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AFS Loyalty Program Reports Increased Basket Size, Digital Coupon Use

Salt Lake City-based Associated Food Stores (AFS) has renewed its loyalty program service contract with Accelitec, offering new digital features to AFS membership.  A partnership that began in 2012 with loyalty services has continued to scale with a number of new features and wide adoption by AFS retailers. Together, AFS and Accelitec have created a […]

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SpartanNash Foundation Raises $300,000 For Patriotic Partners

Together with its store guests and company associates, the SpartanNash Foundation raised $300,000 for its patriotic nonprofit partners—Team Red, White & Blue, Operation Homefront and Honor and Remember. Between June 26 and July 7, store guests who visited any participating SpartanNash-owned retail store or fuel center had the opportunity to donate $1, $5 or $10 […]

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Silver Eagle Distributors Names Limbaugh To VP Role

Silver Eagle Distributors L.P., an Anheuser-Busch wholesaler headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, has named James P.  “J.P.” Limbaugh II as VP of sales and marketing. His responsibilities include the management of all sales, marketing and special events for Silver Eagle’s 13-county territory. The counties are Atascosa, Bexar, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Real, Uvalde, […]

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Lipari Foods Modernizes Invoice-To-Cash Processes On ETran Platform

Lipari Foods has launched the Financial Transmission Network Inc. (FTNI) ETran Integrated Receivables platform to deliver payment processing solutions spanning multiple payment methods and channels all on a single, cloud-based platform.  Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Lipari Foods is a distributor of deli, bakery, packaging and grocery products and services. A member of UniPro Foodservice, Lipari […]

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Associated Wholesale Grocers Partners With RSA America

Kansas City, Kansas-based Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) has partnered with RSA America (RSA), a supermarket technology company specializing in delivering mobile rewards. RSA America now will be one of AWG’s preferred mobile loyalty reward and coupon vendors. “This is a great digital solution for our member retailers and we look forward to working with RSA […]

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Wakefern, Takeoff Technologies Open Automated E-Commerce Center

Takeoff Technologies and Wakefern Food Corp. have teamed up to launch an automated micro-fulfillment center (MFC) in Clifton, New Jersey. With Takeoff, orders are placed online through retailers—whether using their existing e-commerce platform or Takeoff’s customized UI solution—and Takeoff’s automated technology fulfills the order using robots in MFCs.  Takeoff utilizes advanced robotics in the MFC, […]

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AG Baton Rouge Reveals Changes In Key Leadership

Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Associated Grocers Inc. named Manard Lagasse Jr. its new president and CEO May 30. In July, Lagasse announced leadership changes designed to “enhance Associated Grocers’ position for growth in the coming years.” “We have been a leader in the wholesale grocery industry for many years, and I am confident with these changes, […]

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Krause’s Market Wins Record Fourth UNFI Beef Stampede Contest

Krause’s Market in Garrison, North Dakota, earned top honors for a record fourth time in five years in UNFI’s National Beef Stampede Merchandising Contest. More than 600 grocery stores from across the country participate in the annual merchandising contest promoted every fall to showcase beef as the center-of-the-plate protein of choice. Retailers nationwide served by […]