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Wegmans To Sell Smartbuns And Smartcakes At Select Stores

Smart Baking Co. products are now available at Wegmans. The Sanford, Florida-based bakery is supplying Smartcakes and Smartbuns to a select number of the chain’s stores, with the potential for expansion. Our goal at Smart Baking Co. is to give everyone, regardless of dietary needs, delicious, healthy options,” said Dave Heuvel, co-founder and VP of […]

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SOUTHWEST: Dunnhumby: H-E-B Dethrones Trader Joe’s As Top U.S. Grocery Retailer

Dunnhumby, a customer data science company, released its third annual dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index (RPI), a comprehensive, nationwide study that examines the $700 billion U.S. Grocery market. For the first time, H-E-B was rated the top U.S. grocery retailer, bumping Trader Joe’s from the top spot which the discounter has held the last two years. The regional […]

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Lehi Mills Launching Its First-Ever Vegan Line Of Mixes

Lehi Mills, a family-run mill located in Lehi, Utah, is launching its first-ever line of vegan mixes. The product line includes a vegan pancake/waffle mix, vegan brownie mix and vegan raspberry muffin mix. Starting early 2020, Lehi Mills customers will find the new vegan products on the company website and on Amazon. Shortly after the […]

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Updated: Strikes End At Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota UNFI DCs

According to multiple media outlets, Teamsters Local 414 members have returned to work at United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) facilities in Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota.  Teamsters Local 414 drivers, warehouse and maintenance workers went on strike Dec. 12 at the Fort Wayne UNFI distribution center to protest their claims of the company’s violations of federal […]

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Clabber Girl Rex Coffee Espresso Baking Chips Now Available At Walmart

Clabber Girl Corp. has brought its Rex Coffee Espresso Baking Chips exclusively to Walmart stores, with 12-oz. packages now available at more than 2,000 locations. The company says the product offers a new twist on traditional semi-sweet chocolate baking chips, bringing together coffee and chocolate flavors. Rex Coffee, an artisan, small-batch roastery that has produced coffee […]

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Mercato To Offer One Year Of Unlimited, Free Grocery Delivery For $1

Mercato, the online grocery e-commerce platform for independently owned grocery and specialty food stores, is putting its popular Mercato Green annual membership on sale for $1 (a $96 value) on Small Business Saturday. Mercato wants to encourage food shoppers to “shop small” year-round by providing this one-time, 24-hour offer for its delivery membership program on Saturday, Nov. […]

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Albertsons Cos. Appoints Rupp EVP, Chief Customer And Digital Officer

Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons Cos. has named Chris Rupp EVP and chief customer and digital officer, effective Dec. 3. Rupp joins Albertsons Cos. from Microsoft Corp., where she most recently served as GM of the company’s Xbox business engineering team. Rupp will be responsible for integrating and enhancing customers’ experiences across all digital touchpoints, accelerating the […]

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Salsify Ranks 87th On Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500

Salsify, a product experience management (PXM) platform, has been ranked 87th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. This ranking highlights the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Salsify is the only Boston-headquartered software company to rank in the top 100 of the Fast 500. A significant driver of […]

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Soto: Know Your Multicultural Customers So You Can Grow Sales

by Terry Soto/multicultural marketing expert The California Grocers Association’s “Minding the Gap” Strategic Conference took place recently in Palms Springs, California, where retailers brought up specific challenges they currently are attempting to manage when it comes to growing sales among multicultural grocery shoppers. Understanding how to assort authentically for diverse Hispanic and Asian shoppers came […]

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Whole Foods Market, Amazon Again Offering Turkey Deals

Starting Nov. 13, Amazon and Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market are offering deals on organic and classic turkeys for Thanksgiving. All customers can choose from select organic ($3.49 per pound) and classic turkeys ($2.49 per pound). Prime members will save $2.99 per pound on organic and $1.99 per pound on classic turkey. All turkeys sold […]

