ShopRite has opened its newest full-service supermarket in Plainview, New York. The 68,000-s.f. grocery store also serves as a retail anchor for Country Pointe at Plainview, a development that will include a mix of housing and retail shops when completed. The Greenfield family, third- and fourth-generation grocers who own four other ShopRites on Long Island, operate […]
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FDA To Pursue Lower Nicotine Levels In Tobacco Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced new tobacco and nicotine regulations with a goal of “better protecting children and significantly reducing tobacco-related disease and death.” The approach places levels of nicotine, and the issue of addiction, at the center of the agency’s tobacco regulation efforts. The goal is to ensure that the FDA has the […]
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Cumberland Farms Says It Saved Customers $75M Through SmartPay Program
Cumberland Farms says its customers have saved $75 million through use of the SmartPay program, which launched in January 2013. Available as both a free payment card and a mobile payment app, SmartPay Check-Link users automatically save 10 cents on every gallon of gas at any Cumberland Farms gas retail location throughout the Northeast and Florida. Cumberland Farms has made the […]
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Stew Leonard’s In Danbury, Connecticut, Rolls Out Meal Delivery In Under An Hour
Stew Leonard’s in Danbury, Connecticut, has partnered with Vroom Service Now for delivery of the grocer’s meals in under an hour. “While the Leonards first started as milk deliverymen 100 years ago, offering home meal delivery is an exciting new chapter in my family’s fresh food business,” said Jake Tavello, store director of Stew Leonard’s […]
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Snyder’s-Lance To Spend $20M On Hyannis, Mass., Plant Expansion
Snyder’s-Lance plans to expand its Hyannis, Massachusetts, Cape Cod Chips plant by nearly 40,000 s.f. The $20 million project will add to the plant’s manufacturing, warehouse and office and retail spaces. Cape Cod and Snyder’s-Lance recently filed project plans with the Cape Cod Commission. “Our company continually evaluates our operations to best use our investments and […]
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Group Encourages Stores To Drop Ben & Jerry’s Unless Organic Commitment Is Made
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) reports that 10 of 11 samples of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream tested positive for glyphosate, a key ingredient in Roundup herbicide. OCA is calling for Ben & Jerry’s, a Vermont-based subsidiary of Unilever, to begin an immediate transition to using only organic ingredients, including milk, in its products or face a […]
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Stop & Shop To Close Older Medford, Mass., Store; Adds New Unit In Conn.
Stop & Shop is closing a smaller, older store at 471 Salem Street in Medford, Massachusetts, in mid- to late August and expanding a larger store in that community. The grocery chain also recently opened a new store in Litchfield, Connecticut. The Stop & Shop store at 760 Fellsway in Medford remains open as it […]
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Wegmans, Instacart Expand Same-Day Delivery From Pa., N.J. Stores
Wegmans Food Markets has expanded its same-day grocery delivery service through Instacart to select stores in southeastern Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley and southern New Jersey. The service allows Wegmans customers to complete their grocery shopping online and have their orders delivered to their doors in as little as an hour. Wegmans customers can fill their virtual carts by […]