Retail & FoodService

Performance Foodservice announced the launch of two key digital communications initiatives – a redesigned website (www.PerformanceFoodservice.com) to provide customers with an improved online experience and a new food blog called FOODCENTRIC (www.Foodcentric.com) written by and for those passionate about food. …

Meijer will open two new 190,000-square-foot supercenters in Northern Indiana on Thursday, Meijer Co-Chairman Hank Meijer announced today. The Portage and Warsaw stores will create more than 500 new jobs and provide local residents high quality products, fresh produce and a full-service pharmacy that puts family health care first. …

The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001. Twelve years later, though, Webvan is rising from the dead — in the form of an online grocery business called AmazonFresh. …

Delhaize Group, the Belgian international food retailer, announced that Jean-Pierre Hansen is resigning from the Board of Directors, effective June 30, 2013. …

After opening a dozen stores across South Florida within a few months and hosting several hiring events, Okey-Dokey Grocery Markets is now planning to close down its stores, according to a local commercial real estate broker and a trade publication. …