SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Big Y Foods Inc. is growing its convenience store footprint in Connecticut. The supermarket chain opened its 15th and 16th Big Y Express fuel and c-stores, located at 50 Main Street in Somers, Conn., and 241 Hazard Ave. in Enfield, Conn.
The new sites bring the total number of Big Y Express locations in the Nutmeg State to six, reported Convenience Store News sister publication Progressive Grocer.
Jersey City, New Jersey-based Goya Foods is accepting applications for its annual Culinary Arts and Food Science Scholarships.
Quincy, Massachusetts-based Stop & Shop has collected and donated more than $1.7 million for the American Cancer Society to support the fight against breast cancer.
Geissler’s CEO Robert Rybick spoke with Winsight Grocery Business recently about e-commerce, labor, customers’ expectations, as well as Geissler’s upcoming 100th anniversary. (more…)
Springfield, Massachusetts-based Big Y World Class Markets added to the collected donations for Ukraine Humanitarian Relief from customers and employees from March 17-30 through their registers, online orders and myExpress check out.
From butchers to business owners, LaBonne’s Markets in Connecticut is six generations strong. A timeline on its website marks the milestones: George LaBonne had a small market and delivered on his horse and buggy in 1900; his son, George Jr., also a butcher, worked with his father until the 1920s when he, his wife and their nine children moved to Moosup, in eastern Connecticut. George began working for The Fulton Markets in Watertown.
New Jersey-based ShopRite has been named the Most Trusted Grocery Retailer in the Northeast in a new survey conducted in partnership with Newsweek magazine and the consultancy firm, BrandSpark International.
ShopRite is the first grocer on the East Coast to unveil the new QuickCollect GO! pod, where shoppers can pick up their online ShopRite grocery orders from a temperature-controlled outdoor pickup pod.