Will New Federal Regs Force Bodega Owners To Shun Food Stamps?
A little-noticed change in federal law may hurt small neighborhood grocery stores and their low-income customers who use food stamps. …
Retail & FoodService
AmazonFresh Makes East Coast Debut In Brooklyn
AmazonFresh is making its long-rumored expansion into New York City, offering its grocery-delivery service in Brooklyn starting this past Friday. …
Sobeys Launches Better Food Fund Supporting Access To Better Food
Sobeys is proud to unveil the Sobeys Inc. Better Food Fund, which aligns its community investment activities to the Company’s mission of helping Canadians Eat Better, Feel Better and Do Better. …
Rainbow Begins Closing Sales At Two More Stores
Two more Rainbow Foods stores started their going-out-of-business sales this week. Both stores are expected to close Nov. 9 but may close earlier if the shelves are bare. Nearly half of the other 27 Rainbow stores were sold to Supervalu and Lunds/Byerly’s, which renamed their locations. Other stores have already closed. …
Tim Lowe Transforming Lowes Foods
Tim Lowe is at the helm of a company based in Winston-Salem that’s turning grocery shopping into something you’ve never seen or “experienced before.” Lowe (no relation to the company’s founders) is the president of Lowes Foods, the grocery store chain that traces its humble beginnings to Wilkes County in the early 1950s. …