Month: January 2014

NuVal LLC announced that three of its retail partners – Tops Friendly Markets, United Supermarkets, LLC, and Scolari’s Food & Drug Company — are the latest to sign contract extensions guaranteeing their stores will continue carrying the NuVal Nutritional Scoring System. This move assures customers that they can continue to count on the unique, easy-to-use program they have depended on to find the most nutritious foods on supermarket shelves. …

Grocery deliverer Instacart, which arrived in Chicago in September, has expanded to the North Shore. …

The Kroger Co. announced Jay Cummins has been named president of the Smith's Food and Drug Stores division and Joe Fey has been named president of Kroger's Mid-Atlantic division. …

The Tewksbury-based chain, owned by the Demoulas family, will offer a discount of 4 percent on customers’ entire orders through Dec. 27. The discount does not apply to alcoholic beverages, milk, postage stamps, gift cards, cigarettes, lottery tickets, or trash bags mandated by a municipality. …