Multi-format food and fuel retailer, Giant Eagle and the international nonprofit organization, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP), have partnered to develop a comprehensive sustainable seafood procurement strategy. SFP will work with Giant Eagle to develop a seafood procurement strategy geared toward offering the most sustainable sources of wild-caught and farmed seafood to consumers. SFP will evaluate […]
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Harris Teeter Launches Exclusive Craft Beer
Harris Teeter revealed its exclusive craft beer Barrel Trolley to shoppers in July, discovered and delivered to you by the company’s wine and beer team. The craft beer will be available in all Harris Teeter locations in which wine and beer is sold the company said in a press release. Harris Teeter’s beer and wine […]
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Weis Markets Announces 7th Round of Prize Freeze Program
Weis Markets unveiled that it had lowered the prices on 1,600 staple items and that it will freeze these new lower prices for ninety days through Oct. 8.
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Stop & Shop Begins Campaign to Help Tornado Victims
The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC announced on June 15 that it will begin a solicitation campaign to raise money to help those affected by the recent tornadoes in Massachusetts. One hundred percent of the donations will go directly to the American Red Cross of Central and Western Massachusetts. The fundraising campaign will begin […]
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A&P Forges New Agreement with C&S Wholesale Grocers
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Inc. (A&P) announced June 7 that it will enter into a new supply and logistics agreement with its principal wholesale supplier, C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc., pending approval of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Big Y Foods Pilots First-Ever Grocery Chain Groupon Offers
Big Y Foods Inc., Incentive Targeting and HaloEffect have teamed with Groupon to bring social buying to the grocery retail and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. The partnership combines Groupon’s powerful social buying platform with Incentive Targeting’s retail shopper marketing technology, Big Y’s groundbreaking grocery retail loyalty program, and HaloEffect’s agency creative and grocery marketing […]
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A&P Completes Auction of 25 Superfresh Stores
Montvale, N.J.-based Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Inc. (A&P) recently completed the auction of 25 southern Superfresh locations, as it continues to fully implement its comprehensive financial and operational restructuring. The winning bids, which are subject to approval from the bankruptcy court before the sales would be completed, will be listed in motions of […]
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Safeway’s Lewis Honored by Magazine
Safeway Inc.’s Assistant Vice President of Legal, Valerie D. Lewis, was named to the prestigious Top Women in Retail and Finance list by Women of Color magazine. Lewis is one of a handful of women professionals chosen by the magazine, a business and technology publication geared for women of diverse ethnic backgrounds, to honor and […]