LONDON, 2016-Feb-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sainsbury’s is extending its commitment to offer customers great products and services at fair prices, with the phasing out of multi-buy promotions* across its grocery business by August 2016. Customers will now find even better value at Sainsbury’s with lower regular prices. Sainsbury’s is the first UK retailer to…
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AUSTIN, Texas, 2016-Feb-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) today announced that it has signed another five leases for its 365 by Whole Foods Market™ stores, bringing the total to 13 leases now signed. The new 365 by Whole Foods Market stores will be located in Evergreen Park, Illinois; Gainesville, Florida; and Concord,…
Offering 18 beers on tap, self-serve pizza, cauliflower nachos, vegan sushi, cake decorating and more
SEDONA, Ariz., 2016-Feb-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market’s Sedona store, at 1420 West Highway 89A, has expanded its bar and restaurant, Bar 1902, and has increased offerings in the prepared foods and bakery departments. The enhancements are…
MANCHESTER, England, 2016-Feb-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — On your marks, get set . . . Stockport Wheelchair Racing’s Paralympic Games hopeful, Carly Tait, helps store colleagues to get the new-look Heaton Moor Co-op underway following its £475,000 makeover.
The investment in the Co-op food store, located at 206 Heaton Moor Road, has created two new retail…
The Overwaitea Foods in Prince Rupert converted overnight and opened as a Save-On-Foods Friday morning
Prince Rupert, B.C., 2016-Feb-10 — /EPR Retail News/ — The parent company of the Overwaitea Foods store in Prince Rupert has converted the store to a Save-On-Foods, bringing residents of Prince Rupert the unique offering, promotions and pricing of the…
Hanover, PA, 2016-Feb-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Remodeled store now features in-store beer café with 900 varieties of beer
Weis Markets celebrated the Grand Reopening of its remodeled store in the Grandview Plaza on Baltimore Street in Hanover on Friday, February 5.
The former’s Nell’s location which reopened as a Weis Markets’ store in September has been…
LONDON, 2016-Feb-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — London based fashion designer Bella Freud, has collaborated with Sainsbury’s to create two limited edition canvas shopper bags to raise money for Sport Relief.
The Bella Freud bags will be exclusively available in Sainsbury’s stores and online from 15thFebruary 2016.
Known for her iconic Word jumpers, Freud has incorporated her own…
MERKUR to deploy NCR FastLane SelfServ™ Checkout solutions in 45 of its supermarkets in 2016, making it the first supermarket chain in the region to fully embrace self-checkout technology
Augsburg, Germany, 2016-Feb-08 — /EPR Retail News/ — NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, announced today that MERKUR, a leading Austrian supermarket chain…
LAKELAND, Fla., 2016-Feb-08 — /EPR Retail News/ — Today (Feb. 2, 2016)Publix Super Markets Inc. announced it has signed two leases for stores in Virginia. The Bristol store, 54,000 square feet, will be located at the northeast corner of Lee Highway & Clear Creek Road in Washington County and in the greater Richmond area, the Glen…
First-Ever Program in U.S. Offers Convenience, Time Savings
Landover, Md., 2016-Feb-08 — /EPR Retail News/ — Making lives easier for Washington D.C. area residents, Peapod by Giant announced today a first-of-its-kind offering that will allow shoppers to place their orders online and pick them up at one of three Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) stations: Fort…
LONDON, 2016-Feb-04 — /EPR Retail News/ — From spring 2016, dairy cows producing conventional* milk for Waitrose will spend at least 100 days a year outside grazing in fields, the supermarket retailer pledged today.
Waitrose is already one of the only supermarkets to give its dairy cows access to pasture during the grazing season in the summer months.…
Grand Opening Celebration Planned for St. Paul Community
St Paul, MN, 2016-Feb-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market St. Paul invites the St. Paul community to come out Wednesday, March 16 and celebrate the Grand Opening of the new 45,231 square-foot location, 1575 Selby Avenue. The much-anticipated store will provide St. Paul shoppers with…
‘Price Crunch’ is first in a rolling programme of price cuts in 2016
Bradford, England, 2016-Feb-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is to cut the price of 1,072 items with many of the reductions on fresh food, such as fruit and veg.
Morrisons Chief Executive David Potts said:
“We are cutting the prices of products that customers will…
Company’s first Northwest Arkansas store to open March 2
AUSTIN, Texas, 2016-Feb-01 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market’s Fayetteville, Arkansas, store, set to open in March, is creating more than 100 jobs in the community.
The company held a local hiring event this week and will post additional job listings in the coming weeks. Area residents…
Tangerang, Indonesia, 2016-Jan-25 — /EPR Retail News/ — PT Matahari Putra Prima Tbk (MPPA), a multi-format modern retailer in Indonesia, which operates Hypermart, Foodmart and Boston Health & Beauty, today has opened the 115th Hypermart outlets at Kuala Kapuas, Central Borneo with the concept of G7 which has a gross selling area of ± 5,200 m2.
