Progressive Grocer

Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. and the Roundy’s Foundation are once again responding to the growing need to feed the hungry in Wisconsin and Minnesota with donations surpassing $80,000 for food banks and meal programs.

Save-A-Lot food stores are helping change the future of diabetes by pledging $400,000 for the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) “Stop Diabetes” movement for 2010-2012.

According to the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2009 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by Worthington, Ohio-based BIGresearch, holiday shoppers plan to spend slightly less on gift cards, with the average person spending $139.91, compared with $147.33 last year.

Times Supermarkets has been named Retail Marketer of the Year by Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.’s Sterling Silver Premium Meats brand.

Supervalu’s Chicago-based Jewel-Osco subsidiary made good on its pledge to donate 2,400 turkey meals for needy families last week as part of the third annual “Un Dia para Compartir” initiative that will help bring food to the tables of over 600 underprivileged Latino families from six local commu...

Now when consumers seek out Hope Family Wines’ Liberty School label, they’ll get more for their money than a satisfying quaff.

Progressive Grocer, the leading voice of the food retail industry for over 85 years, is now accepting nominations from U.S. supermarket chains and independent grocers for consideration for its signature Store of the Month feature series.

Regional independent Brookshire Grocery Co. was been named one of the Best Companies to Work for in Texas 2010 in a regional awards program designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in the state.

While consumer spending has certainly taken a hit during the recession, the decline has never quite measured up to the claims survey respondents routinely make about draconian, across-the-board cuts in their own expenditures.

Consumers can toast to suppertime savings with a multi-partner retail promotion offering coupons on “all the fixin’s,” including America’s favorite vegetable, Idaho potatoes.

Grocery chains King Soopers and Safeway offered signing bonuses consisting of gift cards worth up to $1,000 to union workers in Colorado and Wyoming as part of contract proposals.

Store brands are growing fast. This is one of the key findings in the Madison, Wis.-based International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association’s (IDDBA) newest research, “The New Value Shopper.”

With the holidays nearly here, Campbell Soup Co. has redesigned its CampbellsKitchen.com Web site to help consumers widen their cooking repertoires while still saving money.

Tops Markets, LLC plans to open its first new store since it reverted to being to a locally operated company.