Select New Hampshire grocery stores are launching the healthy food incentive program, “Double Up Food Bucks,” in August. Double Up matches the value of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps) spent on locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables, helping low income families bring home more nutritious, fresh fruits and vegetables. Participating […]
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Sovos Brands Completes Purchase Of Rao’s Specialty Foods
Sovos Brands, a food and beverage company formed by Advent International, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Rao’s Specialty Foods, a New York producer of Rao’s Homemade, a brand of pasta sauce. Rao’s Specialty Foods is the second acquisition in less than six months for Sovos Brands. Rao’s Specialty Foods joins Sovos’ portfolio of […]
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Safeway Eastern Division Marking 87th Anniversary With Gas Promotion
Safeway Eastern Division stores in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Delaware and Florida will celebrate the company’s 87th anniversary throughout the month of August with a special anniversary sale featuring 4x Gas Rewards on top-selling items. When shoppers purchase Safeway Anniversary Sale items, every $1 spent on these items will earn four times the usual Gas […]
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ShopRite Opens Newest Store In Plainview, New York
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 […]