Loblaw has announced that 10 new eCascadia electric trucks are headed to Vancouver. “This achievement aligns perfectly with our commitment to environmental sustainability and represents a substantial step forward in our ongoing efforts to reduce our carbon footprint,” Wayne Scott, senior director of transport maintenance, said in a LinkedIn post. The news came after the
Metro’s Quebec discount banner Super C is in expansion mode. It recently opened four stores and is set to open a fifth store on November 30. The fifth store will mark the banner’s 106th location in Quebec. Super C opened its 102nd store on April 27, 2023, in the Limbour district of the Gatineau region.
Galen Weston is stepping aside from day-to-day operations of Loblaw Companies Ltd. in a senior leadership shuffle that will see a European retail executive take over as president and CEO. Canada’s largest grocer and drugstore chain said Tuesday the chief executive of Denmark’s leading grocery retailer Salling Group A/S, Per Bank, will join the company
It’s coming to a dinner plate near you: seafood that wasn’t fished from the ocean but was designed in a lab. And Toronto startup New School Foods is betting its faux salmon will make a splash in the market for plant-based alternatives. “What we’re really recreating here is the sensory experience, the texture of salmon,”
Empire became a co-owner of Scene+ in June 2022, along with Scotiabank and Cineplex and launched in Western and Atlantic Canada earlier this year. “The Western Canada launch of Scene+ brought us some exciting firsts, including the introduction of a loyalty program in our Discount banner FreshCo. We’re thrilled with how customers in the West and Atlantic
Walmart Canada will employ an artificial intelligence (AI) tech solution aimed at keeping shelves stocked and improving the customer and associate experience. The technology uses cameras, pointed directly at shelves, to detect when a product is out-of-stock or running low. When a product is out of stock, the tech triggers a notification that is sent to
Now open in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, the newest location of grocery chain XMarket is 6,000 square feet filled with a wide assortment of vegan products with an in-store food hall concept coming this fall. Canada-based company PlantX just opened what is believed to be the largest vegan grocery store in the world. PlantX took over
As a powerful alternative to help with the land crisis, vertical farms are no less helpful than traditional farms regarding functionality. Although the idea itself dates back to ancient times when the people of Babylon built “The Hanging Gardens of Babylon” in 605-562 BC, the modern concept was first proposed by Dickson Despommier, a Public and Environmental Health professor at Columbia
Twenty-five years ago, by an Act of Parlament, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) was created by amalgamating all federally mandated food inspection and animal and plant health activities into one organization. By doing so, Canada gave both consumers and the food industry a single point of contact: And it remains unique in the world for
