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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 CauĂȘ 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 […]