On Friday, Hy-Vee will host its annual Veterans Day breakfasts to recognize and thank veterans and active-duty military members for their service and will provide them with a complimentary meal. The grocery chain expects to serve more than 90,000 veterans, military members and their guests at 242 stores across its eight-state Midwest operating area this […]
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Safeway Opens New Store In San Jose
Safeway opened a new store in San Jose, California, at 1489 Bird Avenue in the Willow Glen Village Shopping Center, on Nov. 9. Robert Garza serves as the store director. The new store is the 13th Safeway location in San Jose and the fourth new store to open in the Bay Area this year. The grocer’s […]
Medina Liquor Agency Now Operating Inside Buehler’s Store
The Buehler’s Medina River Styx store in Medina, Ohio, marked the official opening of the Medina Liquor Agency, inside of the supermarket, on Monday. This completes the transfer and relocation agreement with the Wine Reserve to purchase the Medina Liquor Agency. Dan Shanahan, president and COO of Buehler’s Fresh Foods, said, “With the highly successful […]
Kogi Opens Inside El Segundo Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market has partnered with Los Angeles chef Roy Choi to open a Kogi location inside its El Segundo, California, store. It will debut Wednesday at 760 S. Sepulveda Boulevard in Plaza El Segundo. The opening coincides with the completion of a major remodel of the 66,500-s.f. store. Located within the prepared foods section, Kogi will offer a full […]
Wegmans Opens Its Final Store For The Year In Charlottesville, Virginia
Wegmans opened its newest store—in Charlottesville, Virginia—on Sunday. It marks the last of four Wegmans units opening this year; the others debuted in Midlothian and Short Pump, Virginia, in May and August, respectively, and Owings Mills, Maryland, in September. The 120,000-s.f. Charlottesville unit is at the intersection of Interstate 64 and 5th Street. It is […]
Bashas’ Remodels Its First Native American Reservation Store
Bashas’ will debut its newly remodeled Diné Market in Chinle, Arizona, on Wednesday. The unit is the first store that Bashas’ opened on a Native American reservation. It also is the first Diné Market to receive a full remodel since 2008. The store is located at the corner of Highway 91 and Route 7. “The first […]
Schnucks To Open New Peoria, Illinois, Store On Nov. 9
The new Schnucks at Knoxville Crossing in Peoria, Illinois, will open to customers at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. Located at 10405 North Centerway Drive (61615), Schnucks Knoxville Crossing marks the company’s second location in Peoria. The new store is a 70,000-s.f., full-service supermarket with an emphasis on fresh, […]
Small-Format ‘Waremart By WinCo’ Will Debut At Old Haggen Spot In Oregon
WinCo Foods plans to open a new “smaller format” store next year in Keizer, Oregon, at an old Haggen lot. The approximately 40,000-s.f. concept will be called Waremart by WinCo—harkening back to WinCo’s original name when it was founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1967, according to the Statesman Journal. The newspaper reports that WinCo has […]
Winn-Dixie Opens Next-Generation Store In South Tampa
Southeastern Grocers, parent company of Bi-Lo, Harveys and Winn-Dixie, on Thursday opened what it calls a local evolution of the flagship Winn-Dixie concept that debuted in Jacksonville earlier this year. The new Winn-Dixie at Hyde Park, located at 2100 W. Swann Avenue, has been tailored specifically to the South Tampa community with a focus on quality […]
Coborn’s Completes ‘Next-Generation’ Store Remodel In Sartell, Minnesota
Coborn’s Inc. has completed a major remodel of its Coborn’s Superstore in Sartell, Minnesota. The store, located in the Pine Cone Road Market Place, has remained open over the last several months as it underwent renovations to introduce the company’s “next-generation” store format—the first of its kind in the company’s home market. The remodeled store […]
Mother’s Market & Kitchen Celebrating Anniversary With Harvest Fair On Saturday
Mother’s Market & Kitchen, a natural and organic foods retailer with seven Orange County locations, will celebrate its 38th anniversary with a special Harvest Fair and public event on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the company’s Santa Ana, California, store at 151 E. Memory Lane. The event will be held from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and is free […]
Harvest Market Designed To Cultivate Shopper And Producer Connections
When Niemann Foods Inc. (NFI) President and CEO Rich Niemann spoke about the company’s new Harvest Market as it opened to the public on Oct. 6 at 2029 South Neil Street in Champaign, Illinois, he shared the store’s mission: to connect food producers and makers with its customers. He talked about food and he talked […]
Whole Foods Market To Debut New Flagship Store In Philly On Friday
Philadelphia’s new flagship Whole Foods Market store at 2101 Pennsylvania Avenue will open Friday, Oct. 14, with a bread-breaking ceremony at 8:45 a.m. before doors open at 9 a.m. “We are so proud to be relocating our Callowhill store in the heart of historic Philadelphia and cannot wait to share our new city vista with […]
Utah’s Reams Springville Market Offers Online Ordering, Pickup And Delivery
Reams Springville Market, a central Utah supermarket at 759 East 400 South, now offers online grocery with in-store pickup and same-day home delivery services. Springville, population 31,000, includes a Walmart that already offers online grocery shopping, and Kroger is building a new 123,000-s.f. store that will offer ClickList, the company’s curbside pickup program. Amberly Brimhall, the owner […]
Western Markets To Debut New Mountain Brook Store In Birmingham On Thursday
Alabama’s Western Markets will host a grand opening of its new Mountain Brook store in the Lane Parke development of Mountain Brook Village in Birmingham on Thursday, Oct. 13. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. The new Western Market will replace an existing store, which the grocer has called home since 1959. “We’re a […]
The Fresh Grocer Opens New Store In Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
The Fresh Grocer opened its newest store at 421 S. 69th Street in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 30. The 53,000-s.f. unit is owned and operated by Patrick J. Burns and the Burns family, who have more than 30 years experience in the supermarket business in the greater Philadelphia area. “We are delighted and excited […]
Publix Pharmacies In Florida To Offer Strep, Flu Tests
Publix Super Markets said Oct. 3 that its Florida Publix pharmacies are offering testing and treatment for strep throat and flu for customers 13 years of age or older. Publix pharmacists now can evaluate patients, perform a diagnostic test and dispense treatment in one visit. For patients who test positive for flu, pharmacists also are […]
Sushi Fest At Wegmans In Fairfax, Virginia, Begins Friday
The Wegmans store in Fairfax, Virginia, will host Sushi Fest beginning Friday, Sept. 30. Guests can “experience the excitement of Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Fish Market right in our store,” according to the Rochester, New York-based grocery chain. The free event will feature unique Japanese fish, sashimi and sushi, select cuts of Kobe Beef, Shabu Shabu, […]
Kroger Reports 2Q Results
The Kroger Co. has reported net earnings of $383 million, or $0.40 per diluted share, and identical supermarket sales growth, without fuel, of 1.7 percent in the second quarter of 2016 ended Aug. 13. Net earnings in the same period last year were $433 million, or $0.44 per diluted share. The company’s net earnings per […]
Day’s Market In Heber City, Utah, To Become Lee’s Marketplace
Lee’s Marketplace is expanding to Heber City, Utah. The locally owned grocer plans to purchase Day’s Market in Heber City and transition the store to a Lee’s Marketplace. The sale is expected to be finalized on Sept. 26. “We are excited to bring Lee’s to the Heber community and are looking forward to getting to […]
