Earth Fare CEO issues ‘clean food’ challenge
Natural organic retailer Earth Fare has introduced a new marketing campaign built around its healthy food standards and challenged competitors to meet them.
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Supervalu posts 3Q loss; retail IDs down 5.7%
Supervalu said ongoing weakness in its retail operations and added expenses in its wholesale business pressured its profitability in the third quarter and caused it to scale back its outlook for the full fiscal year.
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Are ethnic supermarkets the next Sprouts?
Some private investors are betting that ethnic grocery stores could be the next frontier for industry growth, seeking to unleash the same kind of value from them they’d previously found in natural and organic specialty formats.
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Giant testing sustainability shelf tag ratings
Ahold Delhaize’s Giant-Landover division has begun testing a shelf-tag sustainability rating system from HowGood, the companies announced.
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Brewer to depart as Sam’s Club CEO
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Rosalind Brewer, who was midway through the process of repositioning Sam’s Club as a more upscale offering in the Wal-Mart Stores’ arsenal, is departing the company effective Feb. 1, parent company Walmart said.
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BJ’s looks to expand deli/bakery ordering technology
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Westborough, Mass., rolled out online ordering for bakery and deli items in mid-December just in time for the holiday season, and now is looking at additional opportunities to expand its use of technology in those departments.
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Online retailers to take part in SNAP pilot
FreshDirect, Amazon, Safeway, ShopRite, Hy-Vee, Hart’s Local Grocer and Dash’s Market will take part in a two-year pilot that will allow SNAP beneficiaries in certain states to use their benefits when purchasing groceries online.
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Bad weather means good sales for retailers
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As the first week of the new year brought more lousy news for grocery – weakening demand sinking sales in December, and pessimistic forecasts for some of the industry’s biggest stocks – it likely comes as a relief to grocery retailers that a temporary solution was literally falling from the sky by week’s end.
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Gallery: New Market 32 opens in New York
The Golub Corp. has cut the ribbon on its first Market 32 store built from the ground up in New York state.
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Family Dollar taps Mac Naughton as president
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Duncan Mac Naughton, the former U.S. chief merchant at Wal-Mart Stores, has been appointed president and COO of Family Dollar, parent company Dollar Tree said.
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