For the second year in a row, the first- and second-place teams in the American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Competition rib category cooked with Prairie Fresh ribs to secure their top spots. First place winner Smokin’ Hooks of Portland, Texas, and second-place finisher Smoke N Babes BBQ, of Olathe, Kansas, were among the […]
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Posted inHealth & Wellness, Home Page Slider, Marketing News, Online Grocery Technology, West
Fit For Bucks App Rewards Shoppers For Physical Activity
Fit For Bucks, a new health and fitness app that rewards customers for their physical activity, offers a new marketing tool for retailers like grocers. The tool not only helps users improve their health, it also provides an opportunity for merchants to get new customers in the door. The Fit For Bucks platform incentivizes users […]
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Giant Food Stores Expanding Giant Choice Rewards Program
Carlisle, Pennsylvania-based Giant Food Stores is expanding its Giant Choice Rewards program across the chain. An enhancement to Giant’s previous Gas Extra Rewards program, Choice Rewards brings customized savings and rewards right to customers’ with the Giant or Martin’s app. “When we designed Giant Choice Rewards, we did so with today’s families in mind,” said Matt […]
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Peet’s Coffee Expands Ready-To-Drink Portfolio With Blended Coffees
Emeryville, California-based Peet’s Coffee previewed Peet’s Blended Coffee, a new line of four ready-to-drink beverages, at this year’s National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) trade show in Atlanta, Georgia. Available in four flavors, they are made with real cream, real sugar and 100 percent single-origin Colombian coffee. Peet’s Blended Coffee, slated to launch across convenience, […]
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Inserra Supermarkets Donates To Diabetes Institute Foundation
Inserra Supermarkets presented the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRIF) with a donation of $180,454.24 generated from the company’s annual summer Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) fundraiser. The event takes place at all the company’s stores including its 23 ShopRite stores in Bergen, Hudson and Passaic counties in New Jersey and Rockland County, New York, and Price […]
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Resnick Supermarket Equipment Plans Refrigerated Shelving Business
Resnick Supermarket Equipment Inc., a family-owned remanufacturing company and parent company to Supermarket Parts Warehouse based in Woodridge, New York, plans to manufacture refrigerated case shelving through a new business, Real Steel. “Real Steel shelves are built like shelves were built 20 years ago,” said Mark Resnick, COO of Supermarket Parts Warehouse. “Rather than use […]
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Iowa-Based Yesway To Acquire 300-Store Allsup’s Chain
Yesway is acquiring Clovis, New Mexico-based Allsup’s Convenience Stores, which has a portfolio of 304 stores in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Some Allsup’s have served local communities for more than 60 years. “Allsup’s founders, Lonnie and Barbara Allsup, were true pioneers, innovators and visionaries of convenience store retailing,” said Yesway Chairman and CEO Thomas Nicholas […]
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Fast Phil’s Convenience Stores Introduce NCR Self-Checkout
As a first step in its partnership with NCR Corp., Raymer Oil will introduce NCR self-checkout technology powered by NCR FastLane software in all 46 Fast Phil’s stores across the U.S. “We were looking for a strategic partner that could help to modernize and automate our stores in the highly competitive fuel and convenience market,” says […]