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Williamsville-based Tops Markets and Schenectady-based Price Chopper/Market 32 have completed a merger, enabling the combined companies to maintain separate brands with the benefits of scale and efficiencies.

The 124,000-square-foot facility will service a greater number of customers in Philadelphia and, for the first time in its history, in southern New Jersey.

Ontario, Calif.-based Costco is upping its global cuisine offerings with the new Tandoori Chicken Bowls with Green Chutney and Cool Yogurt Sauce from FiveStar Gourmet Foods, producers of the Simply Fresh Kitchen brand.

Misfits Market — a direct-to-consumer online grocery platform focusing on sustainability, affordability and accessibility — has launched in California, delivering to every zip code in the state.

Produce executives can have a better sense of what online grocery shopping will be like in 2022 after an October survey shows some stabilization at higher levels than in pre-pandemic times.

It’s not for nothing that we refer to different social media — LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter in this case — as platforms.

Change has been the only constant since the spring of 2020, and we take a look at how retailers have adjusted and plan to adjust going into 2022.

Steve Williams, vice president of produce and floral at Southeastern Grocers Inc., won Produce Marketing Association’s Retail Merchant Innovation Award.

The appetite for celebrating is strong, so meeting consumers where they are may require a different approach to selling during this holiday period.

We’re all about the holidays here at The Packer and PMG. As foodies in the biz, we get excited about the (arguably) biggest food holiday of the year in late November, followed by other food-centric gatherings.