Downtown Phoenix will soon have its first grocery store, but not quite in time for the newest class of Arizona State University students. ASU students move in starting Aug. 17. The Fry’s grocery store under construction at First and Washington streets is set to open at the end of September, Pam Giannonatti, Kroger corporate [...]
Discount grocery store Aldi is moving forward on bringing its national expansion to metro Phoenix — but it's unclear if any stores would open this year. A city spokeswoman for Buckeye says the store planned there will wait until after an Aldi distribution center opens in neighboring Goodyear. That's expected in 2020. The chain, popular in [...]
Kroger Co. appears to have identified the first city where it’ll use driverless cars to deliver groceries to customers’ homes. Cincinnati-based Kroger, the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, partnered in June with Nuro, the Silicon Valley-based robotics company that developed a self-driving vehicle to deliver goods. Kroger touted that [...]
We are starting to see where German discount grocer Aldi will be opening up shop around the Valley. ABC 15 and theArizona Republic have both published lists of where Aldi could be opening stores, based off permits and building plans filed with the individual cities. Between the time ABC 15 [...]
A union that represents thousands of grocery and retail works launched a national tour Monday in Phoenix to draw attention to Walmart’s wages and the thousands of police calls to its mega stores that are costing local taxpayers each year. The Expose Walmart tour is led by the United Food and Commercial Workers International [...]