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Bashas’ Offers Special Discounts On Fresh Crusty Bread

Bashas’ supermarkets are offering customers special discounts on its fresh-baked bread. It’s one of several promotions currently occurring at Bashas’. Through March 26, customers can purchase Crusty Bread varieties such as Multi-grain, Poppy Seed, Sesame and Original, for a special discounted price of $1.50 each. To celebrate National French Bread Day on March 21, Bashas’ […]

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Festival Foods To Open New Store In Hales Corners, Wisconsin

Festival Foods plans to expand its business to Hales Corners, Wisconsin, with the construction of a 67,000-s.f. store set to open this fall. Festival Foods has purchased a vacant building located at 5600 S. 108th Street. The building previously was home to a Kmart that has since shut its doors. Festival Foods will demolish that […]

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Leverage AI to Enhance Shoppers’ Beef Knowledge & Increase Loyalty, Spending, Trips

Sponsored content by Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. It’s hard to go more than a day in the retail industry without hearing about another artificial intelligence (AI) advancement or partnership. AI is being embraced by retailers, and businesses at large, for a range of business enhancing tactics: everything from optimizing inventory and pricing strategies to […]

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Chase Freedom Will Offer Grocery Store Cash Back Category In Spring

Chase Freedom will offer grocery stores and home improvement stores as new quarterly categories in the spring. The Wilmington, Delaware, company’s quarterly categories allow cardmembers to earn 5 percent cash back on up to $1,500 in combined purchases from April 1 through June 30. “We know our cardmembers are eager to kick off spring with […]

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A Red-Letter Day For H-E-B In Houston’s The Heights

H-E-B President Scott McClelland said there was a lot of pressure on him to get the new 92,000-s.f. store at 2300 Shepherd Drive in Houston’s The Heights just right. “My daughter lives in The Heights,” McClelland told The Shelby Report’s Jan Meade on opening day. “She told me, ‘Dad, if you really love me, you’ll […]

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Patrick G. Hagan Will Retire From Fareway In May

Longtime employee and board member Patrick G. Hagan, SVP and treasurer, will retire from Boone, Iowa-based Fareway Stores Inc. on May 3 after 23 years of service. Hagan has served on the Fareway board of directors since 2010 and currently chairs the Fareway real estate and 401k/profit sharing committees. He also served as a trustee […]

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Consider ‘Sustainability’ In Construction And Equipment

by Steve Mehmert/managing partner, T4 Solutions Sustainable: “of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged.”—Merriam-Webster online dictionary Every day we read more and more about supermarkets that are embracing sustainability in their daily operations. We hear the terms reduce, reuse […]