On Dec. 10, H-E-B, in partnership with Spurs Sports & Entertainment, launched an H-E-B 12 Days of Christmas Spurs Auction, an online auction that will feature more than a dozen collectibles from the grocer’s comical television commercials featuring San Antonio Spurs players. Items to hit the auction block include signed robes worn by Spurs legends […]
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U.K. Hair Thickening Brand Nanogen Launching At Select H-E-B Locations
Nanogen, a popular hair thickening brand in the U.K., is partnering with H-E-B to bring its Thickening Hair Fibres and select top-selling SKUs to select locations in Texas. Starting in January 2019, H-E-B customers will have direct access to the brand’s solutions for thinning hair. “We know the U.S. consumer is looking for solutions to thinning hair,” […]
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New Walmart Service Lets Customers Order Online, Pay In Cash
In a new move to provide more options for customers to shop the items they need, Walmart store associates now can order items for customers from Walmart.com via an app on their handheld touchscreen devices. This service combines the power of technology and Walmart associates to bring Walmart’s online merchandise to its physical stores, while allowing customers […]
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HAC Inc. Is The Shelby Report Of The Southwest’s Retailer Of The Year
Fresh executive team breathes new life into employee-owned Homeland Homeland is a banner of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based HAC Inc., which has been around for 102 years. Its mission is to operate the best grocery stores by providing exceptional customer service, clean and friendly stores, strong perishable departments, competitive prices, continuous involvement of technology to better […]
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San Antonio’s ArchPoint Group Acquires Watusee Foods
San Antonio, Texas-based ArchPoint Group, a global products and professional services company, has acquired Watusee Foods, which produces clean-label, limited-ingredient snack foods. According to ArchPoint, this acquisition aligns with its new business strategy of investing in “in small brands with great opportunity and bringing them to market with strong cross-functional expertise in sourcing, sales, warehousing, […]
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7-Eleven Franchise Owners Vote No Confidence In Corporate Leadership
The Board of the National Coalition of Associations of 7-Eleven Franchisees (NCASEF) has taken a vote of no confidence in the management of 7-Eleven Inc. (SEI). The board’s decision reflects franchisees’ belief that SEI has failed to focus resources and energy on improving declining store-level net profits, instead shoring up corporate gross profits at franchisee’s […]
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Natural Grocers Net Sales Up More Than 10 Percent In Fiscal 2018
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc. has released the results of its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2018. Highlights for fourth quarter and fiscal 2018 compared to fourth quarter and fiscal 2017 include: Net sales increased 9.6 percent to $217.5 million in the fourth quarter and increased 10.4 percent to $849.0 million in fiscal 2018. Daily […]
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Walmart Introduces New Focus On Hiring Military Spouses
Walmart now is giving hiring preference to military spouses, becoming the largest U.S. company to make such a commitment. The Military Spouse Career Connection, a new initiative by Walmart to recruit and hire military spouses, complements its 2013 Veterans Welcome Home commitment, enhanced in 2015, to hire 250,000 military veterans by 2020, a goal it […]