Study Finds Essex, Hudson, Monmouth, Passaic Counties Hardest Hit

NGA Unveils Creative Choice Awards Winners; ShopRite Is Most Trusted Grocer

Retailers have been not so secretly worried that the current unprecedented two-year run of robust comp store sales will run out of gas sooner rather than later.

New Jersey Food Council Kicks Off 2022 With Annual Meeting

Investing In Leadership Development Pays Off In Dividends

A quick Q&A with Jim McCaffrey III, CEO of McCaffrey’s Food Markets, which operates seven high-volume specialty stores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Jim shares his views about topics relevant to his business and the grocery industry as a whole.

The three-hour virtual meeting educated local manufacturers and distributors on how to gain entry into its 164 stores and/or online through the chain’s e-commerce portal.

Costco, Publix, and Trader Joe's Top Forbes Inaugural Halo 100 List; Aldi Dominates Product Of The Year Awards

Learning To Live With COVID

Food World doesn’t usually re-print obituaries from other sources, but we decided to make an exception for this one memorializing one of the larger-than-life characters from the food industry in recent years, Pat McCarthy, retired from Ocean Spray and namesake of the Academy of Food Marketing at Saint Joseph’s University’s…

BJ’s Wholesale Club is the latest merchant to take more direct control of its distribution. The Westborough, MA-based club operator announced that it would acquire the assets and operations of four perishable distribution centers and the related transportation fleet from Burris Logistics, its temperature-controlled distribution partner for more than 20…

Costco has promoted Ron Vachris to president and chief operating officer, effective February 2. The new position was confirmed in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The title of president had previously been held by Craig Jelinek, who will remain as CEO and a member of the…

As we do each year, Food World and Food Trade News reached out to several retailers in our marketing area, asking them to look ahead at some of the issues facing the industry in the coming year.

Save A Lot announced that its Board of Directors has named Leon Bergmann as the new incoming chief executive officer of the discount supermarket chain. Bergmann will succeed interim CEO Craig Herkert, who took on the role in October of 2021 after his predecessor Kenneth McGrath left the company to…

In a deal between sales agencies, Buffalo, NY-based Affinity Group announced that it has acquired Star Sales & Marketing, the regional firm that has covered the Mid-Atlantic grocery market for more than 20 years.

Member Brown’s Super Stores Makes Key Management Moves

Former Tops Leader Coming Back To Head Newly Merged Retailer

2021 Focus, 2022 Goals

Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace Unveiled Its 10th Supermarket; Wakefern Pilots New AI-Based Frictionless Checkout Technology

Weis Markets Opens 198th Store In Warminster; Kreider Farms Launches Hemp-Fed, Cage-Free Eggs

Giant Food Rewards Associates With #HealthyAtWork Challenge Prize; Schmidt Baking Receives National Accolades For Act of Generosity

The problem has been building since last summer when the Delta version of COVID-19 created a sharp spike in infections.

Congress Has One Way to Go in 2022

Two of the region’s leading wholesalers have recently promote veteran executives to new positions in their organizations. C&S Wholesale Grocers, based in Keene, NH, has promoted Eric Winn to chief operating officer, a newly created position, and United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI), based in Providence, RI, upped Mark Bushway to…

Retirements Impact Merchandising, E-Commerce

Mark Polsky, former grocery executive and part-owner of former independent supermarket retailer Magruder’s, passed away on December 20, 2021, at the age of 74. Born in Silver Spring, MD, Polsky attended Northwood High School and then the University of Maryland, where he graduated with the college’s first computer science/information technology…

The growing Ahold Delhaize USA brand hires Shah from Wakefern as company veterans Burkett and Lupfer take on new roles at the regional chain.

Ringing In the New Year With The Annual 400-Pound Peeps Chick Drop; Industry Predictions For 2022

Thirty-eight days. In that relatively short period, the Carlisle, PA-based retailer did something that many retailers might take two or three years to accomplish.

Furmano Foods Celebrates 100 Years and Four Generations of Family Leadership

Long Island tp Get New Aldi and Amazon Fresh; Allegiance Launches Three-Ingredient Challenge

Relief Not More Regulation In New Jersey

More changes at Wakefern as retailing veteran Kevin McDonnell is promoted to run Price Rite and former Price Rite president Jim Dorey moves to member Inserra Supermarkets as senior VP where he will eventually become president and COO.

Sheetz announced December 6 that Travis Sheetz is advancing  into the role of president  and CEO. Travis Sheetz, the nephew of Sheetz founder Bob Sheetz, was previously the convenience chain’s president and COO, the first COO in the 69-year history of the company. Previous CEO Joe Sheetz will become move…

Supply Chain Issues Continue To Plague Region’s Distributors

The State Of Nutrition In America And Alarming Obesity And Diabetes Rates

Wakefern’s largest member acquires seven stores from one of the co-op’s oldest members.

PFMA Wraps Up its First Season of Shelf Confidence Podcast

Butter Up Contest

From a small cluster of Newark merchants who in 1946 crafted an idea they hoped would help them merely survive, one of the industry’s leading lights has continued its pathway to excellence.