Shellfish Spa
              Retailers are doing everything they can to make shopping trips an experience for customers. With the threat of online shopping, supermarket chains are trying out new ideas to increase traffic in the stores. One example of how stores are doing this is with a new display called the “Shellfish Spa”. Tom Olsen, president of Lobster Life Systems is the creator of ‘Shellfish Spa’, a device which preserves live product such as clams, oysters, mussels, and etc. “the container bathes shellfish in a continuous stream of saltwater and maintains...
TO ALL STOP & SHOP MEAT MANAGERS, SECOND (2ND) PERSONS & MEAT CUTTERS UPDATE ON EMPLOYEES VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVE PROGRAM: FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARBITRATORS AWARD CONCERNING THE INTRODUCTION OF PRE-PACKAGED MEAT AND THE PROTECTIVE LANGUAGE CONTAINED IN OUR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, THE COMPANY IS NOW IMPLEMENTING THE EMPLOYEE VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR THOSE ELIGIBLE MEAT DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 27, 2017 AND RUNNING FOR APPROXIMATELY A THREE MONTH PERIOD. COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE HANDING OUT COPIES OF THE VSIP PROGRAM TO ELIGIBLE MEAT DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES AFTER JANUARY 1, 2018. THOSE INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING ARE URGED TO FILL OUT THE NECESSARY PAPER...
Supermarkets as Pillars
            Local Supermarkets are always a vital part of every community. Most supermarkets partake in many charitable avenues to help communities in need. When natural disasters cause devastation, it is often supermarkets that serve as a safe haven for community members. In the wake of the hurricanes that have been devastating the south over the past few months, Mike Eardley wrote an article for the Supermarket News which emphasized that supermarkets are “pillars of communities”. When communities experience disaster local supermarkets...
The ‘Fiercely Loyal’ Customer
          With all the changes happening in the supermarket industry, it is easy to be swept up in the new technologies breaching the market. Walmart is dramatically increasing the investment in the online grocery department of their chains. In addition, Amazon’s entry into the supermarket industry with its purchase of Whole Foods has some stores worried about upgrading their online presence.               However, Reuters/Ipsos conducted a poll that surveyed nearly 8,600 adults from Aug. 12 to Sept. 1 of 2017,...