The board of directors of Big Y Foods in Springfield, Massachusetts, has named Mathieu D’Amour as VP of real estate and development and Theresa Jasmin as VP of finance. In addition, Devyn Blais Webb has been promoted to accounting director. D’Amour will continue to lead the real estate and store development teams to continue to identify […]
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Walmart Expanding Grocery Pickup To Eight New Markets, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… Walmart is broadening its grocery pickup option to eight additional markets, expanding beyond its current 20 sites, with plans to add more locations throughout the year. Free grocery pickup will be offered in Kansas City; Boise, Idaho; Richmond and Virginia Beach, Virginia; Austin, Texas; Provo, Utah; Daphne, Alabama; and Charleston, […]
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Arizona Food Marketing Alliance Hosts Annual Golf Classic
The Arizona Food Marketing Alliance (AFMA) recently hosted its annual Golf Classic at the We-Ko-Pa Golf Club near Scottsdale. It marked the the sixth time the AFMA Golf Classic has returned to We-Ko-Pa. This year’s event attracted more than 300 golfers, including AFMA’s retail partners and their vendors. With 19 sampling holes on the course, […]
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Southeastern Grocers Fast Tracks Cage-Free Egg Commitment
Southeastern Grocers, parent company to Bi-Lo, Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores, said Friday that it has committed to converting 100 percent of its private label eggs to cage free during 2017 and targeting the expansion of that commitment to the remainder of eggs sold by 2025, based on availability. In 2015, Bi-Lo, Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores […]
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Lowes Foods Introduces Next-Gen eCircular, Blending ‘Best Of Print And Digital’
Lowes Foods, with digital solutions provider Unata, has released a new 1-to-1 personalized, omni-channel eCircular for grocery retailers. The new eCircular currently is live with Lowes Foods as part of its Lowes Foods-To-Go website and will be live as a standalone online experience in May. According to the companies, until now, retailers have had significant […]
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Kroger Marketplace Opens In Clute, Texas, As Anchor Of New Woodshore Development
A Kroger Marketplace opens Wednesday, April 13, as part of the first phase of the Woodshore Marketplace in Clute, Texas—an approximately 140,000-s.f. shopping center at the southeast corner of Oyster Creek Drive and Dixie Drive within the master-planned Woodshore community near Houston. As the anchor for Woodshore Marketplace, the 124,000-s.f. Kroger Marketplace features a selection […]
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PLMA: Store Brands Growth Continues, Setting New Mark For Sales In Leading Channels
Store brands sales reached $118.4 billion in 2015, an all-time record and an increase of $2.2 billion over the previous year. In the past two years alone, annual sales are up 5 percent, or $5.4 billion, in the major retail channels, according to the Private Label Manufacturers Association’s (PLMA) 2016 Private Label Yearbook. Store brands […]
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Sprouts To Open A Dozen New Stores In 3Q
Sprouts Farmers Market plans to open 12 new locations in 2016’s third quarter. The new stores slated to open in July, August and September are located at: • 2325 Sand Creek Road, Brentwood, California • 175 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, California • 8985 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, California • 2060 E. Baseline Road, Mesa, Arizona • 143 […]
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National Grocers Association Launches New Strategic Growth Program
The National Grocers Association (NGA) is introducing a new education program that will provide in-depth training to develop a strategic business plan that addresses multifaceted business issues faced by independent supermarket operators. The Sustainable Business Growth Strategies program, sponsored by Unilever, is designed to provide independent supermarket operators with the necessary tools and resources to […]
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Albertsons Introduces Exclusive Private Label Line Called Signature
Albertsons Cos. has launched its new store brand, Signature—the largest private label across all 2,286 of its stores. Signature is a multi-category brand developed to address consumers’ growing appetite for quality private label products from stores they trust, according to the Boise, Idaho-based grocery chain. The Signature line includes more than 4,000 items—from coffee to juice, […]
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Stop & Shop And Five Unions Reach Tentative Contract, And More…
Grocery News In Brief… Five branches of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with Stop & Shop New England on April 9. The previous contract expired in late February. If approved, the agreement covers Stop & Shop stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The tentative […]
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Festival Foods Debuts Smaller Format Store In Madison
Festival Foods opened a new store Friday in Madison, Wisconsin, and its 50,000-s.f. size makes it unique for the chain, said Mark Skogen, owner and CEO. “It is a departure from our normal format, a little bit smaller, and we have fresh product on one side of the store, dry product on the other, which […]
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Louisville’s First Fresh Thyme Coming This Month
Fresh Thyme Farmers Market will open its first Louisville, Kentucky, store, on Wednesday, April 27. It will mark the grocer’s second store in the Bluegrass State. According to Louisville Business First, Fresh Thyme renovated a 28,000-s.f. building at 4301 Shelbyville Road near Hubbards Lane in the East End. It was previously home to a Liquor […]
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Next Round Of SoCal Aldi Stores To Open April 21
About a month after it debuted its first California stores, Aldi will open its next round of stores in the region on Thursday, April 21. Six of the 10 new stores will be located in Los Angeles County, three in Orange County and one in San Bernardino County. “California customers who are new to Aldi […]
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Whole Foods Sets Opening Date For First 365 Store
Whole Foods Market will open its first 365 by Whole Foods Market on May 25 in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Two additional 365 by Whole Foods Market locations will open in 2016—in Bellevue, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Up to 10 stores are expected to open in 2017. (Update: See photos from the grand […]
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Publix Will Distribute $3.7M To Southeastern Nonprofits From Latest Food For All Fundraiser
Publix Super Markets will distribute a total of $3.73 million from its Food For All 2015 fundraiser to nonprofit organizations across its southeastern footprint. The annual event distributes funds to support programs that fight hunger and advocate for self-sufficiency on a local and regional level. This year, the campaign funded more than 175 charities across the […]
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Wisconsin’s Woodman’s Markets Expands Online Ordering And Delivery Service
After successfully launching online ordering in Madison, Wisconsin, Woodman’s Markets is rolling out ShopWoodmans.com in Milwaukee, allowing shoppers to order items online to be picked up at the store or delivered to their home and office. Woodman’s says it is the first grocer in the area to offer online ordering and delivery to the entire […]
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Fareway First To Introduce Invisipon Digital Coupon Solution
Fareway Stores says it is the first supermarket chain in the U.S. to go live with Invisipon, a patent-pending digital coupon solution that automatically applies manufacturer coupons in a customer’s personal coupon account to the total at checkout without any effort on the part of the customer. The Invisipon system allows all Fareway customers to […]
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Kroger Appoints Smith’s President
The Kroger Co. has promoted Kenny Kimball, currently VP of operations in the company’s Smith’s division, to serve as president of Smith’s, effective April 30. Kimball succeeds Jay Cummins, whose retirement was announced in February. “Kenny’s passion for developing associates and his commitment to putting our customers first will further accelerate growth in our important […]
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Albertsons Rolls Out Just For U Tool In Dallas-Fort Worth Area
Albertsons has launched its Just for U online and mobile shopping tool in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The program gives shoppers an easier way to save on groceries and delivers targeted savings directly to a customer’s account. Shoppers can add offers to their account through the Just for U app, enter their phone number at […]