Product of the Year, the world’s largest consumer-voted award for product innovation, has announced the winners of its 2017 Product of the Year Awards. A national representative survey of 40,000 consumers conducted by Kantar TNS, a global leader in consumer research, helps determine the Product of the Year winners each year so that Americans can best […]
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Supervalu Aids Hunger Relief With $1M In Donations
Supervalu says that its Supervalu Foundation will donate $1 million to 34 nonprofits that provide hunger and food-related relief to those in need in local communities across the country. The $1 million in donations will benefit local communities in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Recipient organizations include local food bank affiliates of Feeding […]
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Food Lion Reveals Ralph W. Ketner Store Manager Excellence Award Winners
Food Lion has named five store managers as divisional award winners, making them eligible for its Ralph W. Ketner Store Manager of the Year Award to be presented later this month. These awards, named for Food Lion’s co-founder who died last year, recognize and honor exceptional store managers who the grocery chain says enrich the […]
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Buy Alabama’s Best Expands Retail Campaign From Two To Four Months
The 2017 Buy Alabama’s Best Retail Campaign Launch Awards Luncheon recently was held at The Club in Birmingham. The group is made up of the Alabama Grocers Association, the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries and the Alabama Food Manufacturers and Producers Association. The purpose of the Buy Alabama’s Best Campaign is to identify and […]
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Mackenthun’s Fine Foods Honored By Minnesota State House
Mackenthun’s Fine Foods in Waconia was honored by the Minnesota House of Representatives Feb. 6. Rep. Jim Nash presented the Mackenthun family with a House Resolution to commemorate 100 years in the grocery business. Jaime Mackenthun and Jessa Mackenthun Theis, fifth generation co-owners, were present for the reading and to accept the resolution. Rep. Nash […]
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Kellogg Co. Doing Away With DSD Model For U.S. Snacks Biz, Will Close DCs
Kellogg Co. will begin to exit its Direct Store Delivery (DSD) network in the second quarter, transitioning the DSD-distributed portion of the company’s U.S. Snacks business to the warehouse model already used by Pringles and the rest of the company’s North American business. Kellogg says the new model will be “transformational for Kellogg, reducing complexity […]
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Whole Foods Closing Nine Stores In Five Regions
Whole Foods Market said during its earnings call Wednesday that it will close nine stores in the second quarter. According to John Mackey, co-founder and CEO, the company has been moderating its lease signings and capital expenditures over the last two years. “We are also continually evaluating stores on a case-by-case basis, balancing the age, […]
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MGA Recognizes Six Minnesota Companies For Efforts To Fight Hunger
The Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) has revealed the Silver Plate Award winners of its 2016 Bag Hunger Campaign contest. The contest is part of a state-wide campaign coordinated annually by the MGA that engages Minnesotans in the fight to bag hunger in their neighborhoods. The 2016 Bag Hunger Campaign donated $15,000 to Second Harvest Heartland with an […]
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Who Are Natural/Organic Shoppers, And What Motivates Them?
In recent years, the natural and organics category has seen significant growth, but the profiles and motives of today’s natural/organics shoppers are drastically different than they were less than a decade ago. That’s according to Acosta, whose latest Hot Topic Report, “Back to Our Roots: The Rise of the Natural/Organic Shopper,” explores modern-day natural/organic consumers, including what they’re […]
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Aldi Rolling Out $1.6B Store Remodel Program
Aldi plans to remodel more than 1,300 U.S. stores by 2020, costing the retailer an estimated $1.6 billion, the company said Wednesday. The grocery chain says the upgraded stores will deliver “on its customers’ desire for a modern and convenient shopping experience with a focus on fresh items, including more robust produce, dairy and bakery […]
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Brookshire’s Dairy Plant Sale Follows Bakery Closure
Tyler, Texas-based Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) has sold its ice cream, dairy and water plants to Springfield, Missouri-based Hiland Dairy. Chairman and CEO Brad Brookshire said BGC’s “focus has always been on our retail stores, which our manufacturing plants supported. “But with an abundant offering of quality products now available through the supplier community, we […]
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Merchant Groups To Capitol Hill: Debit Swipe-Fee Reform Vital To Main Street, American Consumers
More than 60 representatives from retailers, grocers, convenience stores and restaurants are gathering in Washington, D.C., this week to meet with lawmakers. The groups say they will discuss the importance of upholding hard-fought debit swipe-fee reforms as Congress readies legislation to repeal it. In 2010, debit swipe-fee reforms introduced competition and transparency into a market […]
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Whole Foods Market To Open Newark, New Jersey, Store In Historic Building
Whole Foods Market will open its newest location in Newark, New Jersey, on March 1 in the recently renovated and historic Hahne & Co. building at 633 Broad Street. The Whole Foods Market will boast 29,000 s.f. of space, providing the Newark community access to the highest quality produce, meat, seafood, baked goods, body care, […]
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AFS Uses Technology To Simplify Print Advertising For Independents
Associated Food Stores (AFS) and eComSystems are teaming up make print advertising easier for independent grocers. The Salt Lake City-based wholesaler partnered with the technology firm in 2013 to create AFS AdStudio, a custom advertising development and production program that allows retailers to quickly and easily build custom weekly ads. Since then, the companies have worked together […]
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SpartanNash Begins Companywide Habitat For Humanity Fundraiser
Kicking off the first of four companywide retail fundraising campaigns in 2017, the SpartanNash Foundation is inviting store guests to join it in supporting local Habitat for Humanity affiliates in eight states. The retail scan campaign to provide shelter—one of the foundation’s missions—begins on Feb. 8 and will run through Feb. 19. During the 12-day […]
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DPI’s Ilharreguy To Retire This Week After 63 Years With Company
DPI Specialty Foods’ Tom “Tommy” Ilharreguy will retire Friday after 63 years of service to the California-based company. Working in and with grocery stores has been part of Ilharreguy’s life since his first after-school job during his teen years when he was a box boy for Safeway in its Sunset Boulevard store in Los Angeles. […]
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Newly Remodeled Liberty IGA And Ace Hardware Now Open In Kentucky
Liberty, Kentucky’s fully remodeled Liberty IGA store reopened its doors Jan. 18, with a ribbon cutting to celebrate. The store was expanded by about 6,000 s.f., approximately 5,300 s.f. of that in an adjacent Ace Hardware store. The store now is more than 20,000 s.f. The overall shopping center where the store is located also […]
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Kroger Buys Murray’s Cheese, Including NYC Flagship Shop
The Kroger Co. has purchased Murray’s Cheese, as well as its flagship location on Bleecker Street in New York City. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “For cheese lovers and connoisseurs, it doesn’t get more authentic than Murray’s,” said Rodney McMullen, Kroger’s chairman and CEO. “Our customers are excited to buy the unique […]
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Ahold Consolidating Stop & Shop Divisions
Ahold USA said Monday that it will consolidate its Stop & Shop New York Metro and Stop & Shop New England divisions “into one brand organization.” Offices will be in Quincy, Massachusetts. “Having a single brand organizational structure dedicated to Stop & Shop will strengthen the brand and will ensure it can better leverage its […]
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WAFC Elects Four New Directors
The Western Association of Food Chains (WAFC) has elected four new board members during its annual meeting, held last month in LaQuinta, California. Newly elected directors are: • Joe Falvey EVP, Unified Grocers; president, Market Centre, Livermore, California • Mike Hendry, EVP, marketing and merchandising, Northgate Gonzalez Markets, Anaheim • John Mathews, VP, sales and marketing, Cash&Carry […]