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A major part of the 97,000-square-foot Harrisburg, Pa., Giant Super Food Store’s energy savings and reduced carbon footprint comes from the cutting-edge refrigeration systems from Conyers, Ga.-based Hill PHOENIX.
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Supervalu, Inc. has sold its Payson Store Fixtures division to Boston-based DGS Retail Inc. for an undisclosed amount, according to Quazar Capital Corp., the Minneapolis-based investment banking firm that represented Payson on the deal.
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Sunbury, Pa.-based regional independent Weis Markets’ Hanover, Pa., store has earned silver certification from the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, a voluntary Environmental Protection Agency alliance with food retailers to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate change.
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C.H. Robinson Worldwide, one of the largest global logistics and transportation providers, has earned a spot on Fortune’s 2010 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list, and additionally ranked first in the “Trucking, Transportation and Logistics” category.
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Food Lion, LLC banners and sister Delhaize Group division Bottom Dollar Food have joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of Energy Star Leaders, a select group of organizations that have improved energy efficiency across all of their sites.
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As the mainstream market warms to green, Progressive Grocer salutes grocery leaders that heeded the call and paved a sustainable path for the industry to follow.
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Food retailers are literally raising the bar in terms of what's being offered at their food bars, and the requisite equipment for this accelerated trend is keeping pace.
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Lund Food Holdings, Inc. plans to deploy a scan-based trading initiative to streamline its operations and boost sales.
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Hy-Vee, Inc. will begin construction on a 64,000-square-foot replacement store this spring in Fairfield, Iowa, marking the company’s second store built in accordance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification standards.
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Murfin's Markets uses a "carwash"-like sanitizing system for bumper-to-bumper sanitizing of its shopping carts.
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The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) recently named Save Mart Supermarkets an honoree of the 2009 Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) for its efforts in waste reduction and sustainability.
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Sprouts Farmers Market’s Centennial, Colo., store, slated to open Feb. 26, will be the Phoenix-based grocer’s seventh in the state, joining others in Aurora, Boulder, Castle Rock, Fort Collins, Parker, and Westminster.
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Janitors who clean northern California Safeway supermarkets this weekend voted to ratify a tentative collective bargaining agreement with Safeway janitorial services contractors ABM, Crystal, Premier, and AMS.
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Regional independent Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) said last week that construction will begin this month on FRESH by Brookshire’s, a new food concept store in South Tyler, Texas, that will emphasize freshly prepared food in a more interactive environment than that of traditional grocery stores.
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Sprouts Farmers Market’s Round Rock, Texas store yesterday became the first in the state to earn the EPA’s GreenChill Gold-Level Store Award for green refrigeration technology.
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The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) this week hosted the first-ever joint Supply Chain Conference under the banner of the GMA-FMI Trading Partner Alliance.
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Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.’s new Covington, La., store, which bows today, is special for several reasons: Not only is the 55,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art supermarket the Jacksonville, Fla.-based grocer’s first newly constructed location since 2004.
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Whole Foods Market new store in San Jose, Calif. Will be its third powered with on-site fuel cell power, joining the Dedham, Mass., and Glastonbury, Conn. Locations already using the green power technology.
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United Natural Foods, Inc.’s (UNFI) Chesterfield, N.H. distribution center has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR rating for its superior energy efficiency and environmental protection.
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Regional independent grocer The Markets (www.themarketsllc.com), based in Bellingham, Wash., has installed an electric car charging station in an effort to serve the more than 1,000 electric vehicles in the state, as well as encourage electric-car ownership among consumers.
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Regional independent Wegmans Food Markets’ fuel cell project launched yesterday as a fleet of 50 hydrogen fuel cell-powered pallet trucks were mobilized in the produce facility at its Retail Service Center (RSC) in Pottsville, Pa.
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Approximately 100 Pennsylvania grocery stores may soon be offering self-service wine-vending kiosks in a new program developed in partnership with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
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Natural and organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market has deployed a new sustainable disinfection system for in the commissary serving its 32 Southwest region stores.
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Sunburst Chemicals’ Solid Green 28 Solid Biological Floor Cleaner was developed to be a mild-but-effective floor cleaner that contains surfactants to suspend grease and oils, and eliminate slippery floors and foul odors, while a combination of biological agents continue to break down grease and oil even after the floor has been mopped.
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Dole Fresh Fruit Co. plans to use Orlando, Fla.-based Intelligent Global Pooling Systems’ all-plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags in the shipping of some of its products within North America.
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 Tyson’s Cooking in the Deli
Tyson Foods has whipped up a line of complete meal entrées for supermarket deli departments across the United States.
 Hip to the Dip
French’s Mustard invites Americans of all ages to dip to their heart with the iconic brand’s new Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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