Retail & FoodService

Associated Food Stores, LLC announced today it has signed an agreement with N.H.- based C&S Wholesaler Grocers, Inc. to be its primary supplier.  C&S will provide warehouse, transportation and procurement services.  Associated Food Stores licenses the names Associated, Compare, Met, Met Fresh and Metropolitan City Markets to over 350 independently owned and operated supermarkets. …

Since the Great Recession, slower business from small companies employing fewer than seven people has been the biggest source of pressure on Sam's Club's results. Yet rather than diminish its exposure to its business members, Sam’s Club is redoubling its efforts to cater to them. …

In the second phase of a transition announced in January of 2014, Todd R. Schnuck, 55, is now chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Schnuck Markets, Inc. Anthony T. Hucker, 48, who joined Schnucks in September 2013, is now president and chief operating officer (COO) and the first non-family member to hold this office in the St. Louis-based food and pharmacy company. …

More men are grocery shopping for themselves or their families now than in the past, but they’re not happy about it, reports The NPD Group, a leading global information company. Men now represent 41 percent of all primary grocery shoppers, but they make up more than their fair share of people who say grocery shopping is a chore, according to NPD’s recently released report, The New Grocery Shopper. …

As part of its Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative (NEBPI), the beef checkoff hosted a “Meat Your Beef” channel influencer immersion event at the Gibbet Hill Cattle Company in Groton, Mass., on Nov. 6 for the chef instructors and educators at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Cambridge, Mass. …