NEW YORK – An effort to develop a retail industry standard aimed at facilitating charitable giving at the point-of-sale was launched Jan. 12 at the RetailROI (the Retail Orphan Initiative) Super Saturday event here....More
United Supermarkets' Healthy New You Expo was held this past weekend at its Market Street format stores, offering everything from dietitian-led store tours to health screenings in the pharmacy....More
LAKELAND, Fla. — Publix Super Markets has fine-tuned its charitable programs to create better efficiencies, enhance its image with shoppers and reduce labor costs....More
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Food For All, the turnkey charitable-giving organization that has grown its services beyond hunger relief, is getting a new name to reflect that expansion....More
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, New York’s Fairway Market organized multiple relief efforts to help residents in need. The retailer, along with community partners, put together a Thanksgiving meal for over 4,500 storm victims.
NEW YORK — Even as Fairway Market dealt with devastating damage Hurricane Sandy brought to its 52,000-square-foot store in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, company officials made feeding hurricane victims its top priority....More
NEW YORK — Dean Janeway, chief executive officer of Key Food Stores Co-operative, is scheduled to be honored here next month for his efforts to raise awareness and funds benefiting degenerative retinal diseases....More
NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League said it has given the ADL Americanism Award to Jane and Neil Golub of Schenectady, N.Y.-based Price Chopper Supermarkets....More
NEW YORK — Weis Markets was just about to kick off its four-week Believe in Heroes fund-raising campaign to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project charity, when the worst storm in modern memory slammed ashore like a D-Day invasion....More
Nearly half of the respondents to a poll posted on SN’s website last week said they were contributing in some way to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts....More
SUNBURY, Pa. — Weis Markets here is expanding its composting and food donation programs in line with a year-old Environmental Protection Agency initiative aimed at reducing food waste sent by the industry to landfills....More
CINCINNATI — Kroger and Wal-Mart Stores were the only food retailers among 19 companies given a 2012 Excellence in Philanthropy Award from the American Cancer Society....More
CHICAGO — IGA here said it has donated more than $265,000 to the Wounded Warrior Project as a result of its second annual IGA Exclusive Brand national marketing initiative that ran between Memorial Day and Labor Day — more than twice as much as the $120,000 it donated in 2011....More
We were pleasantly surprised when more than 20,000 people showed up right after sun-up on opening day to participate in the state’s largest-ever Zumba class....More
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway announced it will expand its support of America's military veterans by hiring at least 1,000 military veterans in 2013, adding to the 1,300 hired to date in 2012....More
PURCHASE, N.Y. — Stop & Shop and Ahold said that, together with their Our Family Foundation, they were making donations totaling $2.5 million to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — one of the largest donations among several made by the industry in recent days....More
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Hy-Vee stores will honor America’s veterans on Veterans Day with a free breakfast in appreciation of their service to the country....More
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio beat out 320 Texas communities to win the inaugural Healthy at H-E-B Community Challenge — one of several actions to make Texas the healthiest state....More
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Supervalu’s Albertsons, Jewel-Osco and Cub Foods stores will introduce shoppers to deserving puppies, kittens, dogs and cats Nov. 2 and 3, as part of the Iams Home 4 the Holidays pet adoption event....More
QUINCY, Mass -- Stop & Shop, a division of Ahold USA, hosted its third “Healthy Kids Summit” this week at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., home of the New England Patriots, which contributed a player to the event....More
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Instead of the usual canned foods, Price Chopper’s recent “Fill the Fridge” campaign — in partnership with food bank Harvesters and a local news station — encouraged customers here to donate fresh foods to those in the community who need them....More
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