Retail & FoodService

Roche Bros. announces the opening of Brothers Marketplace in Weston, Mass. A next generation neighborhood market, Brothers Marketplace focuses heavily on fresh foods and regional artisan products while also offering all the favorites needed for a full grocery shopping experience. Brothers Marketplace offers the community a fresh new shopping experience to eat, drink and shop local. The new store located in Weston Center at 41 Center St, will open on May 18, 2014. …

Built to provide stationary cold storage, Carrier Transicold’s new, engineless Vector™ 8100 all-electric trailer refrigeration unit consumes less electricity while delivering up to 4 percent higher capacity than the model it succeeds. Carrier Transicold helps improve global transport and shipping of temperature-controlled cargoes with a complete line of equipment for refrigerated trucks, trailers and containers, and is a part of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). …

Food Lion unveiled its new chain-wide strategy: "Easy, Fresh and Affordable…You Can Count on Food Lion Every Day!" The announcement launches a multi-year initiative to make shopping easier for Food Lion customers at the company's more than 1,100 stores, while keeping the low prices customers expect. …

Allegiance Retail Services, LLC, announced the Grand Opening of Farmtastic Market, located in Whippany, Morris County, New Jersey. …

Meijer has opened two new 190,000-square-foot supercenters outside of Indianapolis, Meijer Co-Chairman Doug Meijer announced. The Plainfield and Whitestown stores are creating more than 540 new jobs and provide local residents with a great option for one-stop shopping, fresh produce and a full-service pharmacy that puts family health care first. …