London ,2016-Jul-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — SSP, a leading operator of food and beverage brands in travel locations worldwide, has scooped two of the top prizes at the prestigious Moodie FAB awards. Organised by leading business-to-business publisher and information provider The Moodie Davitt Report, the awards recognise the best of the food and beverage business…
Consumer Services
ROCHESTER, NY, 2016-Jul-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is alerting consumers to a scam that involves a fraudulent Facebook post bearing the company’s name. The company became aware of the scam during the night on June 29 when a customer questioned the validity of the post.
The Facebook post shows the image of…
CHESHUNT, England, 2016-Jul-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — Tesco has today unveiled a new Fair For Farmers Guarantee on all of its fresh milk, as it continues to build transparent, long-term relationships with its suppliers.
The Fair For Farmers Guarantee explains how every pint of milk sold at Tesco is 100% British and provides customers with information…
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, 2016-Jul-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sigma is sharing e-commerce expertise with delegates and visitors at the Australia/China Complementary Health Expo in Melbourne this week.
More than 400 Chinese delegates will be in attendance, each owning around 200 pharmacies. They are visiting Australia to source locally made goods including vitamins, baby formula, alternate medicine and health…
ALEXANDRIA, VA, 2016-Jun-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — NACS has released the NACS State of the Industry Report of 2015 Data, the convenience and fuel retailing industry’s premier benchmarking tool and most comprehensive collection of data and trends.
Published since 1972, the NACS State of the Industry Report provides valuable information to help industry stakeholders maximize their…
ROCHESTER, NY, 2016-Jun-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — Grilling may be America’s favorite way to cook when it’s warm out, so the chefs at Wegmans Food Markets have come up with a fresh approach to bring even more great grilled meals to the table. The concept - “grill it in your skillet!” Put fresh ingredients in…
AUSTIN, Texas, 2016-Jun-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market customers, team members, supplier sponsors and online donors raised a combined $3.26 million to alleviate global poverty during the company’s 2016 Prosperity Campaign for Whole Planet Foundation this spring.
Every dollar raised will go to support the foundation’s work to fund micro credit for poverty relief…
Starbucks Reserve Tata Nullore Estates is the first single-origin coffee from India available to customers in the U.S., joint-venture extends the reach of Starbucks coffee and expands coffee roasting capabilities
Partnership also unveils joint investment in the Tata STRIVE skills development program
MUMBAI and SEATTLE, 2016-Jun-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — In a meeting at the iconic Starbucks Reserve®…
LONDON, 2016-Jun-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — The John Lewis Partnership has today relaunched the John Lewis and Waitrose Business Account Card to offer customers an enhanced and more convenient service as part of a renewed focus on its B2B operations. This follows the relaunch of John Lewis for Business, the retailer's B2B arm, last year…
Seattle, 2016-Jun-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — Starbucks customers will be the first to hear the new album from Maxwell, a GRAMMY Award-winning artist. On Monday, June 27 at 12 p.m. local time, customers can hear an exclusive preview of the long-awaited "black SUMMERS’ night" (Columbia) – an album seven years in the making – in its entirety in…
Retailer grows Meijer Curbside service in Southeastern Michigan to 14 stores; will offer 33 locations in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois by end of year
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, 2016-Jun-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — With another four Detroit area stores unveiling Meijer Curbside in the past few weeks, Meijer is continuing a big push this summer to…
Change is afoot at Devonport New World, and the store’s owner-operator couldn’t be more excited.
Auckland, New Zealand, 2016-Jun-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — “The most exciting thing,” John Ashton says, “is we’re getting a completely new fresh food aisle, with new bakery and new service counters for deli, seafood and meat, and a new hot food…
STELLA MCCARTNEY DEDICATES NEW STORE WINDOW INSTALLATION IN SUPPORT OF PETA AND BATTERSEA DOGS & CATS HOME #STELLAMCCATNEY
LONDON, 2016-Jun-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — As a longtime advocate of animal rights and welfare, Stella McCartney supports PETA and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home through a new dedicated store window installation. Reflecting the theme of her current…
HAMBURG, 2016-Jun-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire dgroup, a German-based consultancy that delivers end-to-end management consulting services to help companies achieve digital transformation. The acquisition will increase Accenture’s digital consulting capabilities in the German market and strengthen the broad range of services Accenture provides to support digital transformation,…
Announces Store Expansion Plans for Remainder of the Year
Phoenix , 2016-Jun-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — PetSmart Inc. today announced that it has opened 12 net new stores in the U.S. and Canada for the quarter ending May 1, 2016. PetSmart’s continued expansion of its store footprint in key markets in the U.S. and Canada is…
New software delivers PA-DSS 3.1 compliance and improved security
DULUTH, Ga., 2016-Jun-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, announced today that it has released the fastest, most secure version of its transaction processing solution, Authentic, which is the first major payments platform to be compliant with the…
SEATTLE , 2016-Jun-25 — /EPR Retail News/ — Although the sun’s out, it’s not too early to be thinking about flu season. Bartell Drugs is here to protect you with its workplace flu vaccination clinics.