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Barnana Brings Industry Veteran Multari On Board As New CEO

Barnana, the natural snack brand that makes banana and plantain-based snacks, has brought in the former CEO of instant noodle company, Nissin North America, Al Multari, to lead its team. Barnana founder and former CEO Cauê Suplicy said, “We are proud to announce Al Multari as the new CEO. Barnana has always been driven by […]

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Beverage Companies Unite For ‘Every Bottle Back’ Initiative

The Coca-Cola Co., Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo launched the Every Bottle Back initiative, an effort to reduce the industry’s use of new plastic by making significant investments to improve the collection of the industry’s valuable plastic bottles so they can be made into new bottles. These competitors are coming together to support the circular […]

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Good Day Chocolate To Launch Functional CBD Chocolate Line

Boulder, Colorado-based Good Day Chocolate, the nationally distributed, category creator of chocolate supplements, is launching a new CBD product line that combines Fair Trade chocolate with pure, third-party-tested CBD in the form of broad spectrum hemp extract, organically grown at farms in Oregon and Colorado, with zero percent THC. The company says as a whole […]

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Joolies Named Best First-Time Exhibitor At PMA Fresh Summit 2019

Joolies, an organic medjool date company, won the award for Best First-Time Exhibitor at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit 2019. The Joolies booth was a standout amongst the more than 1,200 exhibitors as the summit had a record-breaking 24,000 attendees. “Joolies was chosen as the Best First-Time Exhibitor out of more than 160 first-time […]

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Whole Foods With Restaurant, Bar Opens In Long Beach, California

Whole Foods Market opened its new Long Beach, California, store at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23. Located in the 2nd & PCH shopping center at 6400 East Pacific Coast Highway, the new 45,000 s-f. store features hundreds of items from local producers, as well as an in-store bar and restaurant. Before the doors opened, the […]

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Tolerant Set To Showcase Organic Single-Ingredient Pastas At FNCE

Chicago, Illinois-based Tolerant, maker of organic single-ingredient pastas, will exhibit all seven of its dry pasta cuts at the 2019 Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE) Oct. 26th- 29th, 2019, at booth 659. All of Tolerant’s plant-based legume pastas are vegan, kosher, certified organic, high in protein and fiber, grain free, gluten free and […]

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Frito-Lay Offers Limited-Edition Reflective Trick-Or-Treat Bag

Plano, Texas-based Frito-Lay Variety Packs is partnering with Safe Kids Worldwide to raise awareness around the issue of children’s safety with the introduction of its first-ever limited-edition reflective trick-or-treat bag. The reflective bag helps increase a child’s visibility or the likelihood of being seen at night when reflecting a vehicle’s headlights or other source of […]

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Culinary Bob Bread Hero Promises Fresh Bread For Longer

The Culinary Bob [Everlasting] Bread Hero bread preserver is now available on Amazon, eBay and culinarybob.com, and will be coming soon to other retailers. Culinary Bob is a division of Bossanova Enterprises LLC, a family-, woman- and veteran-owned small business based in Altus, Oklahoma. According to founder Karen Brumme, the “Culinary Bob [Everlasting] Bread Hero […]

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HR & Benefits News: HR Helps Maintain ‘Most Trusted Retailer’ Status

HR & Benefits News is a monthly column by Chris Cooley, co-founder of MyHRConcierge and SMB Benefits Advisors. In today’s big-box and web-to-door mentality, grocers are considered the most trusted retailers according to the 2018 CX Retail Trends Report. “Almost 37 percent of consumers rank grocers as the most trusted retailers,” notes this Inmoment survey […]

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Ritual Zero Proof Echoes Taste, Nose, Burn Of Traditional Liquor

Consumers now have a new way to mark a moment with the launch of Ritual Zero Proof, the first American-made gin and whiskey alternatives to have the flavor, smell and burn of traditional spirits—without the alcohol or calories.  Consumers today want more choices when it comes to beverages. They are conscious of drinking “better not […]