Grocery News Archive - 30-Sep-2007
Grocery stores to offer flu, pneumonia vaccinations (The Springfield News-Leader)For the sixth year, Springfield grocery stores will provide trained health professionals to administer influenza and pneumonia vaccinations at many of their in-store pharmacies. Ramey, Price Cutter, Price Cutter Plus and Smitty's supermarkets will be participating. The influenza vaccination is $30 and the pneumonia vaccination is $40. Immunizations may be paid for with cash, check or Medicare B. ...Closure of Shaw grocery, site of killings, 'to be a major blow' (The Clarion-Ledger)The decision to close Leadway grocery Store here will force shoppers to drive several miles to Cleveland for basic goods, residents say.
British company plans to open grocery stores in area (The Californian)Britain's largest retail chain plans to open 100 "Fresh & Easy" grocery stores in and near Southern California, including seven in Southwest County, a high-stakes foray into a domestic industry with thickening competition.
Cuban grocery and cafeteria in Naples closes its doors (Naples Daily News)It?s the end of an era on 10th Street North. A decades-old Cuban grocery and cafeteria closed this week, and the Naples neighborhood is lamenting the loss of its grocery staples, traditional food and strong, hot coffee. Customers, most of them neighbors and friends, kept owners Salvador and Candida Gonzalez busy ringing up merchandise Thursday and Friday, their last days open.
Dorothy Nicotre of Nick?s Grocery fame dies at 86 (Port Arthur News)Dorothy Nicotre, co-creator of Nick?s Grocery Store in Port Arthur, died Saturday at Renaissance Hospital in Groves. She was 86. Nicotre and her husband Nick opened the mom and pop shop in September of 1959 with help from Joe and sister Mary Nicotre Plagman.
Blood Center to Buy Grocery Building for New Headquarters (KOLR/KSFX Ozarks)The Community Blood Center of the Ozarks is purchasing the Summer Fresh grocery store at Plainview & Campbell. The 54,000 square ft. store will be the main operations center for the CBCO - which currently is leasing 34,000 square feet at the former Consumer's market on Glenstone.
Visalia grocery store robbed (The Fresno Bee)The Grocery Outlet on South Mooney Boulevard in Visalia was held up by a gun-toting robber Thursday night who got away with a bag full of money, Visalia police reported this morning.
Community grocery store gets go-ahead (Lincoln Journal Star)STRATTON ? Thanks in part to a $70,000 loan approved by the Hitchcock County development board, residents of Stratton expect they?ll be able to shop at their own community grocery store later this fall.
Blood Center to Buy Grocery Building for New Headquarters (KOLR/KSFX Ozarks)Before long, a local grocery store will deal in blood instead of dollars. The Summer Fresh on south Campbell was never up for sale. But, today the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks announced it's buying the building.
Cuban grocery and cafeteria in Naples closes its doors (Bonita Daily News)It?s the end of an era on 10th Street North. A decades-old Cuban grocery and cafeteria closed this week, and the Naples neighborhood is lamenting the loss of its grocery staples, traditional food and strong, hot coffee.
