Frieda Rapoport Caplan, founder of Frieda’s Specialty Produce, is one of two women who will be honored for their contribution to the produce industry at the Eastern Produce Council (EPC) John J. McAleavey 52nd Annual Dinner Dance in Woodland Park, New Jersey, on April 7. Annabel Donio Arena, second-generation leader of Frank Donio Inc., based in […]
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Bridgewater, New Jersey, Whole Foods Features In-Store Mushroom Farm
Whole Foods Market Bridgewater, the first Somerset County, New Jersey, location for the natural and organic food retailer, opened late last week at 319 Chimney Rock Road at Route 22. The 49,000-s.f. store offers the grocer’s first indoor mushroom farm, developed in partnership with Smallhold, a New York City-based company that works with restaurants, grocery stores and […]
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ShopRite Offers Gourmet-Style, Better-For-You Meal Kits
ShopRite has launched a line of gourmet-style meal kits for customers seeking convenient, creative dinners with better-for-you ingredients. The packaged kits, available at select ShopRite stores in the supermarket’s six-state trading area, include a variety of entrees such as Thai Coconut Chicken, Chicken Marsala, Korean Beef Stir Fry, Moroccan Chicken and Pork Scaloppini. Each recipe […]
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New Three-Year Contract Sealed At Hannaford D.C. In Maine
Delhaize America and the union representing employees at a key Hannaford distribution center in South Portland, Maine, have agreed on a three-year contract. The agreement ends an impasse that resulted in workers going out on a 24-hour strike. Ahold Delhaize is the parent corporation of Hannaford Supermarkets, which is based in Scarborough, Maine. Delhaize America […]
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RifRaf Ricotta Snack Cups Launching In Select Whole Foods Stores
RifRaf Ricotta Cups—a first-of-its-kind ricotta cheese snack, according to startup company RifRaf—are coming to the dairy aisle at select Whole Foods Market stores. Combining spoonable, lightly cultured whole milk ricotta and a sidecar of flavored jams and honeys, RifRaf hopes to “upset an otherwise uniform yogurt category.” The Ricotta Cups will launch in five inaugural flavors: […]
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Wegmans Sets Leadership Team For April 29 Natick Opening
Wegmans Food Markets announced the leadership team managing its new store at Natick Mall in Natick, Massachusetts, which opens at 7 a.m. on Sunday, April 29. The Natick store is a 146,500-s.f. supermarket spanning two floors, including in-store café seating and featuring two restaurant concepts: The Burger Bar and Blue Dalia Mexican Restaurant & Tequila […]
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Big Y Reaches New Milestones In ‘Sack Hunger’ Campaign
Big Y Foods in Springfield, Massachusetts highlighted its recent “Sack Hunger” holiday program along with year-round efforts to donate food to all of the food banks it supports, reporting a total of more than 5 million meals donated in 2017. Big Y’s eighth annual Sack Hunger/Care to Share program brought nearly 22,000 bags of food to […]
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CVS Health Adds Two Programs To Fight Opioid Abuse In New Hampshire
CVS Health has announced two initiatives in New Hampshire designed to combat opioid abuse. The company has installed safe medication disposal units inside two CVS Pharmacy locations in the state to help facilitate proper and timely disposal of opioids and other medications that could be diverted or misused if left in people’s homes. In addition, the company […]