The National Grocers Association (NGA) has promoted Aileen Dullaghan Munster to VP of education and research and Matthew R. Ott to VP of membership and information technology. Munster previously served as director of education and research for NGA. She is responsible for setting strategy for education initiatives as well as the development and management of […]
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C.H. Robinson, AARP Unveil Tropicana Clementines Packaging To Fight Hunger
C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc., one of the world’s largest produce sourcing and logistics companies, has teamed up with AARP and AARP Foundation to support the Drive to End Hunger initiative by offering specially designed packaging on Tropicana clementines at retailers nationwide. Available on three-pound bags and five-pound race CARtons, the packaging will include imagery of […]
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Lipton Marketing Campaign Features First TV Ad For Black Tea Since 1989
Lipton is putting the spotlight on its black tea to encourage consumers to “Drink Positive” in 2013. As part of this effort, the brand has unveiled a new national advertising campaign for its classic black tea, a first in more than 20 years. The multi-channel campaign includes television, digital, in store, social, public relations and […]
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MyWebGrocer Wins 2012 Marcom Gold Award
MyWebGrocer’s Brand Activation Suite has won a Gold Level MarCom Award in the web elements/ads category. The international competition recognizes outstanding creative achievement by marketing and communication professionals, and for the 2012 award chose winners from more than 6,000 entries. MyWebGrocer (MWG) is a leading provider of digital solutions for the grocery industry. The Brand Activation […]
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Top Customer Experience Trends To Watch In 2013
Temkin Group, a leading market research and consulting firm that helps organizations improve their customer experience, has released its forecast of 13 customer experience trends to watch in 2013. In a previous research report, The Future of Customer Experience, Temkin Group identified that the practice of customer experience had entered into what it calls The […]
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C.H. Robinson Helps Timberwolves Foundation Tip Off Initiative
Through WolvesCare Month, presented by C.H. Robinson, the Minnesota Timberwolves FastBreak Foundation will turn its attention this January to some of the Wolves’ smallest fans, but those with the biggest hearts: children suffering chronic illnesses. Throughout the month at each Timberwolves game and at events across the community, the FastBreak Foundation’s WolvesCare initiative will work […]
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Festive Facts From Mintel
As the final countdown begins, Mintel gets into the holiday spirit with a variety of festive stats and figures covering food and drink, health, alcohol, shopping, household goods and personal care. Food, spirits and baking habits • More than nine in 10 (91 percent) Americans made some sort of festive-related purchase last year (2011), whether […]
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Social Media, Mobile Technology Increasingly Driving Shopper Behavior
by Kristen Cloud/staff writer Kevin Kirsch, co-owner of Chevy Chase Supermarket in Chevy Chase, Md., understands the importance of technology and social media. In fact, he assumes the younger generation expects his 25,000-s.f. single-store operation to have a website, at the very least. “Then I assume that you figure stores should at least have a […]
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Safeway Offers Baking Items, Virtual Cupcake Decorator For Holidays
According to a recent Safeway survey, 78 percent of shoppers plan to make baking cookies a family activity during the holiday season, with 82 percent planning to serve or gift homemade baked goods. Whether baking from scratch or looking for the perfect ready-to-go dessert to take to a party, Safeway is the destination for everything […]
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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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Walmart Debuts Monthly Food Subscription Service
Walmart has launched Goodies Co., a monthly food subscription service for consumers to savor foods and discover new items. For $7 a month, including tax and shipping, subscribers receive a gift box at their doorstep filled with five to eight hand-picked taster samples ranging from healthy and organic to artisan and ethnic. The new Goodies […]
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First Culinary Tablet Made For The Kitchen Launches In The U.S.
French digital company Unowhy has announced the U.S. launch of “La tablette QOOQ,” the first interactive touch-screen tablet made especially for the kitchen. Already a sensation in France, the QOOQ culinary tablet transforms the process of at-home cooking through highly interactive content from leading chefs, helping to simplify meal preparation for culinary experts and novices […]
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Poultry Industry Continues To Improve Worker Safety Record
The incidence of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in the poultry sector, which includes slaughter and processing, continues to decline, according to the 2011 Injury and Illness Report recently released by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The total recordable poultry processing illness and injury rate for 2011 was 5.8 cases per […]
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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 […]
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Fairway Market’s Turkey Ordering Website Goes Live
Need an organic turkey for Thanksgiving? Or a kosher one? A locally, humanely raised bird? Or do you want to impress your friends and family with a bird descended from the original Thanksgiving table? New York, N.Y.-based Fairway Market has them all and more, and all it takes to get them is a click on […]
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N.C.-based blu eCigs To Help Rid Wrightsville Beach Of Littered Butts
blu eCigs has teamed up with Keep New Hanover County Beautiful and InnovaGreen Systems for the second annual Great American Butt Clean event taking place on the coastline in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., on Saturday, Nov. 3. “Flicking a butt is kicking our environment’s butt because, every year, discarded cigarette butts litter our parks, sidewalks, public […]
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MyWebGrocer To Power Digital Services For 208 New Stores
MyWebGrocer, a leading provider of digital grocery solutions, is expanding its presence throughout the country, launching new online grocery tools for more than 200 stores in the U.S. Both of the new retailers will be leveraging MyWebGrocer’s best-in-class digital marketing solutions that have cross platform functionality and will augment the retailers’ in-store shopping experience by […]
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Rumba Meats Recipe Of The Month Promotion Targets Digital Audience
As part of the new integrated digital marketing strategy for Rumba meats, Cargill is unveiling the brand’s third annual on-pack promotion titled “Recipe of the Month” or “Receta del Mes.” This year’s national bilingual promotion is designed to reach multicultural consumers who purchase from the meat case and will incorporate both online and in-store elements […]
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Lucky, Save Mart Supermarkets Roll Out Promotion For Halloween
Modesto, Calif.-based Lucky and Save Mart Supermarket Facebook fans are going to “like” the new Candy vs. Candy tournament and sweepstakes, which runs through the end of the month, according to the company. Each week, two well-known candies will face off in order to see who is more likable according to the Lucky and Save […]
Posted in, Industry News, Northeast
FreshDirect.com Groceries Arrive In Philly Market
FreshDirect, a leading online retailer of fresh foods and grocery items, officially launched in Philadelphia on Oct. 1. Serving the New York Metro area for the past decade, FreshDirect’s 10th birthday marks the expansion of the company’s service footprint into the City of Brotherly Love. According to a company news release, Philadelphians now can enjoy […]