By Mark Hamstra Source: Supermarket News Both Save Mart and Whole Foods Market have agreed to settle multimillion dollar, class action lawsuits concerning their retirement benefit plans in recent days. Save Mart agreed to pay about $20.5 million to a group of former non-union employees who had claimed that the [...]
Source: And Now You Know California-based grocer The Save Mart Companies is making waves across the industry with a substantial price reduction campaign, cutting costs on over 4,000 essential items in Save Mart and Lucky stores throughout California and Nevada. In an era of economic uncertainty and skyrocketing costs, this [...]
By Bridget Goldschmidt Source: Progressive Grocer A strike that would have involved 10,000-plus grocery workers at The Save Mart Companies' Save Mart, Lucky and FoodMaxx supermarkets in Northern and Central California was avoided when union and management negotiators came to a tentative contract agreement this morning at 1:30 a.m. PST. [...]
By Catherine Douglas Moran Source: Grocery Dive The Save Mart Companies is exiting the distribution business and partnering with C&S Wholesale Grocers, a company spokesperson wrote in an email to Grocery Dive. The regional grocer, which runs the Save Mart, Lucky and FoodMaxx banners, is closing two distribution centers in [...]
Source: Texas Real Food Safeway and Save Mart are two prominent grocery store chains in the United States, each with its own unique offerings and customer base. Both stores strive to provide quality products and competitive prices to meet the diverse needs of shoppers. Walmart typically offers lower prices than [...]
By Dominique Williams Source: Microsoft Start Though Save Mart Companies is under new ownership, the company and its new owner, the Jim Pattison Group, say nothing will change regarding the way stores operate, where it is headquartered or who is in leadership. The sale of Save Mart was effective Tuesday [...]
By Dominique Williams Source: Yahoo! Finance Save Mart Companies has gone through its second ownership changes in two years, and this time, it’s grown further from its family-owned roots. The Jim Pattison Group — based in Canada — purchased Save Mart effective Tuesday, said President Ryan Barrington-Foote. The sale includes [...]
By Sam Silverstein Source: Grocery Dive When Tamara Pattison joined The Save Mart Companies last fall as the regional grocery chain’s first chief digital officer, one of her top priorities was to step up the retailer’s ability to leverage the growing amount of data it brings in. Like other retailers, [...]
By Vidhi Choudhary Source: Modern Retail The Save Mart Companies, which operates Save Mart Supermarkets, Lucky Supermarkets and FoodMaxx grocery chains, is taking steps to grow its digital and retail media business. In doing so, Save Mart is building out its retail media network in partnership with grocery tech vendor [...]
By Eric Burkett Source: Courthouse News Service A federal judge declined to dismiss a class action brought by a California supermarket chain's workers who claim the company misrepresented medical benefits offered to non-union employees. U.S. District Judge William Orrick ruled Friday that the four plaintiffs — Jose Luna, Katherine Baker, [...]