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Holiday Savings at Kroger with Retail-owned Brands
This week Kroger shared how it is helping shoppers save
Target Celebrates with Holiday Meals
As the holidays fast approach, Target is leveraging its Retail
Circle K Canada Scores with Hockey Themed Chip Promotion
Late last month Circle K Canada introduced a new marketing
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Trader Joe’s Committed to Changing Racist Branding
Target Commits $10 Million to Advancing Social Justice
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon: Making a Difference in Racial Equity
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Weis Markets Dishes Up Weis By Nature Ice Cream
Pennsylvania-based grocer Weis Markets announced last week the launch of Weis By Nature ice cream, a collection of flavors produced in the retailer’s Sunbury creamery without GMOs or artificial flavors, preservatives, colors, or ingredients. “Our Weis By Nature ice cream offers customers a premium, delicious
Zara Parfum Intense
This is fashion retailer Zara’s top range of Retail-owned Brand fragrances. Spanish agency Lavernia & Cienfuegos designed a bottle with a rounded-off square cross-section, like the basic range, with a smooth and seamless transition in the meeting of the shoulders with the neck. It has heavy
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Waitrose launch UK’s first Retailer-owned Brand Fairtrade coconut oil
UK grocer Waitrose has launched its new Retailer-owned Brand Coconut Oil, which is both organic and Fairtrade, the first of its kind in the UK. The Sonmic Organic and Natural Farmers’ Association (SONFA) has produced this coconut
CVS Launches Gold Emblem Aluminum Refillable Water
Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based drug chain CVS Health is expanding its Gold Emblem Retailer-owned Brand, a new aluminum-bottled water. The launch contributes to CVS’ goal of reducing single-use plastic in private brand packaging by 50% by 2030.
Marks & Spencer to Upcycle Surplus Loaves Into Frozen Garlic Bread
British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is expanding its private brand frozen garlic bread food waste initiative to an additional 125 stores this April. At the end of each day, unsold baguettes and boules – baked in-store
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