Director of Health and Wellness and Business Development, Topco Associates LLC Since upwards of 20,000 shoppers come through some members’ stores each week, Topco members pharmacies will play a vital role in getting the country immunized in a rapid manner.
As everyone in the grocery business is keenly aware, 2020 has presented its own set of unique obstacles throughout the industry. Priorities have been shifted as newfound customer demands were pushed to the forefront as a result of COVID-19.
The Topco cooperative is about member organizations pooling resources, insights and efforts to best serve local communities in which they reside. Never has our collective aggregation been more important than in a year mired in a global pandemic. While the membership has relationships with thousands of suppliers manufacturing an array of items, Topco can add the U.S. government to the supplier list, as members have partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prev
Managing Editor Price-fixing allegations against shelf-stable tuna provider Chicken of the Sea and its chief competitors, Bumble Bee and StarKist, first surfaced in 2015.
The Kroger Co., Hy-Vee, Albertsons and H-E-B are among the food retailers that have settled a class action filed against Chicken of the Sea regarding price-fixing allegations in the shelf-stable tuna category that first surfaced in 2015, according to a published report.
Seafood Source reported that San Diego-based Chicken of the Sea International, a division of Thai Union, was a whistleblower in the long-running scandal, which led to a U.S. Department of Justice investigation that ensnared chief competitors StarKist and Bumble Bee Foods, both of which pleaded guilty to charges of price-fixing and were hit with multimillion-dollar fines. Chicken of the Sea received immunity for helping the DOJ with the case, but it remains open to civil litigation because of its own admitted involvement in the