Raley’s Family of Fine Stores is providing free fruit to kids in stores while parents shop. Baskets of fruit are placed in the entrance of each store, as a nutritious snack option for kids under the age of 12. “Raley’s wants to connect kids with fresh and healthy food, while enhancing our customers’ overall shopping […]
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Sushi Fest At Wegmans In Fairfax, Virginia, Begins Friday
The Wegmans store in Fairfax, Virginia, will host Sushi Fest beginning Friday, Sept. 30. Guests can “experience the excitement of Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Fish Market right in our store,” according to the Rochester, New York-based grocery chain. The free event will feature unique Japanese fish, sashimi and sushi, select cuts of Kobe Beef, Shabu Shabu, […]
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SpartanNash Foundation, Customers Raise Nearly $300K To Help End Hunger
The SpartanNash Foundation’s scan campaign to end hunger was its most successful companywide retail fundraising effort to date—raising nearly $300,000 on behalf of more than 100 local food pantries and food banks in the communities it serves. Between Aug. 31 and Sept. 11, the SpartanNash Foundation hosted the companywide scan in each of SpartanNash’s […]
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Whole Foods Market Promotes Lorenzen To Pacific Northwest Regional President
Whole Foods Market has appointed Angela Lorenzen regional president of the company’s Pacific Northwest region. She will oversee 22 stores in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, including a store that opened this week in Eugene, Oregon, and a store in Victoria, B.C., opening in November. Lorenzen previously served Whole Foods Market’s Northern California region in various leadership roles, including […]
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Sprouts To Open 36 Stores In 2017, Including First Fla. And N.C. Units
Sprouts Farmers Market has revealed eight new locations to open in the first quarter of 2017. The list includes the Phoenix, Arizona-based chain’s first stores in Florida and North Carolina, marking continued growth in the Southeast. Sprouts will open a total of 36 stores in 2017. The eight new stores that Sprouts announced today will […]
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Duke Food Productions Expanding Westward With Texas Plant
Duke Food Productions, one of the top industrial food manufacturers of branded and private label brands, is establishing a new manufacturing facility in Texas. The 110,0000-s.f. plant marks the company’s first expansion outside of South Carolina. Duke anticipates a $10 million capital investment and the addition of 200 new full-time jobs at the location over […]
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Food Retailers Week In Michigan Runs Through Sept. 30
Michigan’s food industry directly supports 198,000 full- and part-time jobs, along with an additional 75,000 indirect jobs. The food industry also contributes a gross total of $24.8 billion to the state’s economy through its direct sales, indirect economic impact on other industries and employment. These are among the reasons Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has declared […]
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FDA Will Redefine ‘Healthy’ Claim For Food Labeling
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has started a public process to redefine the “healthy” nutrient content claim for food labeling. Redefining “healthy” is part of an overall plan to provide consumers with information and tools to enable them to easily and quickly make food choices consistent with public health recommendations and to encourage the […]