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Harps Launches Mobile Rewards Program With Birdzi, Helping the Grocer Build Loyalty, Personalization and Digital Engagement
March 9, 2021 GMT
ISELIN, N.J. (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 9, 2021
Birdzi, a provider of personalized digital customer engagement solutions for grocery retailers, today announced a successful mobile rewards app deployment with Harps Food Stores. Harps Rewards was launched in Feb. 2021, following a six-month implementation, and enables the grocer to offer shoppers digital savings, personalization and enhanced shopping experiences, both in store and online.
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Faced with a new audience of online shoppers amid COVID-19, the rewards program gives Harps a platform to digitally engage shoppers and maintain loyalty amongst new and existing customers. With Harps Rewards, Birdzi arms Harps with a plethora of tools to engage customers, including personalized ad flyers,
Tennessee AG Sues Supermarket Chain for Flooding State with Opioids February 8, 2021
Tennessee’s attorney general on Thursday sued Food City over claims that the supermarket chain’s pharmacies intentionally profited from the opioid epidemic by unlawfully selling tens of millions of prescription opioids in the state.
Attorney General Herbert Slatery filed the 208-page complaint in Knox County Circuit Court, saying more than 23% of the opioids the company’s Tennessee pharmacies sold between 2006 and 2014 were from one Knoxville store.
According to the lawsuit, for that one store, Food City bought more 30-milligram oxycodone from its main distributor from October 2011 to January 2012 than was bought by all of the pharmacies in 38 entire states and the Washington, D.C. Additionally, the company sold large amounts of opioids to people from other countries and far-off U.S. states as multiple overdoses happened in stores or their parking lots, t
Numerous allegations against Food City were made in the state s 208-page complaint. Author: WCYB, WBIR Staff Updated: 7:25 PM EST February 4, 2021
TENNESSEE, USA Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III has sued Food City, accusing the company of unlawfully selling tens of millions of prescription opioids.
In a statement to our NBC affiliate WCYB, Food City said it vehemently disagrees with the allegations contained in the lawsuit and will vigorously defend itself through the litigation process.
Slatery sued Food City Supermarkets, LLC and K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. in Knox County Circuit Court.
In the press release from Slatery s office, The State contends that Food City violated the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, violated the Tennessee’s public nuisance statute at three Knoxville-area stores, and created a common law public nuisance by endangering the health of Tennesseans and interfering with the commercial marketplace.
Tennessee AG sues Food City supermarkets over opioids
February 4, 2021 GMT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee’s attorney general on Thursday sued Food City over claims that the supermarket chain’s pharmacies intentionally profited from the opioid epidemic by unlawfully selling tens of millions of prescription opioids in the state.
Attorney General Herbert Slatery filed the 208-page complaint in Knox County Circuit Court, saying more than 23% of the opioids the company’s Tennessee pharmacies sold between 2006 and 2014 were from one Knoxville store.
According to the lawsuit, for that one store, Food City bought more 30-milligram oxycodone from its main distributor from October 2011 to January 2012 than was bought by all of the pharmacies in 38 entire states and the Washington, D.C. Additionally, the company sold large amounts of opioids to people from other countries and far-off U.S. states as multiple overdoses happened in stores or their parking lots, the lawsuit states.
Supplies of holiday hams and some pork products are being stretched as Covid-19 precautions challenge meatpackers’ workforces.
As a result, some meat suppliers are placing limits on how much pork supermarkets can order, grocers said, leading to less variety and fewer pork promotions ahead of Christmas.
“You may not find every variety and flavor,” said Dan Glei, executive vice president of merchandising and marketing at K-VA-T Food Stores Inc., which operates as Food City.
Covid-19 cases have surged around the country at the same time that the U.S. pork industry is usually busiest. Farmers truck greater numbers of hogs to slaughterhouses ahead of the U.S. holiday season and China’s Lunar New Year holiday in late January, typically a peak season for meat consumption in the world’s biggest pork market. U.S. farmers and meatpackers call it the “fall hog run.”