NGA Presents Rudy Dory with the Thomas K. Zaucha Entrepreneurial Excellence Award

Last night, the National Grocers Association (NGA) presented the Thomas K. Zaucha Entrepreneurial Excellence Award to Rudy Dory, Executive Chairman at Newport Avenue Market.

Amazon Is Expanding Its Cashierless Go Model Into a Full-Blown Grocery Store

February 25, 2020 Nick Statt, The Verge

Amazon is getting more serious about its brick-and-mortar retail ambitions with its first-ever Amazon-branded grocery store. The store opens today in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, confirming reports from last year that Amazon was developing a more ambitious version of its cashier-less Go model.

Walmart Loses Another Home-Delivery Provider Amid Amazon Clash

February 25, 2020 Matthew Boyle, Bloomberg

Walmart Inc. is parting ways with grocery-delivery partner Skipcart, the latest defection from its network of logistics companies who often struggle to make ends meet schlepping cola and cantaloupes for the nation’s biggest food retailer.

Local Food: Consumers Demand It, Grocers Need It, Forager and ReposiTrak Partner to Solve It

February 25, 2020 Park City Group and ReposiTrak

Forager, whose platform digitizes and streamlines the local food procurement process for grocers and gives them access to large independent farm networks, so that grocers and farmers can grow the U.S. local food system, announces its partnership with ReposiTrak.

Hess Bros. Announces Wild Twist Partnership

February 25, 2020 Hess Brothers Fruit Company

Hess Brothers Fruit Company, Lancaster, PA, announces a new partnership with Rainier Fruit Company, Selah, WA, to expand their Wild Twist™ apple program.