NEW YORK — Product of the Year USA, the largest consumer-voted award for product innovation, has announced the 41 winners of the 2021 Product of the Year Awards. Chosen by 40,000 American shoppers in a national survey conducted by Kantar, a global leader in consumer research, each of the winning products has been awarded as the
NEW YORK — PLMA said that Brad Studer, senior director of Our Brands for Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, will be one of several leading retailers and industry executives to speak, when PLMA unveils its first major online event for store brands in the U.S., Feb. 1-5. Studer’s topic will be Our Brands:
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. – Dollar General Corp. today unveiled its newest retail store concept, popshelf, which aims “to engage customers with a fun, affordable and stress-free shopping experience.” The first two popshelf stores will open this fall near Nashville, Tenn., each about 9,000 square feet in size and offering a continually refreshed assortment that includes seasonal
CAMP HILL, Pa. – Rite Aid announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bartell Drugs for $95 million. Founded in 1890, family-owned Bartell Drugs generates over $550 million in revenue and fills approximately 5.5 million prescriptions annually across its 67 stores in Seattle and throughout King, Snohomish and Pierce
CARLISLE, Pa. — GIANT Co. last month introduced a new brand platform, For Today’s Table, based on the idea of bringing families together at mealtime, which is “now more important than ever,” said GIANT president Nicholas Bertram. “For almost 100 years, we have been entrusted to help families connect over food, at their table, no
RICHMOND, Texas — H-E-B has expanded its footprint within this community, having opened its newest location, the long-awaited H-E-B Spring Green Market, last month. The new 101,000-square-foot store offers residents a world-class, spacious shopping destination with a pledge to deliver unsurpassed freshness and quality at affordable prices. The new Spring Green Market is the first
CINCINNATI – The Kroger Co. said fiscal first-quarter sales rose 19.1% to $42 billion. Digital sales increased 92% in the quarter ended May 23, and same-store sales, excluding fuel, were up 19%, the company said Thursday. Operating profit in the quarter was $1.3 billion. Kroger said it spent more than $830 million in the quarter
NEW YORK — Mass retailers are devising blueprints for how to reopen for business as states rescind shelter-in-place orders issued to slow the transmission of the new coronavirus. While much of the work is geared toward specifying steps stores can take to protect the health of consumers and employees, there’s also a recognition that the
KEASEBY, N.J. – Wakefern Food Corp. has launched a new measure to enhance the safety of its customers and associates during the coronavirus outbreak. Beginning this week, stores will implement a temperature monitoring program. As part of the initiative, stores will use Non-contact Forehead Infrared Thermometers to take the temperature of associates and vendors as
LAKELAND, Fla. — Publix Super Market is bringing its new-concept GreenWise Market to Tampa. The retailer also plans to remodel an older version of the format in the city, converting it into a traditional Publix store during a planned remodel scheduled to begin next month. “We look forward to sharing our new-concept GreenWise Market with
SALISBURY, N.C. — Food Lion on Wednesday will officially unveil 92 remodeled stores in five communities in South Carolina and one in North Carolina. The company said it made a $158 million capital investment in the stores earlier this year, which included remodeling the stores and hiring 2,000 additional associates. The aim is to provide
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Given the significant increase in the number of teens using e-cigarettes, CVS Health announced on Monday that it and its charitable foundations will award a total of more than $10 million in 2019 to support youth smoking and e-cigarette prevention strategies and education delivered in classrooms, by clinicians and in communities across the United