Raley’s on Wednesday opened a new ground-up store at the corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Douglas Road in Rancho Cordova, California. The 40,000-s.f. unit offers fresh and healthy products in a format tailored to complement the local community, according to the West Sacramento-based grocery chain. It marks the second new store Raley’s has opened in […]
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NACS Partners With The American Red Cross
The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) and the American Red Cross are teaming up to advance community giving and disaster relief programs for NACS member companies. NACS is the first retail-focused association to partner with the American Red Cross on such a program. The groups are focusing on developing resources to facilitate donation collection by convenience store […]
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Food Lion Ranked Among Points Of Light’s Civic 50
Points of Light, an organization dedicated to volunteer service, recently released its Civic 50 list, highlighting companies that are examples of good corporate citizenship. Salisbury, North Carolina-based Food Lion was the sole retailer on the list, which was announced at the Points of Light Conference on Volunteering and Service in Seattle, Washington. “Food Lion is […]
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Industry Comes Together For Independents Day Of Giving
The National Grocers Association (NGA), the trade association representing the independent supermarket industry, NGA Research and Education Foundation and Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates (ROFDA) recognized June 21 as the “Independents Day of Giving” to help fight hunger and raise community awareness with more than 1,600 independent grocers across the country participating. Shoppers are […]
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Perch’s IGA Is Great North Foods’ Retailer Of The Year
Perch’s IGA in Alpena, Michigan, has been named Great North Foods Retailer of the Year. Great North Sales Manager Steffen Nizinsky made the presentation during the company’s annual food show recently. The Curtises won the national IGA Fall Into Savings Exclusive Brands sales contest and a trip to the Super Bowl, and also received IGA […]
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Montana Community Comes Together To Build A Desperately Needed Store
by Alissa Marchat/staff writer Lodge Pole, Montana, located within the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, will have its own grocery store for the first time in decades when the Red Paint Creek Trading Post and Pantry, a nonprofit cooperative, opens this summer. Leslie “Josie” Cliff, GM and project manager, told The Shelby Report in late May […]
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Publix Sets Opening Date For First Virginia Store
Publix Super Markets will make its Virginia debut when it opens a store at 5400 Wyndham Forest Drive in Glen Allen next month. Publix at Nuckols Place will host a grand opening celebration beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday, July 15. Publix first announced its intentions to enter the Old Dominion State in early 2016, saying […]
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Dallas-Fort Worth Target Stores Debut Remodels
They say everything is bigger in Texas—so when Target announced plans for a $220-million, 28-store renovation project in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the company said there would be no holding back. It’s the retailer’s largest remodel investment in a single market in 2017 and part of its plan to reimagine hundreds of stores across the country over […]