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Grocery, Supermarket and Retail Food Industry News

Retailers

Rhode Island Issues State-Mandated Social Distancing Rules

In effort to enforce social distancing standards, grocery stores will have to limit the number of customers to 20% of the store’s stated fire capacity.

Retailers

23 Lucky’s Stores Sold in Bankruptcy Auction

Aldi, Publix, Southeastern Grocers gain multiple Florida stores and Dollar General gains a distribution center as estate nets $29 million.

Fresh Food

Pandemic Pantry Building Boosts Bakery Sales by 44%

By Anne-Marie Roerink on Mar. 26, 2020

The week of March 15 marked a turning point for the grocery industry, which saw sales across the store rise a whopping 62.5%.

Retailers

Grocery Outlet Eyes a 'Reset to Value'

By Jon Springer on Mar. 25, 2020

The abrupt change in consumer behavior and the prospect of a recession that has come along with the pandemic points to encouraging longer-term trends at the extreme food discounter.

Fresh Food

Fresh Produce Sales Up 33.9% Amid Growing Number of COVID-19 Cases

By Anne-Marie Roerink on Mar. 25, 2020

Vegetables were up nearly 41%, while fruits increased 27% for the week ending March 15, 2020.

Retailers

Village Prevails in Auction for Fairway’s Crown Jewels; Amazon Gets 2 Leases

By Jon Springer on Mar. 25, 2020

In a bankruptcy court-led auction, the ShopRite operator buys five stores and a distribution center, outbidding Bogopa, while Key Food takes a Brooklyn store and Amazon eyes remodeling 2 New Jersey units.

Retailers

Green Zebra's Lisa Sedlar Talks COVID-19 Panic Buying, Protecting Workers and ‘Mind-Blowing’ Experiences

By Meg Major on Mar. 25, 2020

WGB's March Endcap guest is concerned that grocery workers’ designation as essential service providers is at risk due to lack of masks, sanitizers and arbitrary communication.

Retailers

Albertsons Turns to Service Peers to Fill 30,000 Jobs

By Jon Springer on Mar. 24, 2020

Hard-hit companies such as Hilton, BJ's Restaurants and Regal Cinemas are referring their furloughed workers to Albertsons jobs.

Industry Partners

2020 National Restaurant Association Show Is Canceled

By WGB Staff on Mar. 24, 2020

Coronavirus concerns led to the cancellation of the annual event.

Industry Partners

Increasingly Muddy Waters Between Retail, Foodservice

By Kat Martin on Mar. 24, 2020

In survival mode, some restaurants are turning to grocery, but is the turn just a stopgap measure or a new reality?

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