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Two grocery industry figures have been recognized for their efforts to promote diversity in the workplace and, by extension, the wider community.
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Supervalu’s Chicago-based Jewel-Osco subsidiary will present over $2 million in cash and food donations to five major food banks and scores of food pantries in Illinois and northwest Indiana as part of its “Hunger Relief Grant Program.”
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Walmart and the Walmart Foundation yesterday rolled out “Walmart Gives Back,” a holiday giving program that will contribute $32 million in monetary and in-kind donations to charities across the nation.
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Two of Roundy’s Pick ’n Save locations in McFarland and DeForest, Wis., are among the first grocery stores in the state to achieve “Green Grocer” certification from the Wisconsin Grocers Association (WGA), which is spearheading a pilot program to help grocery stores in achieve energy savings, sustainability and environmental standards.
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Sprouts Farmers Market, a Phoenix-based natural and organic foods retailer, yesterday joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership and voluntarily committed to reducing refrigerant emissions in an effort to fight climate change and protect the earth’s ozone layer.
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Weis Markets’ month-long “Fight Hunger” food drive generated $210,000 in customer food and monetary donations to local food banks and pantries throughout its five-state marketing area, which will be complemented by $200,000 in corporate donations to eight regional food banks.
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Canadian grocer Metro, Inc. will become the first supermarket chain in that country to offer reusable produce bags in all of its 484 stores in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
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For C&S Wholesale Grocers’ seventh consecutive year of participating in Make a Difference Day, which this year occurred on Saturday, Oct. 24, over 500 of the company’s employees volunteered their time in communities across the country.
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As a way to celebrate its 25th anniversary of doing business, BJ’s Wholesale Club is asking the communities in which it operates clubs to amass 25 tons of groceries to help feed area needy families.
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United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), a Providence, R.I.-based national distributor of natural, organic and specialty foods, said yesterday that it plans to lease a 590,000-square-foot distribution center in Lancaster, Texas.
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To ensure that its employees and customers throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota have the information they need to stay healthy during peak influenza season, Roundy’s Supermarkets is reaching out with a company- and community-wide educational effort that provides relevant information about the seasonal flu and H1N1 viruses, prevention methods, and available vaccination options.
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Community-based independent Ring Bros. Marketplace in South Dennis, Mass., and barbecue grill and accessory supplier Breakaway Gas, also based in South Dennis, raised over $700 for Ezra H. Baker Elementary School during a fundraiser held in late August.
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Winn-Dixie and PGA TOUR have joined forces on a new Nationwide Tour event, the “Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open,” which will debut in the Jacksonville, Fla., area next October to benefit local charities.
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C&K Market’s Ray’s Food Place Stores and organic foods supplier Organic Valley have teamed up to create a new shopper rewards program that gives customers EcoUnit credits that can be redeemed to support local stewardship projects like tree planting, river restoration, removal of invasive species and watershed cleanup.
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The Natural Products Association (NPA), the oldest and largest trade association for the natural products industry, has appointed John F. Gay its executive director and CEO.
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Natural and organic foods retailer Sprouts Farmers Market will debut its ninth Dallas location, in Cedar Hill, Oct. 23. The new store will join existing locations in Coppell, Dallas, Flower Mound, Frisco, Murphy, Plano, Richardson, and Southlake.
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Store tours give insights into not only what's happening in the grocery industry, but also what's happening in the communities they serve.
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Ninety World War II veterans from the northwest Arkansas region visited the World War II Memorial in Washington this past weekend as part of a trip Tyson Foods, Inc. helped fund and organize with the support of contributions by the Walmart Foundation.
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As an early backer of the new Children’s Museum of the Upstate in Greenville, S.C., Bi-Lo Charities not only donated $500,000 toward the project, but has also set up a miniature version of a Bi-Lo store at the site, enabling children to learn how to be smart shoppers while playing in the scaled-down supermarket.
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Retailers and marketers shared insights on serving the needs of the growing Latino market.
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Loblaw Cos., Ltd. and Canadian biogas developer and operator StormFisher Biogas have agreed to convert all of the organic trimmings produced at Loblaw corporate grocery stores in southwestern Ontario into renewable energy at a new StormFisher renewable-energy facility in London, Ontario.
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Big Y World Class Markets has donated $275,482 in equipment to nearly 2,000 local schools in its New England marketing area.
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Under a joint initiative with the Department of Health, select Winn-Dixie pharmacies in Florida, Louisiana and Alabama are filling prescriptions of the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and/or Relenza at little or no charge for patients who have inadequate or no prescription insurance coverage.
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Progressive Grocer will recognize the greenest grocers and top women in the industry Nov. 2, 2009, at the publication’s Corporate Social Responsibility Awards, to be held during the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix.
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On Thursday, Oct. 22, the finalists from each of the 18-store D’Agostino Supermarkets chain, which operates 15 stores in Manhattan, and three in New York’s Westchester County, will vie for the title of Metro NY’s Best Bagger.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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