A recent poll of Austin residents indicates that an overwhelming majority—72 percent—would support an alternative to a proposed plastic bag ban, which if enacted, could prevent local retailers from providing plastic bags to customers when they check out. More than 400 registered voters were contacted by phone between Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 by data […]
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International Market Opening Second Location in Downtown Houston
Family-owned and operated Phoenicia Specialty Foods, a Houston-based international food market, will open the doors to its new downtown location in November 2011. Phoenicia Specialty Foods downtown is located at 1001 Austin Street in the One Park Place luxury high-rise, next to Discovery Green Park. According to a company press release, state-of-the-art food market featuring […]
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Affiliated Foods at 65: A Passion for Business
by Terrie Ellerbee/associate editor Ask Randy Arceneaux, president and CEO of Amarillo, Texas-based Affiliated Foods Inc., about his concerns for the grocery industry as a whole, and he will tell you that what keeps him up at night sometimes is “the fear that the independent operator, No. 1, loses the passion for the business. “Part […]
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Winn-Dixie Expands fuelperks! Throughout Central Florida
Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., is expanding the fuelperks! Rewards® Program throughout Central Florida. This expansion will include 62 Winn-Dixie stores in Orlando and Daytona, Fla., areas, and guests using the new Winn-Dixie Customer Reward Card (CRC) can begin earning significant fuel discounts at more 150 participating Shell stations. Winn-Dixie guests have already saved more than $26 […]
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Sunflower Farmers Market Announces Second Oklahoma Location
Sunflower Farmers Market, the full-service natural and organic grocer famous for “serious food at silly prices,” has announced it will open its second Oklahoma store in Edmond in 2012. The new market will be a free-standing store located at 24 E. 2nd St., on the southeast corner of E. 2nd and S. Broadway, and will […]
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Update: Colorado Farm Issues Voluntary Cantaloupe Recall
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning for cantaloupes from the Rocky Ford melon-producing area in Colorado and Jensen Farm issued a voluntary recall of their cantaloupes. On Sept. 19, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed that it found Listeria monocytogens in samples of Jensen Farms’ Rocky Ford cantaloupe taken from […]
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Colorado Farm Issues Voluntary Cantaloupe Recall
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning for cantaloupes from the Rocky Ford melon producing area in Colorado and Jensen Farm has issued a voluntary recall of their cantaloupes. A total of 22 persons infected with the outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from seven states, the CDC reported […]
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Sunflower Farmers Market Promotes Black to VP, Ops
by Terrie Ellerbee/associate editor Steve Black, a supermarket veteran with 34 years in the industry, was promoted this week to VP of operations for Sunflower Farmers Market. Sunflower is opening a new store in Oklahoma City Aug. 31, and it will be a homecoming for Black. He spent 30 of those 34 years in Oklahoma, […]