Giant Food to open Friday in Broomall, PA
Giant Food’s long-awaited store will open in Broomall, PA this Friday. The 74,000 square foot store will replace the current Springfield Road location. Two hundred people will fill full and part-time positions, an increase of 50 employees from the closing store....Lidl to open two Long Island stores next week
Lidl announced yesterday that it plans to open its first two Long Island stores on December 11. The locations will be in Center Moriches – in a former Waldbaum’s, and in West Babylon – in a converted Best Market. Stores in Plainview, Huntington, East...Giant Food parent piloting small-format, cashierless store in Quincy, MA
Ahold Delhaize, the parent company of Giant Food, announced that it is piloting a small-format store concept at its office in Quincy, MA called “lunchbox” that uses friction-less checkout technology. Similar to Amazon Go stores, lunchbox enables customers...Albertsons closes Hatfield fulfillment center
Acme’s parent company announced that it closed a 56,186 square foot fulfillment center in Hatfield, PA that was used by Plated, a meal kit company it purchased two years ago. The closure by Albertsons affects 56 people, according to a state filing. Albertsons...Amazon prepping for first non-Whole Foods grocery store
Amazon revealed that it is planning to open a non-Whole Foods grocery store next year in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The 35,000 square foot store will occupy a space vacated by Toys R Us. It will include standard checkout lanes, unlike its...Weis Markets opens store in Bedminster, PA
Weis Markets opened last week at the corner of Routes 113 and 313 in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, PA. The 61,000 square foot store is the company’s eighth location in the Delaware Valley, and overall Weis Markets operates about 200 supermarkets in...Ahold Delhaize pilots checkout-free store similar to Amazon Go
Ahold Delhaize, the Netherlands-based grocer that operates the Giant Food, Giant/Martin’s, Stop & Shop, Food Lion and Hannaford banners in the U.S., said last month that it is testing a checkout-free “NanoStore” – similar to Amazon Go – in its home country. The...Small NJ chain to switch from Foodtown to The Fresh Grocer
It was reported last week that Nicholas Markets, a four-store grocery retailer operating under the Foodtown banner, is leaving the Allegiance Retail Services cooperative to join Wakefern. Upon their conversion, the stores will be rebranded as The Fresh Grocer....Sprouts to build smaller, simpler stores
Sprouts Farmers Markets announced last week that it is dialing back its store plans for 2020 and will build smaller and simpler stores in the future. Earlier this year – prior to new CEO Jack Sinclair’s start in late June – the company said it...By David Goodman
