. Mayor Derek Armstead, 1st Ward Councilwoman Lisa Ormon, 2nd Ward Councilman […]
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Atlanta’s Food Well Alliance Receives Whole Foods Market Donation
Atlanta nonprofit Food Well Alliance has raised $45,105 in partnership with Whole Foods Market to support its Resource Center for Urban Agriculture. On April 18, 5 percent of net sales from all 11 metro Atlanta Whole Foods stores was donated to the nonprofit as part of the grocer’s semi-annual Community Giving Day. “We are thrilled […]
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Family Fare ‘Keeping It Real’ As Part Of New Branding Promises
SpartanNash invested $18.3 million in 18 Family Fare stores in Michigan as part of its new “Keeping it Real” brand promises. Family Fare is keeping it real for store guests, with five brand promises: keeping it real local; keeping it real with value beyond price; keeping it real with affordable wellness; keeping it real socially […]
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Walmart E-Commerce Sales Grew Nearly 40 Percent In First Quarter
Walmart’s U.S. e-commerce sales grew 37 percent, according to its first quarter 2019 financial results released May 16. Other highlights of Walmart’s first quarter financial report: • Total revenue was $123.9 billion, an increase of $1.2 billion. Excluding currency, total revenue was $125.8 billion, an increase of $3.1 billion or 2.5 percent. • Walmart U.S. […]
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Students Solve Need For Brookshire Brothers Distribution Center
A group of Texas middle school students solved a problem employees were having at the Brookshire Brothers Distribution Center. Six months ago, the grocer’s Distribution Center Operations Manager Jay Jelinek never would have guessed that a sixth-grade 3D design class would have the answer to an obstacle he and his team were facing. “We recently […]