[gn_note color=”#b1cbde”]The 2012 Rhode Island Profile originally ran in the August 2012 edition of The Shelby Report of the Northeast. The profile will be published on theshelbyreport.com one month after it has run in print.[/gn_note] by Kristen Cloud/staff writer The Rhode Island economy continues to suffer. With unemployment still hovering around 11 percent, the Ocean State’s […]
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Radian Develops Plan To Assist A&P In Turnaround Efforts
Radian, a leading U.S. provider of merchandising consulting services to the retail industry, has announced the “success of its strategic merchandising plan” for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (A&P). As part of its partnership with A&P over the last 18 months, Radian says it has helped establish and ingrain a myriad of core […]
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Scott Brand Launches Scott Shared Values
The Scott Brand has created Scott Shared Values, a program that provides savvy consumers with exclusive access to exciting deals and rewards. Becoming a member of Scott Shared Values is easy; sign up at ScottBrand.com. Through the Scott Shared Values program, consumers will gain access to special savings toward Scott bath tissue and paper towels, […]
Posted in, Beverage News, National, Northeast
New Yorkers for Beverage Choices Surpasses 100K Supporters
New Yorkers for Beverage Choices has announced that more than 100,000 New Yorkers have joined the coalition in opposition to the Bloomberg Administration’s proposed size restrictions on sugar-sweetened beverages, such as soda, juice drinks, teas, sports drinks and flavored waters. The coalition also named Liz Berman, president of Continental Food and Beverage Inc., chairwoman of […]
Posted in, Corporate Store News, Northeast
Whole Foods To Open New Store In Wynnewood, Pa.; Closing Old One
Whole Foods Market has said it plans to open a new store in Wynnewood, Pa., around the corner from the existing store. The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that the new location will be 45,000 s.f. and will open in late summer or early fall of 2015. The existing store will remain open in the interim. […]
Posted in, Northeast, Southeast
PNC Bank Expands ATM Access To 191 Harris Teeter Stores
PNC Bank has announced the addition of 191 PNC-branded ATMs in Harris Teeter stores throughout the Carolinas and other states. The ATMs will be accessible in 138 Harris Teeter grocery stores across North and South Carolina, as well as in 53 stores in Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, between mid-July and Labor Day. Cardtronics, […]
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AG New England Breaks Sales Record
Associated Grocers of New England held its 66th annual meeting last month and hallmarked a number of firsts for the company. Mike Bourgoine, AG New England President and CEO, reported to those in attendance that the company ended its fiscal year with record-breaking sales of $458 million, representing a $76 million increase over the prior […]
Posted in, New Products, Northeast
Select Jersey Shop-Rites To Carry Skeeter’s Lunchbox-Ready Cookies
Skeeter Snacks has announced that Shop-Rite stores in New Jersey, owned and operated by the Ravitz family, will now distribute the company’s new, lunchbox-ready cookies in Chocolate Chunk, Golden Oatmeal and Skeeter Doodle varieties. Skeeter Snacks says it is proud to partner with these select Shop-Rite stores to offer its 100 percent nut-safe snacking solutions […]
Posted in, Northeast, Perishables
Cargill Initiates Voluntary Ground Beef Recall in Northeast
Cargill Beef, a business unit of Wichita-based Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., announces an immediate Class I voluntary recall of approximately 29,339 lbs. of 85-percent-lean, fresh, ground beef produced at the company’s Wyalusing, Penn., facility on May 25, 2012, due to possible contamination from Salmonella Enteritidis. The ground beef involved was repackaged for sale to consumers […]
Posted in, Northeast, Perishables, Southwest
Flowers Foods Acquires Lepage Bakeries
Thomasville, Ga.-based Flowers Foods announced July 23 that it has acquired Lepage Bakeries of Auburn, Maine. For fiscal 2011, Lepage had sales of $166 million from its three bakeries in New England. The acquisition adds Lepage’s efficient operations and 100 years of baking tradition to the second largest producer of packaged bakery foods for retail […]
Posted in, Corporate Store News, Northeast
Tops To Acquire 21 Supermarkets From GU Markets
Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in western New York, central New York and northwestern Pennsylvania, has announced that the company has entered into an agreement with GU Markets LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc., to acquire 21 supermarkets located in upstate New York and Vermont. This acquisition will bring the […]
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Shaw’s Celebrates Grand Re-Opening of Maine Stores with Trailer Donation
Shaw’s Supermarkets recently celebrated the grand re-opening of its stores in Auburn and Lewiston, Maine. The company commemorated the occasion by donating a trailer to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank as part of its commitment to supporting the organization’s critical mission to provide food to those in need. The newly revamped stores were designed to offer […]
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Shoppers Workers Ratify New Contract
Members of United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 working at Shoppers Food & Pharmacy have ratified a new, two-year collective bargaining agreement that raises their living standards, protects their health and retirement security, and is comparable to the contract recently ratified by Giant and Safeway workers. UFCW reports that the negotiations were lengthy, […]
Posted in, Northeast, Southeast
Dole Fresh Vegetables Recalls Some Bagged Salads
Dole Fresh Vegetables is voluntarily recalling 2,598 cases of bagged salad. The product being recalled is Dole Hearts of Romaine coded 0540N165112A or B, with a use-by date of June 26 and UPC 7143000956 due to a possible health risk from Listeria monocytogenes. Dole Fresh Vegetables is coordinating closely with regulatory officials. No illnesses have […]
Posted in, Northeast
Farmers Market Program In Pa. Offering Vouchers To Older Adults, WIC Participants
Low-income older adults and Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program participants can now use vouchers to purchase fresh, local produce at farmers markets and farm stands across Pennsylvania. Agriculture Secretary George Greig, Aging Secretary Brian Duke and Health Secretary Dr. Eli Avila joined U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary of Food Nutrition and Consumer Services Dr. […]
Posted in, Marketing News, National, Northeast
Frito-Lay Sales Associates Honored As PepsiCo’s Top Sales Performers Worldwide
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division congratulates its 42 U.S.- and Canadian-based sales associates who were recently honored as PepsiCo’s top sales performer in a ceremony held earlier this month at PepsiCo global headquarters in Purchase, N.Y. The honorees are among 226 sales people in 2012 inducted into the company’s “President’s Ring of Honor,” which was […]
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Giant Food Hiring 900 Part-Timers With Acquisition of Genuardi’s Stores
Giant Food Stores said it will hire 900 part-time employees as part of its acquisition of 15 Genuardi’s stores. The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that Giant made the announcement Friday after receiving Federal Trade Commission approval to buy the Genuardi’s Family Markets from Safeway Inc. The stores are in the Philadelphia area. Giant, of Carlisle, […]
Posted in, Northeast, Perishables
‘Old Croc’ Australian Aged Cheddar Adds Bold Flavor to Cheese Case
A new line of vintage Australian cheddar cheeses has been launched in the U.S. under the Old Croc brand name. The cheeses, featuring the playful warning, “Careful. It Bites!”, are being introduced by Millburn, N.J.-based Trugman-Nash, an affiliate of MCT Dairies, a supplier of cheese and dairy ingredients that also is based in Millburn. The […]
Posted in, Beverage News, C-Store News, Northeast
Big Apple Forms Grocers Association
Attorneys Brad Gerstman and David Schwartz have announced the formation of NYAGS, the New York Association of Grocery Stores. “We have formed NYAGS, New York Association of Grocery Stores, in order to stop the assault against grocery stores as well as the foodservice industry all over New York by the mayor and other government officials,” […]
Posted in, Northeast, Southwest
The Fresh Market Entering Three New States This Month
The Fresh Market is making an entry into three new states later this month: New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Kansas. The New Hampshire and Oklahoma stores will open June 27, while the Kansas store will open June 20. The Bedford, N.H., store at 79 South River Rd. will be 21,300 s.f. It will bring 90 new […]