Every summer you can bet on two things coming from California: A blockbuster story hitting the movie screen and blockbuster legislation. Last year’s story was Assembly Bill 1998, a statewide bill to ban plastic bags and require a charge for paper bags. Grocers made the difficult decision to support the bill because we knew that […]
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Fresh & Easy Opens First San Francisco Store
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on June 22 joined U.S. Health and Human Services Regional Director Herb Schultz, executives from Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market and dozens of neighborhood leaders to open the grocer’s first store in San Francisco
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Times Supermarkets Switches Supply to Unified Grocers
Unified Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery distributor in the western Untied States, announced June 22 that Times Supermarkets (Times), a chain of 20 conventional supermarkets in Hawaii (stores are located on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Kauai), has switched its grocery supply business to Unified Grocers and will begin receiving groceries and other products […]
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Southern California Grocers Reach Agreement with UFCW
Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons revealed June 20 that the companies have reached a tentative agreement on the pension portion of the labor agreement currently being negotiated with the seven United Food and Commercial Workers Locals covering more than 60,000 employees in the region. In a statement the companies said, “We are pleased to have reached […]
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USC Food Industry Management Program & WAFC 53rd Annual Awards Banquet
The Food Industry Management Program at the University of Southern California is unique in its dedication to providing a concentrated management development program for high-potential managers of proven ability from food industry companies.
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Sunflower Farmers Market Opens First California Store
Sunflower Farmers Market, the full-service natural and organic grocer famous for “serious food at silly prices,” opened its first store in the California market on May 11 at 424 Roseville Sq. Sunflower Farmers Market currently has 33 stores throughout six Southwestern states, but this is Sunflower’s first foray into California. The new store will also […]
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Fresh & Easy Announces San Francisco Opening Dates
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market revealed the opening dates for its first two stores in San Francisco. These store openings will create more than 50 good jobs and the company is currently accepting applications for positions on its website at www.freshandeasy.com/joinus. Fresh & Easy will open two stores in San Francisco this summer at 32nd […]
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Help Us, Mr. Attorney General — Our Industry Is on the Ropes
CGA President Ronald Fong continues his series of open letters to our newly elected state constitutional officers. This issue’s letter is addressed to California Attorney General Kamal D. Harris. Dear Attorney General Harris, California is the nation’s leader in many things and most of them are admirable. But our state’s increasingly anti-grocery regulatory and litigation […]