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Food Lion Opening Two South Carolina Stores June 13

Food Lion will celebrate the grand opening of two of its newest South Carolina stores on Wednesday, June 13. The stores are located at 1241 38th Avenue North in Myrtle Beach and 1610 Highway 17 South in Surfside Beach. Each store will open to the public at 8:00 a.m. on June 13 following a 7:45 […]

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Trig’s To Open Its Eighth Wisconsin Grocery Store In Tomahawk

T.A. Solberg Co. Inc. has purchased Nelson’s County Market on North 4th Street in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. The store will transition to the Trig’s banner, owned by T.A. Solberg, on June 24.   “We are looking forward to serving the Tomahawk area. This is a particularly good fit for us because our two locally owned companies […]

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Weigel’s Latest Location Focuses On Made-To-Order Foodservice

C-store chain Weigel’s has opened its 66th store near its corporate headquarters in Powell, Tennessee, at 7505 Clinton Highway. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new store was held June 6. A special grand opening celebration starts June 11 and will run through June 17. “We’ve had many requests to expand and update our presence here […]

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Wegmans’ Burger Bar To Make Virginia Debut On June 3

The doors to Wegmans Food Markets’ Chantilly, Virginia, store are set to open at 7 a.m. on Sunday, June 3. The 120,000-s.f. supermarket is located at The Field at Commonwealth near the intersection of Route 28 and Westfields Boulevard. Open 6 a.m.-midnight daily, Chantilly is Wegmans’ 97th store. Among the 60,000-plus products offered there, more than […]

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Ralphs To Reopen Sawtelle Supermarket In West Los Angeles On June 1

Ralphs Grocery Co. this week will celebrate the grand reopening of its remodeled supermarket at 11361 National Boulevard in West Los Angeles’ Sawtelle neighborhood. Following more than three months of ceiling-to-floor renovations, the supermarket is set to reopen on Friday, June 1. As part of the celebration, the first 300 customers will receive coupons for free breakfast items, […]

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Mars Wrigley’s Front-End Plan Can Bring ‘Instant’ Double‑Digit Growth

by Terrie Ellerbee/editor-Midwest & Southwest As food retailers know very well, the majority of consumers no longer eat three sit-down meals every day. They are snacking instead. It is no surprise, then, that the fastest-growing category in the check lane is snacks. Yet snacks only get about 8 percent of the space there, Rimsha Baig, […]

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Spencer, Massachusetts, Big Y Store Receives Major Upgrades

Big Y Foods has completed renovations to its Spencer, Massachusetts, World Class Market. The project brought about major upgrades in many areas of the 50,753-s.f. store as well as several new additions in response to changing customer needs. Big Y Spencer originally opened in November 1995; the store’s most recent previous remodel took place in April […]

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Food Lion Celebrates Former Farm Fresh Store Reopenings

It wasn’t quite six weeks ago that Food Lion announced it would purchase three Farm Fresh stores that would otherwise close for business in the greater Norfolk, Virginia, market. On Wednesday, May 9, these three stores, located at 1615 General Booth Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia; 608 Mercury Boulevard in Hampton, Virginia; and 683 South […]