With 92 stores across six states, each offering a minimum of 50,000 products, Wegmans Food Markets’ customers might not immediately equate the notion of “less is more” with the supermarket chain. But, when it comes to sustainability and the company’s commitment to reduce waste in landfills and reduce emissions, less truly is more, according to Wegmans. […]
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ShopRite Partners With Healthcare Provider On New Family Wellness Program
ShopRite and New Jersey healthcare provider RWJBarnabas Health have partnered to launch a free nutrition and wellness education program available to children and families at ShopRite stores in New Jersey and beyond. Called “KidsFit at ShopRite,” the program’s goal is to prevent childhood obesity. KidsFit at ShopRite is a free, six-session curriculum-based program taught by […]
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New Sheetz Loyalty Card Offers More Customized Rewards
Sheetz recently marked the start of its new loyalty card program, giving customers the opportunity to become official “Sheetz Freakz.” MySheetz card holders now receive points on nearly every in-store purchase and can choose customized rewards. Points cannot be earned on fuel, cigarettes, tobacco, lottery, half-gallon and gallon milk, financial cards and Sheetz Gift cards. […]
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Hain Celestial Forms Joint Venture With Rosetto Foods
The Hain Celestial Group, a leading organic and natural products company, has established a joint venture with Rosetto Foods, a newly formed entity managed by Steven Sands. Hain Celestial has a 49 percent minority interest in the joint venture. As part of the strategic partnership with Rosetto Foods, Hain Celestial licensed the intellectual property associated with its non-core […]
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New York C-Store Industry Helps Defeat Cigar Tax Shift Bill
New York convenience store retailers and suppliers teamed up to keep a shift in the cigar excise tax out of the new state budget that was approved this month by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislature. Jim Calvin, president of the New York Association of Convenience Stores (NYACS), commended his retail and distributor members as […]
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CEO Boer Addresses First Joint Ahold Delhaize Shareholders Meeting
Ahold Delhaize CEO Dick Boer pointed out some accomplishments from the company’s U.S. businesses—Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Peapod and Food Lion—as he addressed the company’s general meeting of shareholders on April 12 in the Netherlands. This was the first shareholders meeting since the merger of Ahold and Delhaize in July 2016, and Boer said the […]
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Three Grocers Change Oil Management Practices
Three grocers—Weis Markets, Fry’s Food Stores and Price Chopper-Market 32—have changed oil management practices in their hot prepared foods programs through service from Restaurant Technologies. Over the next few months, each retailer will begin using the “Total Oil Management” system that automates the entire life cycle of fryer oil. “Prepared foods have skyrocketed in the grocery space, […]
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AGNE Stores Enhance Efficiencies With New POS Systems
Harvest Market, Vista Foods and Sully’s Superette, three community retailers in New Hampshire and Vermont that are owned and operated by Associated Grocers of New England (AGNE), recently upgraded their point-of-sale software systems. Produced by Dumac, the new system has helped the three AGNE banners increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their business operations, particularly cash […]