Mineral Wells, Texas-based Crazy Water was honored with a 2017 Clear Choice Award from the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) at this year’s Packaging That Sells Conference, held in Chicago. The award recognizes the country’s top brands and manufacturers for “first-rate designs that shape powerful brand experiences.” Crazy Water was selected for its new Crazy Fizz and Crazy Water […]
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Price Chopper Extends Instacart Partnership To More New England Stores
Price Chopper Supermarkets and Market 32 continue to grow their partnership with Instacart, a nationwide on-demand grocery delivery service. Same-day home delivery of groceries started Dec. 13 in Price Chopper/Market 32 customers in Torrington, Connecticut, and Pittsfield, Sutton, Lenox, Great Barrington and Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Instacart delivery fees vary based on the order size and desired […]
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Recommended: Lowes Foods Opens First Charleston-Area Supermarket In Summerville
Holly Famulari can’t wait to come to work every day. The cake “wizard” (decorator) at the new Lowes Foods supermarket dances and waves a wand in front of the store’s cake-making corner when the music begins to play for a game of cake walk. “You work, but you have so much fun doing it,” said […]
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Recommended: Kroger Is Challenging Amazon And Walmart In Advertising
When Amazon entered the grocery business with the acquisition of Whole Foods this year, it was thought to be a supermarket killer. The grocery business was already facing competition from general retailers like Walmart that operate on larger scales and offer lower prices, and invading European grocers like Aldi and Lidl, before the mammoth conglomerate […]
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Kroger To Begin Offering Mobile Payment Through Chase Pay
The Kroger Co. is teaming up with Chase Pay—the digital engagement wallet from JPMorgan Chase & Co.—to offer mobile payments starting with select retail markets and e-commerce programs in 2018. Kroger says its payment solutions are a part of the Restock Kroger Plan, its strategy to create shareholder value by “redefining how America eats.” One of the key strategic […]
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Southern Glazer’s, Jarboe Sales To Form Joint Venture In Oklahoma
Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, a North American wine and spirits distribution company, has signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture distributorship with Jarboe Sales Co. that will create an integrated wine, spirits and beer wholesaling operation serving the state of Oklahoma. The joint venture, which will operate under the name Southern […]
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Supervalu, Instacart Expand Partnership, Launch New E-Commerce Sites
Grocery wholesaler and retailer Supervalu Inc. has entered into an exclusive multiyear contract with on-demand delivery service Instacart. Under the agreement, Supervalu recently launched refreshed e-commerce sites “Powered by Instacart” for four of its retail banners across the nation: Cub, Farm Fresh Food and Pharmacy, Shop ‘n Save, and Shoppers Food and Pharmacy. Supervalu and […]
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Recommended: Lidl Hits The Brakes On N.J. Grocery Store As Other Store Plans Scrapped
Plans by German discount grocer Lidl to begin construction on its second New Jersey store have stalled as the company hits the brakes on several proposed locations in other states. Lidl, which operates about 10,000 stores globally, entered the U.S. market in June with several store openings in the southeast as part of a plan […]