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Save A Lot, Yellow Banana to reopen six remodeled Chicago stores

- Retail
Save A Lot, one of the nation’s leading discount grocery chains, and Yellow Banana, a retail grocery platform that owns and operates Save A Lot locations, are announcing the reopening of six remodeled stores in different neighborhoods across Chicago.

Chicago Spotlight: Something for everyone

- Produce Blueprints
Chicago, the Windy City, is located on Lake Michigan and is known for such landmarks as the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), Wrigley Field, deep dish pizza, hot dogs—and, increasingly, jalapeño peppers.

Fresh Thyme Market partners on local retail access program

- Retail
Fresh Thyme Market, a community-focused grocer, is honored to be the first grocery partner of Naturally Chicago's Locally Made Retail Access Program.

Instacart partnership to provide healthy grocery stipend for food insecure in Chicago

- General News
Wellness West, a coalition of Chicago's health and safety-net institutions, and Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, today announced a new partnership that leverages the scale and convenience of Instacart to help food-insecurity and chronically ill individuals on the West Side of Chicago.

Chicago looks into city-owned grocery

- Analysis
The city of Chicago is exploring opening a municipal grocery store to remedy the problem of food deserts.

Yellow Banana to invest $26.5MM in Chicago Save A Lot stores

- Retail
Yellow Banana, the owner and operator of eight Save A Lot locations in the Chicagoland area, today announced the March 31, 2023 closing of a $26.5 million investment into grocery stores on the South and West Sides of Chicago.

Walmart to close half of its Chicago stores

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The company said in a statement the stores, collectively, have not been profitable in the 17 years they've operated and after losing "tens of millions" of dollars a year, annual losses shot up sharply.

Fresh Street launches online grocery platform focused on affordable convenience

- Retail
By focusing solely on the online grocery shopper, the platform promises users no substitutions, no hidden or extra fees, and a focused assortment that enables users to avoid an in-person trip to the grocery store.

Online grocer Farmstead expands to Chicago

- General News
Farmstead announced the opening of its waitlist Jan 14 and the list filled within days.

Performance Food Group Company to acquire Reinhart Foodservice

- General News
Performance Food Group believes the addition of Reinhart and its complementary strengths will expand Performance Foodservice’s broadline presence, improve its network efficiency and help it achieve our long-term growth goals.