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  • A Product Launch for Lotus Bakeries’ Biscoff Spread

    A Product Launch for Lotus Bakeries’ Biscoff Spread

    Lotus Bakeries announced, March 8, that their Biscoff Spread product will be available in the United States market. Lotus Bakeries, a family-owned European company, is widely known in Europe for producing the popular Biscoff cookies (cookies with coffee). The popularity of the Biscoff cookies reached the United States when Delta Airlines served them to its…

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  • Wal-Mart Encourages Consumers to Buy American-made Goods

    Wal-Mart Encourages Consumers to Buy American-made Goods

    In a recent gathering, Wal-Mart’s CEO, Mike Duke, announced that most of the products Wal-Mart is selling are made in the United States. This quite surprised people in the grocery chain industry, as it has been widely known that Wal-Mart’s top priority is in offering consumers the lowest prices possible, even if it means selling…

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  • Wal-Mart Converts Two Former Albertson Stores in Texas

    Wal-Mart Converts Two Former Albertson Stores in Texas

    Wal-Mart Stores has announced its plans to convert two former Albertson stores in Texas. The former Albertson stores are located in Frisco and Flower Mound. According to local news reports in Texas, these stores will be converted to Wal-Mart neighborhood markets and will follow the design and concept of other Wal-Mart neighborhood markets. According to…

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  • Stater Brothers Increases Its Profits Despite Stiff Competition

    Stater Brothers Increases Its Profits Despite Stiff Competition

    In a recent report, Stater Brothers Holdings Inc. stated that it was able to increase its profits for the second quarter, despite stiff competition from Latino-owned grocery stores and supermarkets. The company’s second quarter profit rose 46.6 percent, this even with competitor stores changing their strategy to displaying high-volume groceries. Nationwide, Stater Brothers currently has…

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  • Smith’s Releases its Own Coupon Policy

    Smith’s Releases its Own Coupon Policy

    Smith’s Food and Drug recently released its coupon policy to assist customers in using coupons when shopping at the store. A lot of grocery stores have been releasing their own coupon policies so that customers are clearly informed about what is and what is not allowed when using coupons to pay for purchases from the…

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  • Tackling the Bulletproof Bullies

    Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart Explore Bullying in their Latest Film Multinational manufacturing corporation Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) collaborated with another multinational corporation and the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, to debut its most recent film which aired June 11 on NBC. The film, “Field of Vision,” delves into school bullying and an all-or-nothing- choice…

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  • The Repercussions of Extreme Couponing

    The Repercussions of Extreme Couponing

    Reality television program ‘Extreme Couponing’ has unintentionally created some repercussions due to its popularity and the increasing incidents of coupon frauds that has been happening since the show starting airing. For those who are unfamiliar with the term extreme couponing, it is the act of deploying and combining coupons strategically in order to pay little…

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  • Walmart Temporarily Bans Extreme Couponer

    Walmart Temporarily Bans Extreme Couponer

    In Nampa, Idaho, grocery chain Wal-Mart banned an extreme couponer from shopping at its stores. April Cuevas, extreme couponer, was banned from grocery shopping at Wal-Mart due to an altercation that occurred between her and an employee, a store manager specifically, at the grocery chain. This altercation led to Cuevas being barred from shopping at…

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