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SN Top 10: Giant, Target, Trader Joe's top the week's headlines
August 28, 2023
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In this week’s recap of the Top 10 most popular Supermarket News articles, Giant set to close fulfillment center just months after first opening ranked as the week’s top story. A super-sized Giant grocery fulfillment center that opened only a few months ago, is now set to close, along with two other complexes, reports local Washington D.C. news group WTOP. The fulfillment center, which opened in May in Manassas, Va., was originally opened with the goal of completing delivery orders in just three hours, according to Giant.
Other top stories:
Target strengthens private label brand with baby, toddler food items
How Kroger became a leading sushi seller
H-E-B settles a defamation claim with Texas industrial supply firm
5 things top news: States come after Kroger, Albertsons merger
In other news, Trader Joe’s ranks first in the supermarkets category, and fourth overall, in The American Innovation Index (Aii) from Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business and market research firm Rockbridge Associates, which scores and ranks the innovativeness of U.S. companies based on their customers’ experiences. The Aii covers more than 150 companies from more than 20 industries based on experiences captured from 40,000 customer touchpoints. It ranks companies on two types of innovation — customer-focused innovation and social innovation.
More top stores:
Food stamp expansion linked to 15% spike in grocery prices
Shelf-stable still on shaky ground
H-E-B launches new campaign for Texas-only home delivery
Aldi deal will see Walgreens, CVS taking over pharmacy assets
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