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Winn-Dixie Unveils Newly Remodeled Store In Lakeland, Florida

Winn-Dixie officially reopened a recently remodeled store in Lakeland, Florida, in response to customers who asked for an improved shopping experience. As part of the grand opening ceremony and to officially reintroduce the community to the new and improved store, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at 7:45 a.m. on Oct. 25 at the store located […]

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ShopRite To Cut Ribbon For New Store In Riverhead, New York

ShopRite plans to cut the ribbon on a full-service supermarket in Riverhead, New York, with a ceremony set for 8 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21. Located at 1510 Old Country Road in the Riverhead Centre Plaza, the 60,000-s.f. supermarket is owned by K Thompson Foods LLC, a family-run company operated by Ken Thompson and his […]

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Fairlife Debuts Drinkable, Lactose-Free ‘Fairlife Smart Snacks’

Dairy company Fairlife LLC has launched fairlife smart snacks, a collection of snack-sized beverages designed to curb hunger between meals. The latest addition to the company’s portfolio of beverages, smart snacks are made with fairlife ultra-filtered milk, which is dairy milk that has been cold-filtered to remove the lactose while delivering 50 percent more protein and […]

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Aldi Never Any! Meats Receive The Good Housekeeping Seal

The entire lineup of products under the Aldi-exclusive brand of meats, Never Any!, has earned the Good Housekeeping Seal, a symbol of quality assurance and consumer protection since 1909. All meats in the Never Any! line are certified by the USDA as raised antibiotic-free, with no added hormones or steroids, and no animal byproducts (vegetarian fed). “The Aldi Never […]

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SpartanNash Foundation Fundraising Effort Takes Aim At Hunger

The SpartanNash Foundation is hosting a companywide fundraising effort to help end hunger in the communities it serves, inviting store guests to join the Foundation and SpartanNash associates in supporting more than 100 local food pantries and food banks. The retail scan campaign will run Oct. 24 to Nov. 4, and 100 percent of dollars […]

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H-E-B, Charles Butt Foundation Fund Medical High School Startup

H-E-B and its chairman and CEO, Charles Butt, are donating $2 million to support startup costs and renovations for San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) and Centers for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) Schools’ future CAST Med High School campus located at Brooks, a mixed-use development on San Antonio’s South Side. The school will be […]

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Instacart Raises $600M In New Funding For Expansion, Marketing

Instacart has raised $600 million as part of a financing round led by global investment advisory firm D1 Capital Partners. The investment from D1 Capital comes after a year of growth for Instacart and raises the company’s valuation to $7.6 billion. “The U.S. is nearly a $1 trillion grocery market, and last year we saw almost every […]

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Wisconsin Grocer Of The Year Gooseberries Crafting A 70/30 Experience

by Terrie Ellerbee/editor-Midwest Gooseberries Fresh Food Market opened its doors in 2006. Eight years later, David Spiegelhoff received the Wisconsin Grocers Association (WGA) Excellence in Operations Award. This year he and Gooseberries Fresh Food Market took the top honor as WGA Grocer of the Year. The association’s board of directors makes the selection. WGA President […]