Just Add Cooking, a Boston meal kit company, and Roche Bros. Supermarkets are partnering to launching grab-and-go meal kits in select Roche Bros. stores. The kits—Brothers Marketplace meal kits by Just Add Cooking—will be sold in the stores, featuring locally sourced ingredients from Just Add Cooking. Just Add Cooking has been delivering locally sourced meal […]
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Cumberland Farms Honors Fallen Corporal With One-Day Fundraiser
Cumberland Farms will host a fundraiser for the Corporal Eugene Cole Memorial Fund on Friday, May 18, at all of its 43 retail locations across Maine. On that day, the company will donate 10 cents for every hot and iced coffee and Chill Zone beverage purchased to the Corporal Eugene Cole Memorial Fund. Corporate Cole, 61, a Somerset County Sheriff’s officer, was killed while […]
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Green Giant Launching Limited Edition Cans To Support Children’s Hospital
Green Giant has partnered with Smith Design to launch three limited edition cans that feature the artwork of patients of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Smith Design donated design, production and project management services to create these special cans of sweet peas, whole kernel sweet corn and cut green beans with colorful labels that integrate […]
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Stop & Shop Green Energy Facility In Mass. Gets Design-Build Award
Stop & Shop’s new green energy facility in Freetown, Massachusetts, which converts food waste into clean energy, received an honorable mention at the 2018 New England Design-Build Awards. Each year, the Design-Build Institute of America’s New England chapter recognizes regional projects that demonstrate excellence in effectively integrating design and construction services to produce “high-value outcomes […]
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Spencer, Massachusetts, Big Y Store Receives Major Upgrades
Big Y Foods has completed renovations to its Spencer, Massachusetts, World Class Market. The project brought about major upgrades in many areas of the 50,753-s.f. store as well as several new additions in response to changing customer needs. Big Y Spencer originally opened in November 1995; the store’s most recent previous remodel took place in April […]
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Global Partners Of Massachusetts To Sell 32 Retail Locations
Global Partners LP in Waltham, Massachusetts, is selling 32 “non-strategic” retail locations with gasoline in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic areas. Fourteen of the sites are in Massachusetts, nine are in Connecticut, three are in New York and six are in Maryland. The sites come with Global Partners’ fuel agreements. Lot sizes range from 7,000 s.f. to […]
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BJ’s Wholesale Club Adds Same-Day Online Ordering And Pickup
BJ’s Wholesale Club has updated its website with new features like Shop BJs.com–Pick Up in Club. The new online ordering service allows shoppers to place their order and then pick it up in the club on the same day. The updated site also allows shoppers to add digital coupons to select online orders. BJ’s members […]
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NACS Joins With Health Groups To Curb Sugary Drink Consumption
The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), the American Beverage Association (ABA) and two of the nation’s major health organizations have joined forces to help people reduce the amount of sugar and calories they consumer through beverages. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) are facilitating the collaboration […]