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 California this fall, which will impact 527 workers, according to WARN notices.
- The Save Mart Companies said it recently sold Smart Refrigerated Transport, the company’s Lathrop, California-based distributor, to C&S, saying the sale was part of “a larger supply chain optimization strategy designed to provide customers with more competitive pricing, enhanced product assortment, and an overall improved shopping experience.”