Giant Food Stores celebrated the grand opening of the new Walnutport store located at 300 S. Best Avenue on May 17. The new 55,000-s.f. store operates 6 a.m.-midnight seven days a week and employs approximately 200 full- and part-time associates. “We are so proud to have joined the Walnutport community, and our team is ready […]
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Ocean Spray Opens Lighthouse Innovation Hub In Boston
Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc., the farmer-owned cooperative, has opened a marketing and innovation hub called Lighthouse within the Seaport District of Boston, Massachusetts, establishing an urban footprint in the Silicon Valley of the East Coast. Ocean Spray’s innovation and marketing teams are based out of the Lighthouse, inspiring collaboration, creativity and ingenuity both internally and […]
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Cardenas Markets Expanding With Four New Stores In 2019
Ontario, California-based Hispanic grocer Cardenas Markets is opening four new stores in Nevada, California and Arizona in 2019. The first of these is a store in Las Vegas that opened in early May. It is the company’s fifth store in Las Vegas and the 56th store for the grocer overall. The other Cardenas Markets that […]
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Nestlé To Close Eight DCs, Transition To Warehouse Model
Nestlé USA will exit its company-owned frozen direct-store-delivery (DSD) network for its pizza and ice cream businesses and transition to a warehouse model. The company says the change will leverage the warehouse network that Nestlé already uses for its frozen meals and snacks. The phased transition will commence in the third quarter of 2019 and […]
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Home Chef Testing Three New Meal Kits In Midwest Kroger Stores
Already carried in more than 900 Kroger-owned stores nationwide, Home Chef is testing three new meal kit formats in select Kroger stores in the Midwest. The new options are: Home Chef Oven-Ready meals; Home Chef Heat & Eat meals (its first fully-cooked, ready-to-heat meals); and Home Chef Lunch Kits. “Our customers’ dinnertime needs are constantly […]
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New Cub Store Anchors Apartment Development In Minneapolis
A new Cub store is being planned to anchor a new apartment development in the Longfellow neighborhood in Minneapolis. The new 46,000-s.f. Cub store is being built at 46th and Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis. Scheduled to open this spring, the new urban grocery store will anchor a five-story, 148-unit apartment development by Excelsior-based Oppidan Investment […]
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130-Plus Stores In Appalachia Add Custard Stand Hot Dog Chili
Shoppers now can purchase Custard Stand Hot Dog Chili in 125 Food City stores and six Super Dollar Food Center stores in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, northern Georgia and southwest Virginia. The rollout began Sunday, April 28, and should be in all stores soon. Food City and Super Dollar shoppers should look for the 100 percent beef chili near the wieners […]
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Coastline Family Farms, Madison Ranches Form Madison-Cox Onions
Coastline Family Farms has formed a new dry onion growing and packing joint venture with Madison Ranches of Echo, Oregon. The new venture will be named Madison-Cox Onions LLC. “My family has been growing red, yellow and white dry onions in the Imperial Valley of California for over 35 years,” said Larry Cox, CEO and […]