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PCC Community Markets Launches Its Own Meal Kit Line

PCC Community Markets (PCC), a community-owned food market, is rolling out subscription-free “Scratch-made Meals at Home” meal kits, now available throughout Seattle via Instacart and Amazon Prime Now and for in-store purchase at its Greenlake Village store. Created by PCC’s in-house chefs, each kit features original recipes—like Sesame-Gochujang Steak with Kimchi Fried Rice & Shirred […]

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Coborn’s Opens Fifth ‘Next-Gen’ Store In Delano, Minnesota

Guests and employees will celebrate the grand reopening of the Coborn’s in Delano, Minnesota, this month after a remodeling project that transformed it into the company’s fifth “next-generation” grocery store. The grand reopening, taking place on Thursday, April 26, from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., will begin with live music from Charlie Roth at 3:00 […]

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Winn-Dixie Unveils New Concept With Remodeled St. Johns, Florida, Store

Winn-Dixie has reopened its remodeled store in St. Johns, Florida, in the Jacksonville area. The store offers a new concept and features in response to customers who asked for an improved shopping experience, the company says. As part of the grand opening ceremony and to officially reintroduce the community to the new and improved store at […]

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Plated Meal Kits Launching In Albertsons Cos. Stores Nationwide

Meal kit service Plated and its parent company, Albertsons Cos., are starting the next phase of what they say is their long-term plan to “transform the way consumers create meals at home, from planning and shopping to cooking and eating.” By the end of the year, Plated plans to make meal kits available in hundreds […]

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Land O’Frost Acquires Wellshire Farms, Enters Natural, Organic Market

Land O’Frost, a brand of pre-sliced deli meats and a producer of specialty sausage products, has purchased Swedesboro, New Jersey-based Wellshire Farms Inc. Wellshire is an established leader in the natural and organic meat space, says Land O’Frost. Its products are sold in specialty grocery retailers such as Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe’s, Sprouts Farmers […]

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Bridgewater, New Jersey, Whole Foods Features In-Store Mushroom Farm

Whole Foods Market Bridgewater, the first Somerset County, New Jersey, location for the natural and organic food retailer, opened late last week at 319 Chimney Rock Road at Route 22. The 49,000-s.f. store offers the grocer’s first indoor mushroom farm, developed in partnership with Smallhold, a New York City-based company that works with restaurants, grocery stores and […]

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New York, Philadelphia & Miami Top Best Cities For Fresh Food Access

New York is the best city for fresh-food access, with 75 percent of its residents living within a five-minute walk of a grocery store or year-round farmers market, followed by Philadelphia at 64 percent and Miami at 57 percent. This is according to a new report by real estate brokerage Redfin, which analyzed Walk Score data for 48 major […]

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ShopRite Offers Gourmet-Style, Better-For-You Meal Kits

ShopRite has launched a line of gourmet-style meal kits for customers seeking convenient, creative dinners with better-for-you ingredients. The packaged kits, available at select ShopRite stores in the supermarket’s six-state trading area, include a variety of entrees such as Thai Coconut Chicken, Chicken Marsala, Korean Beef Stir Fry, Moroccan Chicken and Pork Scaloppini. Each recipe […]