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Pete’s Fresh Market To Open At Rice Lake Square In Wheaton, Illinois

Locally owned and operated Pete’s Fresh Market has leased two adjacent spaces vacated by Whole Foods Market and Sports Authority at Rice Lake Square in Wheaton, Illinois. According to property manager Annette Eastman of Mid-America Asset Management, Pete’s will open a 69,586-s.f. “enhanced concept grocery store” at this location in fall 2018. A multiple Talk […]

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Whole Foods To Open First 365 In State Of Ohio This September

Whole Foods Market 365 will open its first Ohio store in Akron on Sept. 14. The store will be the sixth 365 format store to open nationally for Whole Foods. Located at 1745 W. Market Street, the store will feature only products that meet Whole Foods Market’s rigorous quality standards and are free of artificial […]

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SpartanNash To Sponsor Commissioning Of Navy Aircraft Carrier, Will Host Viewing Party

As the U.S. Navy prepares to commission the USS Gerald R. Ford—the newest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the world—SpartanNash and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation invite the public to join in celebrating the occasion on Saturday, July 22. The commissioning begins at 10 a.m. in Norfolk, Virginia, with a viewing party taking […]

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BPI Settles Lean Finely Textured Beef Lawsuit Against ABC News

A lawsuit stemming from what Beef Products Inc. (BPI) described as a “month-long disinformation campaign” in March 2012 against its lean finely textured beef product was settled on June 28 for an undisclosed sum. Dakota Dunes, South Dakota-based BPI and the Roth family, who own the company, said in a statement that they are “extraordinarily […]

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More Details About Meijer’s New Urban Grocery Store Released

West Side and downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, residents recently marked the groundbreaking of Meijer’s Bridge Street Market, a grocery store coming to the city’s West Side on the corner of Bridge Street and Seward Avenue.The new 37,000-s.f. store will feature 22-foot ceilings, open-air elements and a pedestrian-friendly design. Bridge Street Market is a first-of-its-kind store […]

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Wind-Down Sale Under Way At Central Grocers

Inventory of Central Grocers, a retailer-owned cooperative that operated as a wholesaler for approximately 400 independent grocery stores before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May, is being liquidated “through an orderly wholesale wind-down sale” at the company’s headquarters and distribution center in Joliet, Illinois. More than $20 million of dry grocery products, frozen foods and […]

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Perch’s IGA Is Great North Foods’ Retailer Of The Year

Perch’s IGA in Alpena, Michigan, has been named Great North Foods Retailer of the Year. Great North Sales Manager Steffen Nizinsky made the presentation during the company’s annual food show recently. The Curtises won the national IGA Fall Into Savings Exclusive Brands sales contest and a trip to the Super Bowl, and also received IGA […]