There are 9 article(s) tagged grocery stores:

• February 2022

  • Grocers weigh in on why store shelves are bare

    While some officials say the problem is not as serious as news media and social media portray it, empty shelves and food shortages exist and there’s a multiple choice of causes.

    By Christin Yates February 13, 2022

• October 2021

  • Grocery chain opts out of Lakeland spot for now

    “This may resurface at some time in the future, but for now this project as previously outlined will not move forward.” 

    By Michael Waddell October 26, 2021

• September 2021

  • What Binghampton’s Save A Lot experiment taught us about food deserts

    Neighborhood residents in North and South Memphis have endured the loss of grocers in recent years, leaving them with a yet another challenge to endure. 

    By Omer Yusuf September 22, 2021

  • Lakeland BOC approves matters related to New Canada Road project

    A long-awaited realignment of Canada Road in Lakeland is moving closer to reality.

    By Michael Waddell September 03, 2021

• February 2021

  • Michigan grocery business looks to Midtown Memphis location

    Michigan-based Gordon Food Service — which caters both to restaurants and the food-service industry as well as the general public — has stores in Nashville and Knoxville but none yet in Memphis. 

    By Tom Bailey February 24, 2021

• October 2020

  • Efforts to bring grocery to Downtown/South City fail

    A developer has given up — for now — on a two-year effort to recruit a grocery store to serve South City in an otherwise comprehensive, $227 million project to improve the quality of life in the economically distressed neighborhood.

    By Tom Bailey October 18, 2020

• March 2020

  • No shortage of food, but grocers limited by rationing of paper products, bread

    Memphis-area groceries say there’s no shortage of food products, but paper products is another story.

    By Wayne Risher March 27, 2020

• October 2018

  • Another neighborhood grocery, Montesi’s, will close

    Neighborhood grocery Montesi’s announced this week that it will close by the end of October, becoming the second independent grocery in two weeks to shut its doors along the hard-hit Summer Avenue corridor.

    By Tom Bailey October 20, 2018

  • Cash Saver in Cloverleaf will close

    The Cash Saver grocery in the Cloverleaf Center will soon close, its owner confirmed Friday.

    By Tom Bailey October 12, 2018