This week, Kentucky’s Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles joined Kentucky Cattlemen’s Association leaders, Kroger officials and farmers to unveil a new all-Kentucky beef product—and celebrate National Agriculture Day. Kentucky Cattlemen’s Ground Beef is sold in 85 Kroger supermarkets across the Commonwealth in one-pound packages and in two-pound packages of four patties each. “On a day when […]
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Olé Mexican Foods Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary This Year
In 1988 Veronica Moreno sold her first order of tortillas from a recipe she learned from her grandmother. Today, 30 years later, Olé Mexican Foods Inc., maker of Olé and La Banderita tortillas, says it still aims to create “great food that brings friends and family together at the table.” On its 30th anniversary, Olé […]
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Rouses Will Replace Orange Beach, Alabama, Winn-Dixie This Spring
A Rouses Market soon will take the place of the Winn-Dixie at 25405 Perdido Beach Boulevard in Orange Beach, Alabama. The 40,000-s.f. store will be the company’s seventh location in Lower Alabama. The company is encouraging Winn-Dixie team members to apply for positions at the soon-to-be Rouses store. Rouses expects to acquire the store in late […]
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Southeastern Grocers Expanding Fresco Y Más To Central, West Florida
Southeastern Grocers (SEG), parent company of Bi-Lo, Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie stores, plans to expand its Fresco y Más Hispanic banner beyond South Florida and open three new locations in Orlando and Tampa, Florida. The new Fresco y Más locations will open in April and will offer customers “an authentic Hispanic grocery […]
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Rouses Rolls Out Meal Kits For Two At Most Of Its Stores
Busy customers who want a home-cooked meal now can take shopping and chopping off of their to-do list. Rouses Markets has introduced its own line of ready-to-cook meal kits to most of its markets. “We’re always looking for ways to help our customers who are short on time,” says Donny Rouse, CEO. “Our meal kits let you […]
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iGrabit Launches Meal Kit Program For Independent Grocers
Miramar, Florida-based iGrabit, an artificial intelligence-powered personal grocery shopping assistant, is launching a meal kit program as part of its ongoing efforts to better help its independent grocer partners compete online. “Meal kits, which started out as a direct-to-consumer subscription business, have migrated to the retail grocery channel in a big way, with food retailing giants […]
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Independent Grocer In Athens, Georgia, Testing Shelf-Scanning Robot
by Lorrie Griffith/editor–Southeast A robot comes out of the backroom each morning at 1 a.m. at the Bell’s Food Store at 995 Hawthorne Avenue in Athens, Georgia. It heads to the first aisle on its route and begins its mission. During this test phase at Bell’s, the three cameras on one side of the robot […]
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Southeastern Grocers Filing Prepackaged Chapter 11, Closing 94 Stores
Jacksonville, Florida-based Southeastern Grocers (SEG), parent company of Bi-Lo, Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie stores, has entered into an agreement with creditors to restructure its debt through a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The agreement will give unsecured note holders ownership of the company by canceling the notes and exchanging them for equity in the company, reports the Jax Daily Record. The company is […]