December will be festive at M&M’S World stores as Mars Retail Group has unveiled the new M&M’S World Holiday Village in each of its five M&M’S World locations, as well as online at www.mmsworld.com. The M&M’S World Holiday Village features a variety of seasonal-themed merchandise including dispensers, clothing, ornaments and, of course, holiday-themed M&M’S Brand […]
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Posted in, Southeast, Store News
US Foods Opening First Chef Store In Charlotte
Food company and distributor US Foods has taken 30,000 s.f. in the vacant former Walmart building on Eastway Drive in Charlotte and is opening a food and restaurant supply store in the space. It will offer more than 4,000 staples and specialty products for chefs, restaurant owners and food industry professionals, the Charlotte Business Journal […]
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The Fresh Market Reports Rise In Profits
Greensboro, N.C.-based The Fresh Market is reporting that, in its third fiscal quarter ending Oct. 28, net sales increased 22.1 percent to $321.5 million and comparable store sales increased 5.6 percent, compared to the corresponding 13-week period last year. Net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2012 increased 19.0 percent to $10.9 million, from […]
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Report: Cyber Monday Online Shopping Reaches All Time High
Holiday shoppers turned Cyber Monday into the biggest spending day ever with online sales growing 30.3 percent over the same period last year, according to cloud-based analytics findings by IBM. With an increase in online sales across multiple channels, the digital consumer took center stage. Retailers, marketing departments and CMOs delivered a consistent customer experience […]
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Price Cutter Purchases Summer Fresh Supermarkets
Locally and employee-owned Price Cutter Supermarkets, based in Springfield, Mo., has finalized its purchase of Summer Fresh Supermarkets, also based in Springfield, and assumed control of the chain’s eight Summer Fresh stores and two Save-A-Lot banners in Missouri. “The days leading up to Thanksgiving are some of the busiest for supermarkets and it was imperative […]
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Suspected Shoplifter Dies At Metro Atlanta Walmart
The Black Friday shopping weekend took a tragic turn early Sunday morning when a suspected shoplifter died while being apprehended by employees and a contract security officer outside a Lithonia, Ga., Walmart, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Two store employees who helped catch and subdue the suspect before police arrived have been placed on leave. The […]
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Black Friday Weekend Sales Hit Record
U.S. consumers spent more than $59 billion over the Black Friday weekend, the Associated Press reports. That sets a record for the post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping season, according National Retail Federation (NRF) numbers. The Sacramento Business Journal reports that U.S. sales were up 13 percent compared to last year. Extended hours and sales […]
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Kroger Receives American Cancer Society Corporate Impact Award
The Kroger Co. has been awarded a 2012 Excellence in Philanthropy Award from the American Cancer Society. The honor is given to corporations that have provided $1 million or more to the American Cancer Society during the previous calendar year through a variety of support activities. Kroger is one of 19 companies recognized this year. […]
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Rickland Orchards Offers Black Friday Give Away At Toy Retailers
Rickland Orchards Brand, creator of the first to market Greek Yogurt Coated Granola Bar, is enhancing the Black Friday shopping experience for Toys”R”Us and Babies”R”Us consumers across the country on Thanksgiving evening, the company says. Rickland Orchards’ Greek Yogurt Bars will be included in the toy retailers’ complimentary Great Big Goody Bag, which will be […]
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Brookshire’s Purchases, Converts Four Kaye’s Stores In North Louisiana
Texas-based Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) is opening Super 1 Foods in Winnsboro, La., this week, as well as Brookshire’s stores in Columbia and Jonesboro, KNOE 8 News reports. The company also will open a Brookshire’s store in Winnfield in the next few days. BGC purchased and began converting the four former Kaye’s Food Market stores […]
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Two Grocers Make Annual ‘Nice’ List
Consumer Reports has released its annual “Naughty & Nice” list, and two grocers made the list. Earning “nice” accolades is Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix and Pleasanton, Calif.-based Safeway. “Fewer supermarkets, it seems, follow the old practice of giving customers the item for free if it scans incorrectly at the checkout,” Consumer Reports says of Publix. “Fewer […]
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IGA Donates $265K To Wounded Warrior Project
IGA has donated $265,000 to Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) as a result of the second annual IGA Exclusive Brand national marketing initiative that ran in participating IGA stores from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend this year. During the promotional period, IGA donated a portion of the proceeds from the sale of IGA Exclusive […]
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Hugo’s To Purchase J&B Foods In Park Rapids, Minn.
Hugo’s Family Marketplace will acquire J&B Foods in Park Rapids, Minn. “We are excited to purchase a beautiful store like J&B Foods,” said Kristi Magnuson Nelson, president of Hugo’s. “Jeff and Bob Hensel have built a wonderfully successful supermarket in Park Rapids. J&B’s bakery, deli, meat and produce departments are top notch. Hugo’s is committed […]
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Market Street Plans To Open New Store In Flower Mound, Texas
Market Street has finalized plans for the construction of its seventh location in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, this one to be located in Flower Mound. The store will be part of The River Walk at Central Park development, at the northeast corner of Crosstimbers Road (FM1171) and Prairie Road (FM2499), according to Tony Crumpton, EVP […]
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Raley’s, Union Returning To Contract Negotiations
After a week of a strike and picketing at Raley’s and Nob Hill stores, the grocery chain and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union have announced a return to contract negotiations, the Sacramento Business Journal reports. In a Sunday announcement, West Sacramento, Calif.-based Raley’s said both sides have agreed not to talk about […]
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Whole Foods Posts Best Earnings In Company’s History
Whole Foods Market reported last week a fourth quarter profit of $112.7 million and revenue of $2.9 billion compared with a $75.4 million profit and revenue of $2.3 billion during the same quarter last year. The Austin Business Journal reports that the Austin, Texas-based natural grocer also posted a $465.5 million profit on revenue of […]
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Safeway Reaches Tentative Agreement With NorCal UFCW Locals
Pleasanton, Calif.-based Safeway Inc. has reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year labor agreement with United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Locals 5, 8 and 648 representing the company’s employees in Northern California. The new agreement will be recommended for ratification by the local unions to their members. “This new agreement provides our […]
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Whole Foods Opens First U.K. Store Outside Existing London Locations
Whole Foods Market opened Wednesday in Cheltenham on the Gallagher Retail Park. This Whole Foods is the Austin, Texas-based grocer’s first English store outside of the five existing London stores (plus one in Glasgow). Situated right at the heart of the Cotswolds and offering a vast range of high-quality, natural foods, beauty and health products, […]
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Lazy Acres Hosts Big Grand Opening For New Long Beach Store
More than 300 customers waited in a line that wrapped around the newest Lazy Acres store in Long Beach, Calif., on Wednesday in anticipation of the grocer’s grand opening. “We’re real excited about the turnout that we’ve had for the grand opening,” Kevin Davis, president and CEO of Bristol Farms, which owns the Lazy Acres […]
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Unified Grocers Establishes Online ‘eShop-Rewards’ Program
Unified Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery distributor in the western United States, is offering independent retailers an exclusive “eShop-Rewards” program that allows consumers to earn points toward a $25 prepaid Visa Rewards card (in addition to their regular credit card points) while shopping online at more than 1,000 of the nation’s top online merchants. Consumers […]