Category: Year In Review – 2020

2020 Year In Review

With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the headlines throughout 2020 and affecting nearly every aspect of the grocery industry, as well as life in general, The Shelby Report offers a variation of its annual look back. For the 2020 Year In Review, we present, by region, some of the most viewed – non-pandemic-related – articles that have appeared to date on theshelbyreport.com.
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NORTHEAST: Key Food Debuts Re-opening Of Bronx Location On Sept. 11

by Treva Bennett

Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc., a chain of primarily independently owned and corporate grocery stores, has announced the grand re-opening of its Key Food location at 751 Lydig Avenue in Bronx, New York. To celebrate, Key Food has offered special sales, entertainment and giveaways for customers. “Sal Bonavita and his team worked tirelessly to renovate this […]

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MIDWEST: Aldi Unveils Top 20 Fan Favorite Products For 2020

by Treva Bennett

Batavia, Illinois-based Aldi has released the second annual Fan Favorites survey results, showcasing a powerful testament to #ALDILove, with more than 177,000 shoppers voting for their most-loved Aldi-exclusive products across 20 categories. Mama Cozzi’s Take & Bake Deli Pizza earned the title of overall winner and repeated as the Fan Favorite in the easy meal […]

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WEST: Food City Supermarket In Mesa Celebrates Grand Opening

by Treva Bennett

A Food City grocery store in Mesa, Arizona, celebrated its grand opening with shoppers Wednesday, Sept. 2. At 6 a.m., the Food City store team at Brown Road and Mesa Drive began giving reusable shopping bags filled with groceries to the first 300 customers who checked out with their purchases. Highlights of the new Mesa […]

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MIDWEST: Wisconsin Grocers Association Hosts Grocery Industry Golf Outing

by Treva Bennett

The 2020 Wisconsin Grocers Association Grocery Industry Golf Outing was held Aug. 27 at Evergreen Golf Course in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. While attendees noticed many returning elements from past years such as food samples, prize challenges and brand representatives on every tee, multiple changes were implemented to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategically-placed sanitization stations were located […]

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SOUTHEAST: Southeastern Grocers Selling 23 BI-LO And Harveys Stores

by Treva Bennett

Jacksonville, Florida-based Southeastern Grocers, parent company of BI-LO, Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie stores, said Sept. 1 it has reached an agreement to sell 23 total stores: 20 BI-LO stores to Alex Lee Inc., and two BI-LO stores and one Harveys Supermarket to B&T Foods. These agreements follow the company’s previously announced decision […]

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WEST: First Amazon Fresh Grocery Store Opens In California

by Treva Bennett

Opening Aug. 27 in Woodland Hills, California, to select customers, Amazon Fresh is a new grocery store designed from the ground up to offer a seamless grocery shopping experience, whether customers are shopping in-store or online. The store will open to the public in the coming weeks. “We’ve taken our decades of operations experience to […]

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MIDWEST: CR Brands Unveils New Arm & Hammer Essentials Disinfecting Wipes

by Mary Margaret Stewart

Cincinnati, Ohio-based CR Brands recently announced the launch of Arm & Hammer Essentials Disinfecting Wipes, which feature a citrus-based disinfectant formula that kills 99.9 percent of viruses & bacteria and cleans without harsh chemicals.  And since the active ingredient is citrus-based, and they contain no quaternary ammonium chloride compounds like other leading brands, these new disinfecting wipes are […]

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WEST: Food City, Bashas’ And AJ’s Fine Foods Issue #HatchAtHome Challenge

by Treva Bennett

Hatch Green Chile season is here until mid-September in more than 100 Food City, Bashas’ and AJ’s Fine Foods stores throughout Arizona. Now until Sept. 8, Arizonans are invited to a #HatchAtHome Challenge in celebration of the season. Food City, Bashas’ and AJ’s Fine Foods are wanting to see what their customers can make with […]