New Channels News In Brief… Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed into law a state sales tax holiday, which will be Aug. 15 and 16. The law is similar to...
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Hannaford is opening a smaller store, a 20,000-s.f. unit (less than half the size of a traditional Hannaford) in North Berwick, Maine, on Aug. 8. Some of the store’s...
As more convenience stores consider expanding their fresh produce offering in stores, a new resource has been published to help operators examine what they need to be...
Boosting employee wages to $15 an hour at limited-service restaurants could lead to an estimated 4.3 percent increase in prices at those restaurants, according to a...
Rite Aid’s same-store sales increased 2.4 percent for the four-week period ended July 25 compared to the prior-year period. July front-end same-store sales...
Supermarket News In Brief… Wegmans plans to open a 125,000-s.f. Massachusetts store at the Natick Mall in Natick by spring 2017. It will be the Rochester, New York...
Convenience Store News In Brief… NightFood Holdings Inc. of Tarrytown, New Jersey, a company dedicated to delivering better nighttime snack solutions to shoppers, has...
Food Service News In Brief… A 3 percent drop in independent restaurant unit counts compared to year ago brought the total U.S. restaurant count down by 1 percent to...