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 […]
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Gulf Rolls Out New Rewards Campaign With Discover
Gulf Oil and Discover Financial Service have launched a new savings campaign to reward consumers for downloading the new Gulf Pay app and linking their Discover card as the preferred payment method. By downloading the free Gulf Pay app and linking a Discover card within a wallet, users will automatically start saving 15 cents off on […]
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Campbell Soup Accelerating E-Commerce Plans
Campbell Soup Co. has appointed VP Shakeel Farooque to lead an accelerated plan for its Digital and E-Commerce Division. The company plans to accelerate its digital and e-commerce capabilities by forming an e-commerce unit, representing all three Campbell divisions in North America. Campbell has a goal of generating $300 million in e-commerce sales over the next five years. […]
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New Jersey Raises Smoking Age To 21
With Gov. Chris Christie signing the bill into law Friday, New Jersey joined the growing list of states and communities prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to anyone under age 21. Tobacco 21 laws also have been enacted by California, Hawaii and at least 255 cities and counties, including New York City, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, […]