United Supermarkets officially entered the convenience market with the ribbon cutting of its first United Express location at the southeast corner of 4th Street and Milwaukee Avenue in Lubbock on May 4. The location includes a six-pump fuel station and features fresh offerings along with the traditional items one would expect to find at a […]
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Posted in, Corporate Store News, West
Bashas’ Family of Stores will hold four job fairs
Three in metro Phoenix and one in Tucson – to fill more than 400 full-time and part-time positions for its Food City, Bashas’ and AJ’s Fine Foods locations. WHEN & WHERE: May 3, 4, 5 and 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 University of Phoenix – Hohokam Campus 4635 E. Elwood […]
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Walmart Testing Grocery Delivery in California
Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart is testing home grocery delivery in San Jose, Calif., as the world’s largest retailer ratchets up competition with online retailer Amazon.com. With the new “Walmart To Go,” customers can order up groceries, health and beauty products such as soap, shampoo and over-the-counter medicines, and household supplies like paper towels and laundry detergent […]
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Walmart Bringing Back 8,500 Products
WalMart is bringing back more than 8,500 household products and foods that it had culled from its shelves over the past few years in an effort to reverse a sales slump in the U.S., reports the Phoenix Business Journal. Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced April 11 that it would be broadening the variety of products […]
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Grocers Lose Fight Over Full-Strength Beer
A legislative effort to let Colorado grocery and convenience stores sell full-strength beer died in a landslide on the House floor Monday after a month of intense debate on the subject, reports the Denver Business Journal. House Bill 1284, sponsored by Reps. Larry Liston, R-Colorado Springs, and Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, pitted those stores against locally […]
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Lowe’s acquires Super S Foods
by Rita Arnst Pay and Save Inc., dba Lowe’s from Littlefield, Texas, acquired the Super S Foods chain today. “The stores will be operated as Super S Foods/Lowe’s for a while. Nothing is going to change,” said James Hanson with Super S Foods public relations. “We are not going to change the signs initially, but […]
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Diet Coke Passes Pepsi
As the soft drinks industry tries to recover from a long slide, Coca-Cola Co. has new bragging rights in its rivalry with PepsiCo reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sales of Coca-Cola and Diet Coke dipped by half a percentage point and one point, respectively, in 2010. But sales of Pepsi-Cola fell 4.8 percent. Beyond the sales […]
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CVS Completes Union Avenue Purchase
CVS Care Corp. has officially closed on the former Union Avenue United Methodist Church building at Cooper and Union in Memphis, Tenn., clearing the way for the company to build a drug store. Operating as CVS 4992 TN LLC, Rhode-Island based CVS purchased the building for $2.25 million from St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. CVS […]