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Stop & Shop Adds Same-Day Pickup Of Online Orders At 20 Stores

Stop & Shop now offers same-day, online pickup for Peapod orders at select stores in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. The new offering provides Stop & Shop customers with a faster and more convenient way to shop with pickup available in as little as four hours. Customers can simply place an order on […]

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Giant/Martin’s Breaks Own Record For Troops Fundraiser

Customers and associates generously donated $860,820 through Giant Food Stores and Martin’s Food Markets’ annual Support Our Troops in-store fundraising campaign to benefit local United Service Organizations (USO) and the American Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces program. This amount exceeds the previous record high of $778,989 raised in 2018. “Our team of associates […]

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Arctic Buzz Alcohol-Infused Ice Cream Debuts At NRA Show

Arctic Buzz combines ice cream and alcohol to create a frozen treat. “I haven’t seen anything like it,” said Sam Marriott, sales executive of national food broker network Lakeland Marketing, one of the first independent sales agencies to represent the company. “The way this product is so rapidly generating interest and even translating into sales […]

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Scott & Jon’s Rebrands Its Widely Available Frozen Seafood Line

Auburn, Maine-based Scott & Jon’s, which has undergone a rebranding of its frozen seafood products, now is sold in more than 7,000 stores nationwide.  Company co-founders and brothers, Scott and Jon Demers, use the latest flash-freeze technology to craft meals that lock in the best of land and sea. The result is a line of […]

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His Mom’s Recipe Inspired Creation Of Art Cream Organic Ice Cream

Each flavor of Art Cream Organic Ice Cream is wrapped in a painting that embodies that flavor profile created by one of the team members. Owner Luciano Vitali Alves was inspired by the flavors of his mother’s homemade ice cream. As a child, he worked in her ice cream shop, helping to scoop the ice […]

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Affinity Group Expands With Matrix And Jon Morris Acquisitions

Affinity Group has acquired Matrix Sales & Marketing and Jon Morris & Co., two retail sales and marketing agencies. Enzo Dentico, CEO of Affinity Group Retail, said, “Both Jon Morris & Co. and Matrix Sales & Marketing have a tremendous history of success in our industry and are excellent solutions-oriented sales agencies that primarily focus […]