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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Meijer recently highlighted a collection of specific grocery brands, home goods, assorted gifts and clothing at all supercenters to elevate Hispanic-owned businesses and celebrate the histories, cultures and contributions of their communities. Meijer shoppers could learn more about and purchase a wide variety of featured grocery and general merchandise […]
The Seattle Amazon Fresh store has become the world’s first grocery store to achieve Zero Carbon Certification from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). The 35,000 sq. ft. store opened in 2022, and was built with sustainability in mind. Its many climate-forward features include a natural-refrigerant-based refrigeration system, all-electric kitchen and hot water heating systems, […]
Coca-Cola has announced that by 2030, 25% of its global product volume will be served to consumers in reusable packaging. Reusable packaging options include returnable bottles and refillable cups for fountain dispensers. The company is accelerating its test-learn-scale approach with several reusable packaging pilots in North America, including a new partnership with r.Cup – which […]
Lowe’s and Petco have expanded their pilot program that brings trusted products and services, for both home and pets, into a one-stop shop, growing from 15 Lowe’s stores to 300 locations. Focusing on rural communities across the country, this expansion offers a new convenience to shoppers, providing access to pet supplies and veterinary care along […]
Promaxo, Inc., a medical imaging, robotics, and AI technology company, recently held exhibit booth activities showcasing its compact, in-office MRI system at the recent American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting in Chicago. Guests had the opportunity to see how the Promaxo MRI is shaping the future of pre-operative procedural planning with a fully immersive and […]
Exhibiting at the prestigious National Restaurant Association Show has long been a tradition of Hormel Foods Corporation, an annual opportunity for the Fortune 500 global-branded food company to highlight its extensive product offerings to foodservice operators from around the country. At this year’s show at McCormick Place in Chicago, Hormel Foods featured a full-service restaurant […]
Farm.One has opened its Neighborhood Farm in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The hydroponic indoor vertical farming company is known for its unique and flavorful luxury salad greens, specialty herbs, edible flowers and microgreens serving local chefs and its Farm Membership direct-to-consumer program. Farm.One’s low-volume, high touch, “kitchen table” approach has brought accolades from both local residents […]
Kroger Co. and Gotham Greens, an indoor farming pioneer, are bringing greenhouse-grown produce and fresh, plant-based foods to more customers across the country. Kroger customers can find Gotham Greens’ produce in more than 300 stores today, with plans to expand to nearly 1,000 stores by the end of 2023. The expansion of Gotham Greens’ plant-based […]
Meijer has introduced a new brick-and-mortar store concept, coined Meijer Grocery, that will provide convenience for customers who are looking for a simplified shopping experience, while providing communities easier access to fresher foods. Convenient by design, Meijer Grocery stores will feature parking wrapped around a singular corner entrance to maximize the number of parking spaces […]
Schnuck Markets has opened Schnucks Express in Columbia, MO. Schnucks Express, which features its own entrance but is also conveniently connected to EatWell, A Natural Food Store by Schnucks, offers customers a complete grocery experience and focuses on the many customer favorites that are available at traditional Schnucks stores. Schnucks Express occupies 11,000 sq. ft., […]
Natural Grocers is bringing local hydroponic, organic produce grown just steps away from its customers with the launch of its new hydroponic GardenBox. The pilot program, which takes place at its Green Mountain store in Lakewood, CO, grows an array of organic leafy greens that travel just 82 steps from hydroponic garden to customer. GardenBox […]
WhatsGood, an innovative technology provider for online orders at local farmers markets, recently opened the first in a series of Chicago-based Farm Shops in Lincoln Park. WhatsGood’s Farm Shop is a small footprint grocery store with an array of locally curated products that will provide Chicagoans with in-store shopping and on-demand delivery. “We want customers […]
InnerScope Hearing Technologies, has partnered with Giant Eagle to deploy InnerScope’s automated self-check hearing screening kiosk in Giant Eagle’s supermarkets in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The partnership broadens InnerScope’s reach to help the 48 million Americans who have hearing loss and millions more who have undetected hearing loss due to not having convenient, access to having […]
AMC Entertainment, the largest theatrical exhibitor in the U.S., is expanding its business outside of the traditional theatrical exhibition industry. AMC will sell its popular AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn, which has been available to consumers in theatres for more than a century, through new platforms. AMC will begin selling freshly made AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn […]
Circle K is introducing fully frictionless technology at stores in Arizona as part of its innovation journey. Retrofitted Circle K stores will offer customers a fully autonomous checkout experience using technology developed by Standard AI. Inside the store, a network of cameras is mounted at strategic locations to accurately associate customers with the products they […]
T&T Supermarkets and Cadillac Fairview have announced T&T’s newest location at CF Fairview Mall in Toronto. The new store will occupy over 36,000 sq. ft. of the former Sears space on the ground level, features direct TTC access and can be accessed via the mall’s new corridor. Reflecting consumer research which revealed a strong preference […]
Loop, the global reuse platform, will now move in-store with the world’s largest retailers. Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle and Loop, said, “With the world’s largest retailers bringing Loop to physical brick and mortar locations, we are giving consumers the ability to purchase products in durable, reusable containers, with the convenience of shopping at their […]
thredUP, one of the world’s largest online resale platforms, and denim brand Madewell, have launched ‘A Circular Store’, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn featuring secondhand Madewell pieces sourced from thredUP and designed to educate consumers on the power of making clothes to last. The store is an extension of the online Madewell Forever denim resale experience, and […]
Coca-Cola’s sustainable packaging journey crosses a major milestone with the unveiling of its first-ever beverage bottle made from 100% plant-based plastic, excluding the cap and label, that has been made using technologies that are ready for commercial scale. The prototype bottle comes more than a decade after the company’s PlantBottle™ debuted as the world’s first […]
Pepsi has partnered with Pulpex Limited to develop a prototype for a fully recyclable paper bottle. With Pulpex and a consortium of global consumer goods companies, PepsiCo is working to scale the fully recyclable paper bottle. Ron Khan, PepsiCo V.P., Packaging for Beverages, said, “Versions of the paper bottle concept have been attempted in the […]