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EBT Chip Cards, Other PFMA Priorities Get PA State Funding

by Shelby Team

The Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association said several of its legislative priorities were included in the 2026-27 Pennsylvania state budget, which was passed on Sunday, July 19. The budget authorizes the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services to transition electronic benefit transfer cards from magnetic stripe to encrypted chip technology by the start of 2028. The change […]

Posted inNonfood Items, Center Store, Featured News, Independent Store News, Midwest, News

Meijer Cuts Prices On Nearly 200 Back-To-School Items

by Shelby Team

Meijer is lowering prices by up to 50 percent on nearly 200 school supplies and grocery items ahead of the 2026-27 school year, including more than 50 supplies priced under $1. The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based retailer’s promotion runs through Sept. 8 and covers both Meijer brand and national-brand items commonly found on classroom supply lists […]

Posted inCorporate Store News, Featured News, News, Northeast

Giant Co. Tweaks Layout, Assortment At Remodeled PA Stores

by Shelby Team

The Giant Co. will hold grand reopenings July 24 at its two Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, stores following several months of renovations. Both locations – 925 Norland Ave. and 993 Wayne Ave. – remained open during the work. The remodels updated fresh departments including produce, bakery, meat and seafood, along with center store aisles. The company said […]

Posted inIndependent Store News, Featured News, Stater Bros. Markets, West

Stater Bros. Breaks Ground On Fourth Menifee Store

by Shelby Team

Stater Bros. Markets held a groundbreaking ceremony July 9 for a supermarket at the northwest corner of McCall Boulevard and Menifee Road in Menifee, California. Company leadership was joined by several Menifee City Council members and city officials. The store will anchor the McCall Square shopping center, which also will include a McDonald’s and more […]

Posted inGrocery Research, Featured News, Meat/Seafood/Poultry, National, News

Survey: 55 Percent Of Consumers Are Buying Less Beef

by Shelby Team

Fifty-five percent of U.S. consumers are buying less beef or have stopped entirely amid rising prices, the New World screwworm outbreak and global trade disruptions, according to the 2026 Consumer Grocery and Protein Trends survey released July 21 by Blue Yonder. At the same time, one-third of consumers have increased their overall protein purchases in […]

Posted inIndependent Store News, Featured News, News, Northeast

Grocery Market Returns To NJ’s Point Pleasant Beach

by Shelby Team

The official opening of The Market of Point Pleasant Beach on Friday, July 24, will return a full-service supermarket to Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, according to Associated Supermarket Group. The store, which had a soft opening earlier in July, took over a former Stop & Shop space. Independently owned and operated by Shap Markets, […]

Posted inWholesaler/Distributor News, Association News, Featured News, National, News

All ROFDA Wholesalers Now Have Joint FMI Membership

by Shelby Team

Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates members Affiliated Foods, AG Northeast, Certco and Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Company have joined the FMI – The Food Industry Association. With these additions, all of ROFDA’s current wholesaler members now are FMI members. Associated Food Stores, Associated Grocers Baton Rouge, Associated Wholesale Grocers, Brookshire Bros. and URM Stores […]

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Remodeled Baltimore Giant Now Offers Sushi, Ledo Pizza

by Shelby Team

Giant Food celebrated the grand reopening of its remodeled store at 6340-50 York Road in Baltimore on July 19, starting with a community event starting at 9 a.m. The store showcases an expanded seafood department, a broader selection of international foods, a Ledo Pizza corner shop, a full-service sushi bar with an in-store chef and […]

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NGA Asks NJ Gov. To Amend Fair Price Protection Act Before Signing

by Shelby Team

The National Grocers Association is urging New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill to make “targeted, common-sense changes” to the Fair Price Protection Act (A4085) before signing it into law. In a July 17 letter to Sherrill, NGA outlined revisions it says would preserve the bill’s consumer transparency goals while avoiding unintended consequences for independent grocers. The […]

Posted inIndependent Store News, Featured News, News, Vallarta Supermarkets, West

Vallarta To Open Store In Food Desert Area Of South Phoenix

by Shelby Team

Vallarta Supermarkets is planning to open its first Phoenix location in South Phoenix, according to a report on the city’s website. The story said the project is “an adaptive reuse, transforming a currently vacant space into a full-service, culturally rich grocery store. The placement of this grocery store will help address a food desert in […]

Posted inProduce News, Featured News, Independent Store News, News, Northeast, Wakefern

Wakefern Produce Summit Aims To Boost Local, Regional Growers

by Shelby Team

Wakefern Food Corp. hosted its annual Local Produce Supplier Summit on July 15 at the New Jersey Convention and Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey, bringing together local and regional growers, agricultural leaders and the cooperative’s produce procurement teams. At the event, Ross Farnsworth, VP of produce and floral for Wakefern, reaffirmed the cooperative’s recently […]

Posted inGrocery Research, Featured News, National, News, Online Grocery Technology

Delivery Leads As Online Grocery Growing Again, Coresight Finds

by Treva Bennett

Online grocery shopping returned to growth in 2026, with 56.3 percent of U.S. consumers purchasing groceries online in the past 12 months, up from 53.6 percent in 2025, according to Coresight Research‘s ninth annual US Online Grocery Survey. The increase reverses two consecutive years of decline, and 58.7 percent of respondents said they expect to […]

Posted inHealth & Wellness, Featured News, Grocery Research, National, News

Survey: Convenience Bigger Concern Than Health For U.S. Shoppers

by Shelby Team

For the first time in the 21-year history of the IFIC Food & Health Survey, convenience has overtaken healthfulness as a driver of what Americans put in their carts, according to new research from the International Food Information Council. Taste (88 percent) and price (78 percent) remain the top two factors shaping food and beverage […]