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Redner’s Markets Launches New Mobile App, Kicks Off ‘Appiness Tour’

Redner’s Markets launched a new mobile app on March 5, and the employee-owned regional chain is celebrating with a five-store tour across Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware beginning March 10. The app gives customers access to exclusive deals, gas and grocery rewards points, grocery delivery and pickup, and catering orders – consolidating Redner’s loyalty and shopping […]

Posted inIndependent Store News, International Foods, News, Northeast, Wakefern

Fairway Market Celebrates Lunar New Year With Dumpling-Making Class

Fairway Market celebrated Lunar New Year with a culinary collaboration alongside Nom Wah, New York City’s oldest continuously operating dim sum restaurant, bringing an interactive dumpling-making class to its 74th Street Café on the Upper West Side. The two-hour class Feb. 26 was led by Wilson Tang, owner of Nom Wah, who guided guests through […]

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Shift In Spending Patterns Detected As DE Shoppers Navigate Economic Minefields

Julie Miro Wenger, executive director of the Delaware Food Industry Council, spoke with The Griffin Report about the busy year she and her members have had. Many challenges have arisen over the past 12-plus months, as a new administration has made some sweeping changes that affect the industry. But the state’s grocers, as is their […]

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NRS, Krasdale Foods Form Partnership To Support Independent Bodegas

National Retail Solutions and Krasdale Foods have announced a strategic partnership, combining NRS’s point-of-sale technology with the grocer’s distribution network to serve independently owned bodegas and small-format stores across the Northeast. Developed over several years, the collaboration integrates NRS’s store-management platform with Krasdale’s supply-chain capabilities to deliver operational efficiency, data insights and profitability tools for […]

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Tops Markets Completes $2.3M Store Remodel In Tonawanda, NY

Tops Friendly Markets completed a $2.3 million remodel of its store at 890 Young Street in Tonawanda, New York, marking the company’s 50th major site renovation in six years. The project is part of Tops’ capital improvement project, which has included more than $100 million invested across its three-state footprint of New York, Pennsylvania and […]

Posted inIndependent Store News, Featured News, Health & Wellness, News, Nonfood Items, Northeast, Wakefern

ShopRite Launches Free GLP-1 Wellness Starter Kits For Pharmacy Customers

Keasbey, New Jersey-based ShopRite has introduced Wellness Your Way Starter Kits, a free and limited-time offering designed to support customers beginning GLP-1 medications for weight management. While supplies last, customers filling their first GLP-1 prescription at a ShopRite pharmacy will receive a kit, which includes product samples and nutrition tips to help them build healthy […]

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Price Rite Marketplace Celebrates Associates On Supermarket Employee Day

Keasbey, New Jersey-based Price Rite Marketplace celebrated Supermarket Employee Day on Feb. 22, an occasion proclaimed by FMI – The Food Industry Association to recognize grocery workers for their commitment to feeding families. Employees from nearly 50 Price Rite Marketplace stores were acknowledged for the role they play in serving their communities. They received complimentary […]