Southeastern Grocers has hired Gayle Shields as the company’s new VP of pharmacy. Shields will be responsible for overseeing the day-to- day and strategic operations of the company’s several hundred pharmacy locations throughout the Southeast. For nearly 30 years, Shields has worked in the pharmacy industry in various positions for Allied Health, Maxor National Pharmacy […]
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Housewares And Supermarkets: Sales Opportunities Abound
When a shopper thinks of a place to buy housewares, supermarkets probably aren’t the first thing that comes to mind; big-box retailers or department stores likely are. For specialty kitchen/cooking tools, gadgets and kitchen appliances, gourmet or specialty retailers might come to mind as well. But the supermarket channel is a major player in certain […]
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Non-Food For Thought: Why Make HBW Your Top New Year’s Resolution?
by Naomi Sleeper/director of business development, Imperial Distributors According to an Acosta study commissioned by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), sales of health, beauty and wellness (HBW) products total $84 billion annually. Grocery retailers only capture about $15 billion of those sales. This means a big opportunity for supermarkets to increase their share of HBW sales. […]
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MOM’s Organic Market Commits To Solar, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… Maryland-based MOM’s Organic Market has begun purchasing all power from a designated solar farm in Kingsville, Maryland. This 1.5-megawatt DC system is projected to output 2,124,000 kilowatts per year. MOM’s will purchase the entire system’s output for the next 20 years. The power generated by the solar farm will account […]
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Polar Bottle Donates To Pulse Nightclub Victims Fund
Polar Bottle has donated $2,684.76 in revenue from online sales of its limited edition Pride bottle to a Pulse Nightclub victims fund. The bottle, the company’s 24-oz. Sport design emblazoned with a rainbow graphic, was not intended as a fundraising item when it launched June 1. Instead, the limited edition bottle was meant to celebrate the start […]
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Butler Home Products Buys Clean Ones Glove Co., And More…
New Channels News In Brief… Butler Home Products in Hudson, Massachusetts, has purchased Clean Ones Corp., a Portland, Oregon-based household glove company with more than 30 years in the market and nearly 2 billion gloves sold each year. Butler Home Products is a consumer cleaning company, selling cleaning tools (the company’s largest business segment), lint […]
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Raley’s Donates Thousands Of Kitchen Utensils To Local Charities
Raley’s Family of Fine Stores, in partnership with Bradshaw International, has donated more than $80,000 worth of kitchen utensils to various organizations within the community. In January, Raley’s underwent a chainwide conversion from Chef Style brand kitchen gadgets to Good Cook kitchen utensils. The distributor, Bradshaw International, donated the remaining Chef Style products, which amounted […]
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Hydro Flask Unveils First Retail Wall Display At Newport Avenue Market
Hydro Flask, an award-winning leader in high-performance, insulated stainless steel flasks that are now part of housewares segment of Helen of Troy Ltd., has unveiled its first retail wall display at Newport Avenue Market in Bend, Oregon. The display is the first to be rolled out nationwide by Hydro Flask. “We are excited to kick […]