Just Add Cooking, a Boston meal kit company, and Roche Bros. Supermarkets are partnering to launching grab-and-go meal kits in select Roche Bros. stores. The kits—Brothers Marketplace meal kits by Just Add Cooking—will be sold in the stores, featuring locally sourced ingredients from Just Add Cooking. Just Add Cooking has been delivering locally sourced meal […]
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Food Lion Celebrates Former Farm Fresh Store Reopenings
It wasn’t quite six weeks ago that Food Lion announced it would purchase three Farm Fresh stores that would otherwise close for business in the greater Norfolk, Virginia, market. On Wednesday, May 9, these three stores, located at 1615 General Booth Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia; 608 Mercury Boulevard in Hampton, Virginia; and 683 South […]
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Neil Stern: Create Your Own Story To Remain Relevant
Editor’s note: Last month, The Shelby Report published part one of our coverage of a presentation given by Neil Stern, a senior partner at retail consultancy firm McMillanDoolittle LLP, at the Annual Meat Conference entitled “Maintaining Relevancy: Retail Trends Impacting Today’s World and Beyond.” In part one, Stern laid out demographic and consumer behavior trends, […]
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Fresh Del Monte Invests $4M In Plant-Based Meal Kit Company
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. has invested $4 million into Purple Carrot of Needham, Massachusetts, a plant-based meal kit company. The infusion of capital will help Purple Carrot to optimize its supply chain efficiency, gain access to the developing retail channel and pursue opportunities for category expansion, the company says. “Securing this strategic investment from […]
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Food Lion Investing $168M In Virginia, Will Remodel 105 Stores This Year
Food Lion plans to remodel 105 stores in the greater Norfolk, Virginia, market in 2018. The $168 million capital investment will go toward remodeling the stores, lowering prices, expanding the assortment of products, hiring approximately 5,000 new associates and promoting current associates as well as additional community partnerships through Food Lion’s hunger-relief initiative Food Lion Feeds. […]
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The Pain Points Of Prepared Foods
Sponsored content by Tyson Foods Inc. Shoppers in Tyson Foods Inc.’s Unconventional Shopper Connections experiment discussed their issues with the prepared foods shopping experience. “Purchasing prepared foods from the supermarket should be a convenience, but it is often viewed more as a compromise by the people who do it,” said Eric LeBlanc, director of channel […]
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Albertsons Market Unveils Remodeled ‘Next-Gen’ Albuquerque Store
Albertsons Market on May 2 celebrated the completion of a large-scale remodel of its Albuquerque, New Mexico, store located at 10131 Coors Boulevard. As part of the festivities, the retailer presented a $10,000 donation to Special Olympics New Mexico during the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “For more than 100 years, our company has operated on the foundational principle that […]
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Brothers Marketplace Opens With Emphasis On Fresh & Local Products
A third Roche Bros. Brothers Marketplace opened in downtown Waltham, Massachusetts, on May 1. The store is described as a “one-stop grocery shopping and dining experience with fresh foods, local and specialty products, meals and grocery essentials.” The 8,500-s.f. market emphasizes local producers and vendors that have been handpicked by store associates, including Iggy’s Breads from […]