Month: March 2012

Food Lion associates and customers raised a record $4.5 million during their annual Shop&Care for Easter Seals, representing a 22 percent increase over last year. The grocer set a goal this year of $4 million for Easter Seals. Since Food Lion first initiated the Shop&Care program 21 years ago, the company has raised more than $33 million for Easter Seals. …

Wegmans, which operates its 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania and four other East Coast states, shows that a business can generously train its workforce and profit handsomely. Privately owned by the Wegman family, the chain employs 42,000 people – 20 times the number who work for Facebook – and defies quarterly-driven Wall Street wisdom. …

Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration, a leading provider of commercial refrigeration products and components today launched a solar energy system to integrate directly with its microchannel air-cooled condenser product. The patent-pending SunSource™ Energy System is designed to help grocery retailers and other commercial refrigeration users reduce energy consumption during peak demand hours throughout the day resulting in greater energy savings. …

Stop & Shop and ShopRite employees in New Jersey and New York, represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1262 in Clifton, have voted overwhelmingly to accept a new labor agreement, the union said Tuesday.

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Once stigmatized as a second-rate alternative, store brands are taking on their name-brand counterparts with splashier packaging and a growing number of organic, all-natural and higher-end products. …