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Online Grocery Shopping Now Available At Buehler’s Dover Parkside

Buehler’s Fresh Foods now offers online grocery shopping at its Dover Parkside location. Customers can order groceries online for curbside pickup the same day. Dover Parkside is the sixth Buehler’s store to offer this service, joining Wooster Milltown, Medina River Styx, Canton, Wadsworth and Ashland. The new service, powered by Buehler’s partner Freshop, allows customers […]

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Meijer Continues Investment In Pet Departments For Total Pet Care

Grand Rapids, Michigan-based retailer Meijer is working to expand its pet departments for an even larger assortment of everyday essentials like food and grooming supplies, as well as the increasingly popular Halloween costumes. According to the National Retail Federation, an estimated 29 million people plan to dress their pets up for Halloween, and Meijer has […]

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Kum & Go Commits To Healthier Convenience Retailing With PHA, NACS

Kum & Go has made a commitment with the nonprofit Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), and the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) to offer healthier foods throughout its 400 locations. PHA has helped to expand healthier options in more than 2,500 convenience store locations nationwide. A NACS member, Kum & Go is a […]

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Mighty Spark Launches All-Natural Poultry At Walmart And CVS

Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Mighty Spark, an independent company that donates a meal with each purchase consumers make of its all-natural poultry, is expanding its assortment and presence at retailers nationwide with the launch of patties and ground blends at select Walmart stores, and chicken snack sticks at 2,500 CVS locations. “In addition to launching at Walmart […]

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Michigan Lawmakers Fund Program Supporting State Farmers, Families

Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Fair Food Network recognized Michigan lawmakers for their bipartisan support for a homegrown program supporting farmers and families. The House and Senate approved $1 million for the healthy food incentive program Double Up Food Bucks in the state 2020 budget that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Oct. 1. This is in addition to […]

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Conagra Brands Set To Showcase New Snacks At NACS Show

Chicago-based Conagra Brands Inc. will be bringing a lineup of its snacks to the 2019 NACS Show, presented by the National Association of Convenience Stores, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta Oct. 2-4. According to IRI data, Conagra Brands’ $2 billion snacks business is one of the largest and fastest-growing in the food […]

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Michigan Grocers Division Honors Busch’s, H.T. Hackney

The Michigan Retailers Association (MRA) Grocers Division has named Busch’s Fresh Food Market and H.T. Hackney Co. as its 2019 Al Kessel Outstanding Achievement Award winners. Launched in 2013, the award memorializes former Michigan Grocers Association Director Albert “Al” Kessel, Jr., who founded the Flint-based Kessel Food Market chain. To reflect his generous spirit, one […]

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Kroger Opens Two-Level Store In Cincinnati With First-Ever Food Hall

On Sept. 25, The Kroger Co. opened a new, 52,000-s.f., two-level urban-format store in downtown Cincinnati, offering the grocer’s first-ever food hall, named On The Rhine Eatery. The experience features Cincinnati eateries Django Western Taco, Dope! Asian Street Fare, Eli’s BBQ and Queen City Whip, as well as Kitchen 1883 Café and Bar, Kroger’s American […]