The California Grocers Association said it’s against legislation passed Monday in the State Senate that would effectively ban assisted checkout systems in supermarkets, and has urged Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to veto the bill.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. (A&P), and Pepperidge Farm have launched a month-long joint coupon program across 175 A&P, Pathmark, and Waldbaums supermarkets across the New York metro area and Connecticut using in-store TOMRA recycling machines as a coupon delivery platform.
Regional independent Save Mart Supermarkets has renewed its subscription to its existing deal management software service, which it uses to streamline how it receives, negotiates, reconciles, and archives trade promotions with its vendors through a secure, Web-based environment.
Continued soft economic conditions and unemployment levels within its various operating areas drove a decrease in third-quarter sales for regional wholesaler Unified Grocers, Inc.
