Member News
Upside, Price Chopper/Market 32 Increase Shopper Benefits
Upside, a digital marketplace for brick-and-mortar grocers, has established a long-term agreement and an enhanced tech integration with Northeast grocery store chain Price Chopper/Market32. This move comes after their initial partnership resulted in 500,000 incremental transactions from 50,000 customers. “Thanks to Upside, we’ve made significant progress in attracting new customers and encouraging our existing ones to […]
Community News
What are the most popular grocery chains in Connecticut?
As Big Y World Class Market pounces on vacant Amazon Fresh storefronts in Westport and Brookfield, new data shows the Massachusetts chain is outclassing many competitors across Connecticut on one major criterion — repeat visits by regulars. Big Y led Connecticut in December for the average frequency at which individual shoppers returned to stores during the month, […]
Legislative Update
CT lawmakers seeking new options to work around budget cap
Despite the bipartisan praise lavished on Connecticut’s budget constraints, officials never have fully embraced them, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years outside the “fiscal guardrails” — drawing from short-term sources. But these temporary wells are running dry faster than many anticipated, setting the stage for a budget showdown this May, with funds […]
CFA NEWS
Study: If You Let People Buy Beer at Grocery Stores, the Liquor Stores Still Survive
Repealing “blue laws” and allowing Sunday alcohol sales has much less of a negative effect than doomsayers predicted. That’s according to a new research paper by Cristina Connolly and Alyssa McDonnell of the University of Connecticut, Marcello Graziano of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Sandro Steinbach of North Dakota State University. The […]