‘Supermarket Spotlight’ Archives
Birthday Bash for Whole Foods! »
Whole Foods birthday bash! Whole Foods Market turns 30 this September, celebrating three decades of offering the highest quality natural and organic foods and supporting organic agriculture, environmental stewardship and local producers. With a birthday bash at its world headquarters and festivities at all of its stores, Whole Foods [...]
Sam’s Club Savings Event »
American consumers are more value conscious than ever before and are looking for new ways to save. As a result, coupon redemption was up by 29% — the first increase since 1992 — but shoppers still only redeemed less than 1% of available offers.* Sam's Club has a solution by making saving simple with eValues — personalized offers loaded [...]
Save at the pump with Kroger & Shell. »
The Kroger Co., the nation's largest traditional supermarket retailer, is excited to team up with Shell, the no. 1 selling gasoline brand in the U.S., to give customers in Dallas- Fort Worth and surrounding communities the chance to earn fuel savings at the pump. The exclusive alliance provides Kroger shoppers the opportunity to save on fuels [...]
Fight flu at Target. »
Target® will help its guests reach their well-being goals by serving as prevention and treatment headquarters throughout this upcoming cold and flu season. Beginning Sept. 1, 2010, the flu vaccine will be available at more than 1,600 Target Pharmacy and Target Clinic locations nationwide. Continuing its commitment to providing guests [...]
Safeway to offer flue vaccines »
Safeway announced it would offer flu vaccines on a "walk-in" basis at Safeway pharmacies and through scheduled flu vaccine clinics at most other Safeway stores.
ShopRite $2 email discount »
ShopRite is giving its shoppers a financial incentive to provide their emails. The retailer is offering a $2 shopping discount to all those who create an account at shoprite.com by providing their email and other information.
Supermarkets & Starbucks »
The extension of My Starbucks Rewards is part of a larger plan to drive consumers from Starbucks stores to the company’s grocery offerings in supermarkets, and vice versa. It’s unclear how the program might work in a grocery setting. Starbucks said it's too soon to share details. The company plans to demo new grocery products in [...]
Safeway adds yummy kids bakery treats. »
Safeway adds kid's bakery. Safeway has added a “kids” section to its in-store bakeries, according to the Safeway blog. The section is filled with cupcakes and small and large cakes that have children-appealing designs, according to the blog, written by “Bob,” who is described as a 40-year Safeway bakery veteran. As an example [...]
Kroger energy savings can power Memphis for a year! »
Kroger energy savings can power Memphis for a year! Kroger's report includes updates in many areas, including the company's four core priorities: Reducing its carbon footprint, especially by decreasing energy usage; Eliminating and recycling waste including reducing plastic bag use; Lowering the impact of its transportation operations; [...]
Publix goes for Test & Learn »
Publix Super Markets here has signed an agreement to license the Test & Learn Management System, a predictive intelligence tool from Applied Predictive Technologies, Arlington, Va. Publix will use APT’s Test & Learn for Sites software to assist in measuring the impact of new capital allocation, merchandising, marketing, pricing, [...]
