Chiquita Brands International Inc. is offering incentives to entice its executives to move to Charlotte, N.C., reports The Charlotte Business Journal. In a securities filing Tuesday, the company spelled out the relocation benefits it will offer key employees who choose to transfer. Those benefits include payment for the costs of searching for a new residence […]
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Publix Deal Brings New Owner At Celebration Shopping Center
A shopping center in Celebration, Fla., has a new owner after Publix signed up to be a 50,000-s.f. anchor tenant, reports the Tampa Bay Business Journal. A group based in New York bought the 124,000-s.f. Water Tower Shoppes from General Electric Credit Equities in January. The center had been struggling for nearly seven years since […]
Posted in, Perishables, Southeast, Suppliers
Annual National Retail Beef Backer Awards Announced
Broulim’s Fresh Foods, Haggen Food & Pharmacy/TOP Foods, Harris Teeter Inc., and Safeway were given the National Retail Beef Backer awards during the 2012 Cattle Industry Annual Convention & NCBA Trade Show in Nashville, Tenn., last week. Funded by the Beef Checkoff Program, this effort recognizes grocery establishments that are doing an outstanding job of […]
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More Than 500 Walmart Women File EEOC Discrimination Charges
In a move to protect their right to pursue individual and class-action pay and promotion claims against Walmart Stores Inc., more than 500 former and current Walmart women employees who had been part of a national class-action lawsuit have filed a charge of discrimination against the retailer with the U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission […]
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Carney To Assume CFO Job Following BI-LO, Winn-Dixie Merger
Brian Carney, current EVP and CFO of BI-LO, will soon be taking on a bigger role—pending the merger of the South Carolina-based grocery with Winn-Dixie. Carney will assume the CFO position of the combined companies. Winn-Dixie CFO Bennett Nussbaum is leaving the position to become integration lead following the completion of the merger. Before joining […]
Posted in, Equipment & Technology, Northeast, Southeast
Piggly Wiggly Carolina Expands Online Grocery Service
After successfully offering online shopping in 10 stores for the past four years, Piggly Wiggly Carolina has expanded its Click’n Shop program to 26 additional locations, nearly tripling Piggly Wiggly’s eCommerce presence in South Carolina. With MyWebGrocer’s Click’n Shop online shopping solution, Piggly Wiggly Carolina shoppers can purchase groceries online and choose to pick up […]
Posted in, C-Store News, Southeast, Southwest
7-Eleven Acquires 55 Sam’s Mart Stores in the Carolinas
Slurpee® drinks, Big Bite® hotdogs, Big Gulp® beverages and other convenient services are on their way to Charlotte. Dallas, Texas-based 7-Eleven Inc. has entered into an agreement with Sam’s Mart LLC to acquire 55 Sam’s Mart stores in North and South Carolina and convert them to 7-Eleven® stores this year. The transaction is anticipated to […]
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Target Remodeling 3 Richmond, Va., Stores to Carry More Groceries
The Richmond, Va., region’s cutthroat grocery industry will become even more competitive this spring, reports the Richmond Times Dispatch. Target has started remodeling three of its 12 Richmond-area stores to increase the number of grocery items at those locations by about 40 percent. More area stores could follow. According to the Dispatch, the Minnesota-based retailer […]