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SN Top 10: Walmart, Rite Aid, Giant Eagle top the week’s headlines
Here are the most-read SN stories this week
Supermarket News Staff
January 8, 2024
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In this week’s recap of the Top 10 most popular Supermarket News articles, the top story was More Walmart locations will have poke bars in 2024. Ten poke bars with a new modern look will open at Walmart locations in California over the next five months, and there are plans for three inside Walmart stores in Utah.
Among other top stories:
Rite Aid now banned from using facial recognition by FTC for next five years
Giant Eagle finds a new headquarters
Walgreens slashes dividend, Q1 results beat analyst expectations
Aldi opens new stores in four states
In other news, while restaurants have been selling their products in supermarkets and convenience stores for decades — from frozen White Castle sliders to TGI Fridays mozzarella sticks — recently, foodservice CPG has entered a new social media-conscious era. Recently, Starbucks collaborated with Stanley (the makers of the uber-popular insulated tumbler) to sell a $49.95 “Winter Pink” 40-ounce Starbucks cobranded cup, available exclusively at Target on Jan. 3 to celebrate the new Starbucks winter menu.
More top stories:
Associated Grocers gets leg up on FDA traceability law, brings over 240 supermarkets into compliance
Bernard ‘Bernie’ Francis Kenny, Jr., former CEO of 6 ShopRite stores, dies at 85
Grocery Battlefield 2024: Food retailers put up their mitts in the pricing arena
National Retail Federation’s ‘Big Show’ almost a week away
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