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BRAMPTON, Ontario — Loblaw Cos. is launching a healthy eating campaign on Feb. 22 that will promote new President’s Choice private-label products.
The retailer’s Loblaws, Atlantic Superstore and Real Canadian Superstore banners will take p...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Wegmans hopes to grow its 50,000 member Twitter following with a retweet contest and gift card giveaway.
To be eligible to win one of five $100 Wegmans gift cards, followers must retweet the message: “I’m one of @Wegmans’...
ABINGDON, Va. — K-VA-T Food Stores here, which operates 104 Food City supermarkets, has announced the launch of e-ValuCard Savers, which allows shoppers to electronically download manufacturers coupons from the company’s website to their ValuC...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Harris Teeter will launch a signature sub sandwich this week that has been designed especially for the 211-unit chain by Carolina Hurricane defenseman Jay Harrison.
Harrison’s personal favorite sandwich, dubbed “The Defen...
LAS VEGAS — The primary goal for Supervalu going forward is to grow sales, Bob Miller told a roomful of Supervalu customers here last week.
“There’s only one thing that makes you successful, and that’s growing sales,” said Miller, who is c...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) here, a retailer-owned cooperative serving over 2,500 retail stores, will implement the IntelliSense marketing resource management system from Retail Sense, Tampa, Fla.
The system iden...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A former advertising director for Raley’s pleaded guilty to charges that he defrauded the company of more than $2.5 million.
David John Magana, who worked for Raley’s through September 2010, was charged in a scheme to ...
READING, Pa. — Redner’s Markets here, which operates 42 Warehouse Markets and 17 Quick Shoppes in three states, has doubled its online traffic in the first year of a digital shopper marketing program conducted in partnership with Grocery Shopp...