Jacksonville, Florida-based Southeastern Grocers Inc. has released its 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility Progress Report defining advancements the grocer has accomplished over the last year to create stronger communities, better products and a more sustainable future for all. “At Southeastern Grocers, we continue to put people first and position belonging, inclusion and diversity at the heart of […]
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H-E-B To Hand Out 250K Reusable Bags On Earth Day April 22
H-E-B will celebrate Earth Day with its annual reusable bag give away, which provides 250,000 custom-designed reusable bags to customers across Texas. Beginning April 22, customers who visit any H-E-B, Central Market, Joe V’s Smart Shop or Mi Tienda store in Texas are eligible to receive a complimentary Earth Day bag, while supplies last. The bags feature art designed […]
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Invafresh Helps Grocery Retailers Improve Gross Margin In Operations
Invafresh is helping grocery retail customers optimize operations to meet changing consumer behavior and combat rising food costs by balancing demand with supply and availability, to provide the freshest products. The Invafresh Fresh Food Retail Platform enables grocery stores to process and manage demand forecasting for all processes across fresh food retail merchandising, replenishment and compliancy and […]
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Ahold Delhaize, SEE, ExxonMobil Collaborate On Circularity Initiative
Ahold Delhaize USA, SEE and ExxonMobil have announced their collaboration on an advanced recycling initiative. The project recycles flexible plastics from the food supply chain and remakes them into new, certified circular food-grade packaging. The initiative is expected to begin this summer and scale over time. “We’re proud to work with SEE and ExxonMobil on […]
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Retail Business Services Launches Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Council
Quincy, Massachusetts-based Retail Business Services, the services company of Ahold Delhaize USA, has launched a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council, which is charged with driving awareness, adoption and acceleration of the company’s DEI strategy and supports the company’s commitment to creating a workplace where every employee feels they belong. The council includes a wide variety of […]
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Swisslog, Berkshire Grey Partner On AI-Enabled Robotic Solutions
Bedford, Massachusetts-based Berkshire Grey Inc. and Newport News, Virginia-based Swisslog has announced a partnership to provide robotic solutions to help grocery, e-grocery, e-commerce and retail customers meet the demands of connected consumers while managing widespread labor shortages. The partnership will initially focus on the American market. Swisslog and Berkshire Grey are providing, innovative, AI-enabled robotics solutions to global enterprises. […]
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IRI Report Shows Frozen Food Prices Rose Due To Other Price Inflations
To document the changing nature of the marketplace, IRI, Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics and Marriner Marketing have teamed up to continue to bring the latest trends and analysis relative to frozen food department sales. This is the third in a series of reports presented by IRI, discussing inflation trends. The price per unit across all foods […]
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IRI, Profitero Launch Granular Solution For Omnichannel Insights
IRI and Profitero will partner to enable clients to measure and optimize CPG digital shelf presence based on actual item-level sales. This solution will integrate IRI’s e-commerce point-of-sale data combined with Profitero’s digital shelf metrics on the IRI Liquid Data platform. “Profitero was the first to integrate digital shelf and sales metrics for e-commerce, and now we […]