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With the help of its retail grocery partners, Cargill’s “More to Share” program will help local charity groups address the strain of having enough food to meet the highest level of food support demand since the Great Depression.

Online grocer FreshDirect has kicked off a “Thanksgiving Feast Giveaway,” which enables one in every 100 customers ordering a complete chef-prepared Thanksgiving dinner to win the holiday meal at no charge.

Cub Foods, a chain of warehouse-style grocery stores, is eliminating its popular cross-promotion with Bloomington, Minn.-based Holiday Cos. Nov. 28, according to a published report.

Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. has introduced its new Rewards Card, and the Fuelperks! benefit that goes along with it, to 11 more stores, enabling customers at Copps and Pick ’n Save stores in nine more cities to save money on gas for every $50 they spend grocery shopping.

Those interested in attending the annual Howl-O-Scream evening event at Busch Garden’s Tampa, Fla., park can have the daylights frightened out of them for less -- if they buy their tickets at Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.

Grocery stores usually turn to circulars and in-store advertising to promote weekly shopping deals, but D’Agostino -- a family-owned, New York grocery chain -- is taking it one step further with a campaign called “Managers Gone Wild!”

In a bid to steam things up in the fresh produce aisle this fall and keep shoppers away from the frozen foods cases, Mann Packing Co. is offering its annual on-pack offer for the Mann’s steam-in-bag vegetable line. As of Oct. 5, shoppers will save 55 cents when they buy two packages of Mann’s Broccoli & Carrots, Broccoli & Cauliflower or Vegetable Medley.

Football season is off and running, and in the countdown to its culminating event, the Super Bowl -- scheduled to take place Feb. 7, 2010, in Miami’s Land Shark Stadium -- a spate of football-related promotions has charged into the grocery aisle. The Beef Checkoff has teamed up once more with center store stalwarts Kraft A.1 and Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser on an August/September tailgating promotion including money-saving in-store tearpad coupons featuring steak and burger recipes, and a September Sutter Home promotion offering $1 off beef when shoppers buy the wine.