Düsseldorf, 2017-Jun-16 — /EPR Retail News/ — In this edition, we share the 2016 SPAR worldwide results and reflect on what was another hugely successful year for the SPAR Brand with growth of 4.5%. We look at the trends arising from this year’s EuroShop and SPAR Store Development Seminar in Düsseldorf and we share the…
Grocery
Grocer Gold awards: Asda the lowest priced supermarket for the 20th year running
LEEDS, England, 2017-Jun-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — At the Grocer Gold awards on Tuesday evening, Asda was awarded the lowest priced supermarket of the year award – for the 20th year running.
Based on the Grocer 33 price basket survey that consists of 33…
LEXINGTON, Ky., 2017-Jun-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market’s relocated Lexington store, set to open Friday, June 23, at 4059 Finn Way, will feature a pub and an outside fire pit area, as well as expanded selections of local products and innovations across departments. The store will open its doors following an 8:45 a.m.…
Mega-Stores auf Hurricane, Parookaville und Highfield
Koln, Deutschland, 2017-Jun-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Die Musik- und Festival-Fans können sich dieses Jahr gleich dreifach freuen: Denn neben angesagter Musik von den heißesten Bands und DJs ist auch PENNY wieder mit von der Open Air Party-Partie. Das heißt für die mehrere Hunderttausend Fans von Hurricane (23.06. bis…
MIGROS ELGG FEIERT ERÖFFNUNG
Gossau ,Switzerland, 2017-Jun-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Am 22. Juni öffnet die Migros Elgg ihre Türen für die Kundschaft. Die neue Filiale bietet auf knapp 500m2 viel Frische sowie ein breites Sortiment für den Tageseinkauf.
Die Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner aus Elgg und Umgebung dürfen sich freuen: Nach eineinhalb Jahren Bauzeit ist das…
Tesco launches the latest in its ‘Food Love Stories’ adverts to highlight its ongoing campaign to tackle food waste
CHESHUNT, England, 2017-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Tesco has today [Wednesday 14 June] launched the latest in its series of ‘Food Love Stories’ adverts to highlight its ongoing efforts to tackle food waste.
For the first time,…
Sainsbury’s introduces 28 new craft beers and ciders at its Northern Ireland stores
Sainsbury’s Northern Ireland stores welcome 28 new locally made craft beers and ciders
Craft brewery MourneMountains to launch three new products in Sainsbury’s
London, 2017-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sainsbury’s will be introducing 28 new craft beers and ciders to…
LONDON, 2017-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — A further 22 branches will use the IT platform to let local groups know about surplus food
Charities will be offered volunteers and money to buy equipment such as freezers
As Waitrose extends its successful FareShare trial to 25 branches in total this month, it has today (12 June 2017) announced…
Growth plan calls for 25,000 additional jobs
Batavia, Ill., 2017-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — ALDI continues to disrupt the U.S. grocery industry by providing customers with a smarter way to shop. Building on its already-aggressive growth strategy and $1.6 billion program to remodel 1,300 stores by 2020, the grocery retailer just announced a $3.4 billion…
His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew visits world’s first Automated Retail Distribution Centre at Asda's new facility in Warrington
Colleagues work alongside state of the art automated technology at the site, which serves supermarkets across Manchester and Liverpool, along with Cheshire, Lancashire and North Wales
LEEDS, England, 2017-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew,…
Asda and Social Investment Scotland to host the Social Enterprise Supplier Development Academy for the second year
Asda’s only Social Enterprise Supplier Academy returns following huge success last year
Academy will support eight Scottish social enterprises to develop route to market
Social Investment Scotland secures almost £1m in carrier bag charge revenues to…
Brewgooder secures national deal with Asda to stock its Clean Water Lager in stores across the UK and Northern Ireland
LEEDS, England, 2017-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Brewgooder, the world’s first craft beer brewery, is to donate 100% of its profits to clean water projects in developing countries, is celebrating securing a national deal with…
Asda introduces large punnets of strawberries in response to this year's impressive harvest
Asda sees 30% increase in strawberry crop yield versus expected levels due to mild May
Supermarket launches 700g punnet of strawberries to ensure UK growers don’t have to waste surplus berries
A predicted 3.6 million strawberries will be eaten from…
MONTVALE, NJ., 2017-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Five graduating seniors from the Montvale area received $500 scholarship grants from Wegmans Food Markets in a symbolic nod to the company’s annual announcement of recipients for its Employee Scholarship Program, which helps employees along the path to higher education. Since the program began in 1984, more…
Text to give option now available throughout Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give tournament
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., 2017-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ —
Who: Community members
What: This year, the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give has a text to give option to benefit the Simply Give program throughout tournament week. Donations can be made in any denomination…
St. Petersburg, Russia, 2017-Jun-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — Lenta, (LSE, MOEX: LNTA) one of the largest retail chains in Russia, is pleased to announce the opening of its 15h supermarket in St. Petersburg.
