Superfresh Growers had a busy year of giving back in 2022. The team gave 117 hours of company-sponsored volunteer time back to the community.

At the beginning of 2021, Superfresh Growers announced that it would be adding company-sponsored volunteer hours as an employee benefit and a way to give back to the community.

In addition to announcing this act of service, it also announced its new observance of Martin Luther King Junior Day as a company-paid holiday. “Just as our employees are encouraged to give back at work-sponsored events, we also want to ensure our teammates and their families

Albertsons Cos. Inc. launched Sincerely Health, a digital health and wellness platform now accessible on 16 of its banners’ grocery app and websites, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Shaw’s, Jewel-Osco, Acme and Tom Thumb.

Backed by science, Sincerely Health is designed to help improve lives by connecting, educating, encouraging and rewarding customers on their health and wellness journey so they can make informed choices regarding food, physical activity, sleep and mindfulness.

Sincerely Health is a platform built in collaboration with healthcare providers, insurance companies and

International leaders in fresh produce, Vanguard International and RK Growers have entered into a strategic partnership to continue to grow their businesses globally.

RK Growers will operate as Vanguard’s procurement office for all European produced products, and Vanguard will provide RK Growers marketing, sales and distribution into Asia.

With headquarters in Italy, RKG imports, researches, selects, grows and markets new cultivar varieties exclusively in the European market. RKG supplies its products to the leading markets and supermarket chains globally. RKG’s product scope includes fresh

Stop & Shop is expanded availability of Flashfood, a digital marketplace that significantly reduces food waste at the retail level by connecting consumers with discounted food nearing its best by date, across 21 of its Rhode Island stores and 34 of its Massachusetts stores.

Since partnering with Stop & Shop in 2021, nearly 20,000 shoppers across the Northeast have used Flashfood to save money on groceries while also diverting over 168,000 pounds of food from landfills. Now with additional stores offering Flashfood, sales through the app will further decrease food waste throughout the

Fyffes and its winter melon business Sol Group have organized community medical brigades to reach 15 communities surrounding its cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew melon farms. The program provided four medical clinics, five doctors, four nurses and five ambulances in the regions of Choluteca and El Paraiso, where its farms are located. The program objective is to ensure that employees, their families and the local community can have access to otherwise inadequate and hard to reach healthcare during the summer off-season.

Launched in July 2022, the community medical brigades consisted of

The Kroger Co. opened a new spoke facility in south Florida. This facility opening means customers can access Kroger's selection of fresh items delivered directly to their door by Kroger associates.

"We are thrilled to connect more Floridians to the Kroger Delivery shopping experience, which brings thousands of digital coupons, valuable fuel points and the freshest products directly to customers' doors," said Bill Bennett, Kroger vice president and head of E-commerce. "Whether they are using the Kroger app or browsing our weekly ad at Kroger.com, customers can enjoy fresh, high-quality