The flu is usually contracted in locations where people are in close contact. For many, this often means the workplace. The Centers…
SPAIN, 2016-Jun-24 — /EPR Retail News/ — Carrefour increases its workforce by taking on 6,000 people to reinforce the peak working periods that occur during the summer. Ninety percent of those taken on will join hypermarket staff and the rest will fill positions in supermarkets and other company subsidiaries such as travel agencies, service stations and financial…
Limited Time Food Truck to Visit Chicago and New York Offering Free IKEA Meatballs and Communal “Pop Up” Seating
CONSHOHOCKEN, PA, 2016-Jun-24 — /EPR Retail News/ — IKEA U.S. announced today that the #TogetherWeEat Food Truck, a limited-time mobile food truck celebrating how food connects people, will hit the road this summer to encourage consumers to…
Seattle-based Wild Ginger Kitchen selected as new store’s ‘Friend of 365’
AUSTIN, Texas, 2016-Jun-24 — /EPR Retail News/ — 365 by Whole Foods Market™, the new evolution of grocery stores from Whole Foods Market, announced today that its third location will open Sept. 14, in Bellevue, Washington. The new store will be located in Bellevue Square (300…
WOONSOCKET, R.I., 2016-Jun-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) today announced that the first CVS Pharmacy locations in Target stores in Colorado are now open. The pharmacies, located in several metropolitan areas, including Denver, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, are being operated through a store-within-a-store format and are branded CVS Pharmacy.
"We're excited to…
WOONSOCKET, R.I., 2016-Jun-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — MinuteClinic, the retail medical clinic of CVS Health, has opened eight new locations inside Target stores in theDallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The clinics located in stores in Allen, Denton, Flower Mound, Frisco, Hurst, Plano and Watauga have been rebranded and converted to MinuteClinic. There are now 50 MinuteClinic locations…
Fair Oaks, CA, 2016-Jun-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — In January, Raley’s underwent a chain wide conversion from Chef Style brand kitchen gadgets to Good Cook kitchen utensils. The distributor, Bradshaw International donated the remaining Chef Style products, which amounted to over 20,000 individual items, ranging from rolling pins and can openers to paring knives and…
St. Louis, MO, 2016-Jun-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — Snyder’s-Lance, Inc. is issuing a voluntary recall for certain code dates of their Lance brand Oyster Crackers. This action is the direct result of a recent recall by the wheat flour supplier, Grain Craft, due to certain lots of flour that may contain low levels of undeclared…
Modesto, Calif., 2016-Jun-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — The following Muscle Milk products are being voluntarily recalled due to premature spoilage:
Item Description
Size
UPC
Muscle Milk – Banana
14 oz.
8-76063-00203
Muscle Milk – Chocolate
14 oz.
8-76063-00201
Muscle Milk – Cookies N Crème
14 oz.
8-76063-00204
Muscle Milk – Strawberry
14 oz.
8-76063-00209
Muscle Milk – Vanilla Crème
14 oz.
8-76063-00202
Muscle Milk – Chocolate
40 oz.
8-76063-00261
Muscle Milk – Vanilla Crème
40 oz.
8-76063-00262
Muscle Milk Pro…
Modesto, Calif., 2016-Jun-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — The following Ajinomoto products are being voluntarily recalled out of an abundance of caution due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Item Description
Pack Size
Best By Date
UPC
C&W Petite Peas
16 oz.
Mar-23-18
Mar-28-18
Mar-29-18
70332001587
C&W Early Harvest
Petite Peas
16 oz.
Mar-17-18
Mar-28-18
Mar-29-18
70332001594
Save Mart Supermarkets has received no reports of health complaints linked to this product. Customers who purchased the…
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich 2016-Jun-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — Kellogg Company is voluntarily recalling certain graham crumbs because they were made using Grain Craft flour which may have contained undeclared allergen peanut residue. To date, there have been no reported illnesses related to the affected product. The affected graham cracker crumbs were used in certain lots…
FORT LEE, Va. 2016-Jun-22 — /EPR Retail News/ — NASCAR driver, 2016 Daytona 500 winner and overall speed demon Denny Hamlin slowed down long enough to visit military members and their families May 25 at the Fort Bragg South Commissary.
Hamlin was in North Carolina ahead of the Memorial Day weekend and the Coca-Cola 600 race at…
Co-op kicks off 100 days of outdoor activities this summer to open flagship store in NoMa, including free weekend of events July 16-17
WASHINGTON, D.C. 2016-Jun-22 — /EPR Retail News/ — In one of the most heated political races in recent history, REI is marking the opening of its D.C. Flagship store this fall by giving residents a way…
REI Outdoor School and the iconic Stanley Hotel have partnered to offer a wide range of outings, classes and events to hotel guests, local residents and visitors to Estes Park
SEATTLE & ESTES PARK, COLO., 2016-Jun-22 — /EPR Retail News/ —With summer activity planning in full gear among adventurers everywhere, leading outdoor educator REI Outdoor School and the iconic…