The new store is a Lenta medium format supermarket located at 15A Avtovskaya str., St. Petersburg. The store has a total area…
Halle, Belgium, 2017-Jun-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — This year, Colruyt Group started to convert all of its older stores into low-energy stores this year. Over a 12-year period, 234 stores will be converted to energy-efficiency. The wave of conversions is a new step to create stores which do not use fossil fuel and to introduce…
Cape Town, South Africa, 2017-Jun-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Knysna has been ravaged by disastrous fires, leading to evacuation and near-total destruction of the town.
PnP Online has set up a dedicated collection point to help you donate to those affected by the devastating fires in Knysna. All you need to do is shop online,…
Oman, 2017-Jun-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — SPAR has continued its rapid expansion in the Middle East following its entry into the Omani retail market in 2015 in partnership with local business conglomerate Khimji Ramdas.
The recent opening of the latest SPAR store in Oman – a 200m2 SPAR Express store based on the forecourt of the al…
CINCINNATI, 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) announced today (une 8, 2017) it will webcast the annual meeting of shareholders beginning at 11 a.m. (ET) on Thursday, June 22, 2017.
The meeting will be broadcast online at ir.kroger.com. Click on "Events, Presentations & Webcasts" to access the event. An on-demand replay…
Tesco to participate at four major agricultural shows this summer
CHESHUNT, England, 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Tesco is set to celebrate its commitment to working in partnership with British farmers at four major agricultural shows this summer.
The retailer will have a flagship presence at the Royal Cornwall Show, the Royal Highland Show, the Great…
Sainsbury’s to host Open Farm Sunday events at farms across the UK on 11th June
As part of its commitment to supporting British farmers Sainsbury’s sponsors events at farms across the UK including
Visitors encouraged to take part in on-farm family activities
Open Farm Sunday takes place on 11th June
London, 2017-Jun-09 —…
EROSKI invita a sus socios consumidores a celebrar su día grande este fin de semana
La cooperativa EROSKI aglutina a más de un millón de Socios Consumidores en País Vasco, Navarra, La Rioja y Cantabria que están convocados a celebrar este fin de semana sendas Juntas Preparatorias en San Sebastián y Bilbao de cara a…
Fourth year Meijer LPGA Classic opens tournament to collegiate athletes
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — For the fourth consecutive year, the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give opened its tournament to collegiate athletes as sponsor exemptions, representing Meijer and their respective universities in the professional tournament.
This year, three exemptions were awarded to…
MINNEAPOLIS, 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — SUPERVALU INC. (NYSE: SVU) today (Jun. 8, 2017) announced it has successfully completed the refinancing of its existing senior secured term loan credit agreement. The new seven-year senior secured term loan credit agreement provides for an initial term loan facility of $525 million, which was used to refinance…
Middletown, NJ, 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — ShopRite and Dove recognized four exceptional young women, including a teen from Middletown, NJ, as Dove Right On Girls scholarship winners during a ceremony June 6 at the ShopRite of Middletown in Middletown, NJ.
The contest sponsored by Unilever in partnership with ShopRite grants college scholarships to young women who…
BJ's Wholesale Club to open its new location in Summerville, South Carolina on Saturday, June 10
BJ's will host grand opening for the Summerville community on Saturday, June 1
SUMMERVILLE, S.C., 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — BJ's Wholesale Club will celebrate the grand opening of its new location in Summerville, South Carolina on Saturday, June 10.…
San Bernardino, California, 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Over 150 members of the Stater Bros. “Family” of Employees, friends, suppliers and representatives from Operation Community Cares (a local organization that supports our troops) gathered to prepare over 1,000 care packages for local military members currently serving overseas.
The pack event took place on Saturday, June…
Albert Heijn zet de bordjes buiten met serviesspaaractie
Zaandam, Netherlands, 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Niets is fijner dan eten in de buitenlucht. Albert Heijn maakt dat deze zomer nog leuker met zijn nieuwste spaaractie: ‘Sparen voor stijlvol buitenservies’. Klanten kunnen sparen voor bordjes, dipschaaltjes en serveerschalen in trendy kleuren. De spaaractie start maandag 12…
REWE und PENNY testen neuartiges Graspapier für alternative Verpackungen
Getrocknetes Gras ersetzt Holz bei der Produktion von Verpackungsmaterial
Koln, Deutschland, 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Fast vier Jahre tüftelten die Entwickler einer Hennefer Papierfabrik an der Herstellung eines völlig neuartigen Verpackungsmaterials. Das Besondere daran: Das Papier besteht zu 40 Prozent aus sonnengetrocknetem Gras und nur zu…