Hypermart…
Arlington, VA, 2016-Jan-22 — /EPR Retail News/ — Today (Jan 20, 2016), the National Grocers Association (NGA), the national trade association representing the independent supermarket industry, praised the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee for its work on the Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access Act, a bill to reauthorize a number of nutrition…
MANCHESTER, UK, 2016-Jan-22 — /EPR Retail News/ — A Conwy-based master butcher has seen the New Year get off to a “sizzling” start after winning a contract to supply more than 160 Co-op food stores across Wales with its award winning sausages and burgers.
Edwards of Conwy anticipates a sales boost of up to 15 percent and…
MANCHESTER, UK, 2016-Jan-22 — /EPR Retail News/ — The Co-op is giving its members a chance to banish the January blues and make a “grand” start to the year with prizes of £1,000 worth of vouchers up for grabs in its food stores UK-wide.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of instant win prizes and vouchers are on…
Manchester, England, 2016-Jan-20 — /EPR Retail News/ — Pupils from Littleton Green Community School, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s Community Safety Officers, Local Councillors and an up-and-coming pop group shared top-billing in Huntington this week at the launch the Co-op’s new food store in Stafford Road.
The Co-op is investing to transform and grow its convenience business and…
MANCHESTER, England, 2016-Jan-20 — /EPR Retail News/ — The Co-op team is kicking off 2016 with the launch of two shiny new stores in Huntington (Staffordshire) and Kirkcaldy (Fife). Although over 300 miles apart, the aim both is simple – offer good food, served by friendly people in a format that is easy to shop.
Stuart Hookins,…
New Store Marks 2nd Whole Foods Market in Milwaukee Area
Wauwatosa, WI, 2016-Jan-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market, the world’s leading natural and organic foods supermarket, opens its new 47,563 square foot store located at 11100 W. Burleigh Street in Wauwatosa, Wednesday, February 24, 2016. The much-anticipated store will provide residents in and around…
CHESHUNT, England, 2016-Jan-18 — /EPR Retail News/ — Tesco is looking to put a smile on the face of thousands of customers as the country endures what is officially known as the most depressing day of the year- Blue Monday.
With millions of people feeling glum due to winter weather, failed New Year’s resolutions or just…
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, 2016-Jan-18 — /EPR Retail News/ — Weis Markets celebrated the Grand Reopening of its remodeled store on Crawford Drive in Bethlehem, Thursday, January 14
The store has all new décor as well as a new organic and natural department. The remodel also includes an expanded floral department and a new gourmet cheese section.
A 30-seat beer…
Stay on top of healthy diet and exercise routines with King Kullen’s help.
Bethpage, NY, 2016-01-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — Follow through with the healthy New Year’s resolutions set in place, thanks to King Kullen’s selection of healthy options for all kinds of recipes and tips on how to stay active and stick to…
ALTOONA, Pa., 2016-1-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — To further their commitment to offer employees a great place to work and a competitive total compensation package, Sheetz, one of America's fastest growing family-owned and operated convenience store chains, will invest more than $15 million to raise the wages of store employees across the company without…
Will host pre-opening events to connect with the community
LOS ANGELES, 2016-1-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market’s first North Orange County location is scheduled to open Wednesday, Feb. 17, in the Village at La Floresta in Brea, California. The 38,000-square-foot store is currently under construction at 3301 Imperial Highway, at the corner of Valencia…
Arlington, VA, 2016-1-11 — /EPR Retail News/ — Food Network star, Duff Goldman will once again emcee the National Grocers Association (NGA) Best Bagger Championship, sponsored by PepsiCo, and held at The NGA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada from February 28 – March 1, 2016.
"2016 will be an exciting year for the NGA Best Bagger…
Legendary sale, which starts Sunday, January 10th, marks 45 years
Keasbey, NJ, 2016-1-8 — /EPR Retail News/ — Start the New Year with a well-stocked kitchen and some help from ShopRite, which makes it easy for customers to buy their favorite foods at discounted prices during the month of January.
ShopRite’s Can Can sale kicks off Sunday, Jan. 10, marking…
BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2016-1-7 — /EPR Retail News/ — Coop konnte sich 2015 in einem schwierigen Umfeld und in rückläufigen Märkten gut behaupten. So hat Coop 2015 zusätzliche Kundinnen und Kunden gewonnen und in den Supermärkten die Kundenfrequenz um 2,4 % gesteigert. Insbesondere im Bereich der Frischprodukte konnten Marktanteile ausgebaut werden. Der Wegfall der Euro-Mindestgrenze und die…
Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 2016-1-7 — /EPR Retail News/ — Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) is SaskBusiness magazine’s 2015 Business of the Year.
In its December 2015 issue, the magazine highlights FCL’s most recent efforts to give back to the communities it serves.
“It was FCL’s renewed and revamped focus on philanthropic projects directly affecting Saskatchewan communities that grabbed…