Food Network joined Share Our Strength, Whole Foods Market and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s office to raise awareness of childhood hunger in Philadelphia. The holiday food collection drive helped deliver 45,000 meals in the Philadelphia area before Christmas. Previous drives in December in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., collected enough non-perishable food items to prepare […]
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Meijer Hosts Online Gingerbread Creation Contest
Michigan-based Meijer’s online program, called “Gingerbread Bites Back,” invites shoppers to submit their funniest or most off-the-wall submissions for a photo contest of the most original gingerbread creation (person or house); a video project capturing an interesting take on people baking or eating gingerbread; or a contest inviting people to place downloadable gingerbread imagery in […]
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Wegmans Plans to Build Store in Newton, Mass.
Wegmans Food Markets Inc. has announced that it will be part of the Chestnut Hill Square development on Route 9 (Boylston Street), directly across from The Mall at Chestnut Hill in Newton, Mass. Wegmans will be unveiling a new, smaller urban concept at this location, where it will build a 70,000 s.f. food store, according […]
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Shaw’s Supports Local Food Banks with Spirit of Giving 2011 Food Drive
Shaw’s Supermarkets®, part of the nationwide Supervalu® family of grocery stores, recently kicked off its Spirit of Giving Food Drive, encouraging customers to give back to those in need this holiday season. The program allows shoppers to purchase pre-assembled food bags at Shaw’s locations that will then be donated to local hunger relief partners and […]
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Fairway Market Opens First Store in Queens
Fairway Market, the specialty food market, opened Nov. 16 in Douglaston, Queens, offering area shoppers a combination of specialty, organic and traditional foodstuffs at everyday value prices. The store, which is the ninth for the company and the first in New York City’s largest borough, is located at 242-02 61st Ave. in the Douglaston Plaza […]
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Largest Wegmans Now Open in Massachusetts
Wegmans Food Markets’ newest store is its largest. And it’s also the New York-based chain’s first store that is classified as being in New England. The store that opened Oct. 16 in Northborough, Mass., is 138,000 s.f. A Wegmans press release says that shopping at the megastore will be “fun,” and that every customer will […]
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OSHA Proposes DeMoulas Supermarkets Pay Half a Million in Fines
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited DeMoulas Supermarkets Inc., doing business as Market Basket, for 30 alleged willful, repeat and serious violations of workplace safety standards at its stores in Rindge and Concord, N.H. The Tewksbury, Mass.-based grocery chain, which has stores in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, faces a […]
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Sheetz West Virginia Expansion Continues With Store in Beaver
Sheetz opened a new store in Beaver, W.Va., Sept. 22. This is the second Sheetz location in this area to open this year. The first in Beckley on Robert C. Byrd Drive opened in February. As part of the grand opening, the company made a donation to Special Olympics West Virginia. Sheetz has been a […]