ShopRite will hold a grand opening Oct. 21 for its new 90,000-square-foot supermarket at 900 Bloomfield Ave. in West Caldwell, New Jersey, which replaces a former location at 540 Passaic Ave. Sunrise ShopRite, the family business that has been part of the West Caldwell community for nearly 85 years, is hosting festivities for residents and […]
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ShopRite To Hold Store Grand Opening April 13 In Watchung, NJ
A new ShopRite at 1701 U.S.-22 in Watchung, New Jersey, will open April 9 and host a grand-opening celebration with special giveaways April 13. The town’s current ShopRite will close April 8. The Sumas family and its company, Village Super Market Inc., which owns and operates the new store, will kick off the festivities at […]
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Magnum Ice Cream Debuts 3 New Product Varieties
Magnum Ice Cream, a brand of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey-based Unilever, introduced three new product varieties: Non-Dairy Sea Salt Caramel Bars, Double Pistachio Honey Tubs and Double Almond Brown Butter Tubs. Joining Classic and Almond varieties, Magnum Non-Dairy Sea Salt Caramel Bars have a non-dairy sea salt caramel base dipped in a cracking non-dairy chocolate […]
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LaMonica Fine Foods’ Canned Seafood Stars On New York Billboard
LaMonica Fine Foods, based in Millville, New Jersey, has secured a static billboard for an eight-week period that is highly visible to commuters traveling from New Jersey into Staten Island via the Outerbridge Crossing. The billboard showcases the company’s retail line of canned seafood products, including hand-shucked sea clams, clam juice and scungilli. The 14’ […]
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NORTHEAST: Four New Jersey Supermarkets To Be Rebranded As The Fresh Grocer
The Maniaci family and its Nicholas Markets company, which currently operate four Foodtown stores in Cedar Grove, Colonia, North Haledon, and the Township of Washington, New Jersey, will transition its stores to The Fresh Grocer brand starting in February. The Fresh Grocer is a registered trademark of the retailer-owned cooperative Wakefern Food Corp. specializing in […]
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QuickChek Promotes Two Key Execs, Opens New Store
QuickChek Corp. has promoted two key members of its management team and opened its first new store of 2020. Don Leech, who has been with the Whitehouse Station, New Jersey-based fresh convenience market chain for 35 years, has been promoted to VP of marketing and development. He served as VP of real estate and development […]
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Goya Foods Offers Culinary Arts And Food Science Scholarships
Every year, Jersey City, New Jersey-based Goya Foods, America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, grants $20,000 Culinary Arts and Food Science Scholarships to four students nationwide entering their freshman year of college with an undergraduate degree in culinary arts and/or a food science. Goya’s Culinary Arts Scholarship is available on a competitive basis to students entering […]
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Pre Continues Distribution Expansion To Northeast
Pre Brands, a Chicago-based provider of branded grass-fed and finished beef, continues its expansion strategy with a launch in the New York and New Jersey markets. “Pre delivers category-leading basket size, repeat and household trips, due to our excellent product quality and strong consumer and customer investments,” said Pre Brands CEO Kevin Ponticelli. “We’re […]
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Grass-Fed Beef Co. Verde Farms Opens N.J. Processing Facility
Verde Farms, a U.S. provider of 100 percent grass-fed, 100 percent free-range, organic beef, is opening of its own processing facility in Mullica Hill, New Jersey. Marking a major milestone for the company, the opening signals Verde’s enhanced capability to process its products in-house, while also offering advanced processing services to a select number of […]
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Inserra ShopRite Partners With Butterflake Bakery In New Milford
New Milford, New Jersey-based Inserra ShopRite is partnering with Butterflake Bakery of Teaneck, New Jersey. Butterflake’s specially made breads, cakes and desserts will be delivered daily fresh to ShopRite of New Milford, home to the ShopRite Bake Shop, which features professionally trained bakers and cake decorators. “We are delighted to partner with another family-owned and operated local […]
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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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Foley Succeeds Leopardi As President Of Meals & Beverages At Campbell
Chris Foley has been named president of Campbell Meals & Beverages and SVP of Campbell Soup Co., the Camden, New Jersey-based company announced June 10. Foley succeeds Roberto Leopardi, former president–Meals & Beverages, who is leaving the company. Foley will lead the $4.3 billion Meals & Beverages division that includes the company’s U.S. soup, simple […]
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Stew Leonard’s To Make Its New Jersey Debut This Fall
Stew Leonard’s will open its first New Jersey store this fall at the Paramus Mall in an 80,000-s.f. space that was a Sears store for 45 years. According to the retailer, 350 new jobs will be created. A groundbreaking is scheduled for Friday, March 29, at 11 a.m. Stew Leonard Jr., CEO of the company […]
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New Jersey Will Get $15 Minimum Wage; Congress Considers Similar Action
New Jersey will soon have a $15 minimum wage after Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law legislation that would gradually raise the state’s starting wage to $15 per hour by 2024, NJ.com reports. The first pay raise will bump the current $8.85 to $10 an hour on July 1. New Jersey is the fourth state to mandate […]
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Food Emporium Celebrates Newest Location In Marlboro, New Jersey
Key Food Stores Co-operative, a New York-based company primarily comprising independently owned and corporate grocery stores, opened its newest The Food Emporium location in Marlboro, New Jersey, on May 11. “Store owner Joe Doleh has worked so hard to make The Food Emporium into a beautiful store,” said John Durante, Key Food VP of business […]
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Stop & Shop, Western Beef Bring ‘Healthy Savings’ To New York, New Jersey
Eligible UnitedHealthcare and Oxford health plan participants and their dependents in New York and New Jersey soon will be able to buy healthy foods at discounted prices through the Healthy Savings program at more than 180 Stop & Shop and Western Beef store locations. UnitedHealthcare is distributing Healthy Savings cards in the mail this week […]
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Company Veteran Wescoe Named President Of Whole Foods’ Northeast Region
Whole Foods Market announced Jan. 8 that it has appointed 24-year company veteran Nicole Wescoe as president of its Northeast region, overseeing 41 stores in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Her territory includes the East Coast’s first Whole Foods Market 365 store, opening in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood in January, and a new Whole […]
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Recommended: Lidl Hits The Brakes On N.J. Grocery Store As Other Store Plans Scrapped
Plans by German discount grocer Lidl to begin construction on its second New Jersey store have stalled as the company hits the brakes on several proposed locations in other states. Lidl, which operates about 10,000 stores globally, entered the U.S. market in June with several store openings in the southeast as part of a plan […]
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Wegmans, Instacart Expand Same-Day Delivery From Pa., N.J. Stores
Wegmans Food Markets has expanded its same-day grocery delivery service through Instacart to select stores in southeastern Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley and southern New Jersey. The service allows Wegmans customers to complete their grocery shopping online and have their orders delivered to their doors in as little as an hour. Wegmans customers can fill their virtual carts by […]
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New Jersey Raises Smoking Age To 21
With Gov. Chris Christie signing the bill into law Friday, New Jersey joined the growing list of states and communities prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to anyone under age 21. Tobacco 21 laws also have been enacted by California, Hawaii and at least 255 cities and counties, including New York City, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, […]