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1 week ago | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
Karen Proud, the new president and adjudicator of the Grocery Sector Code of Conduct took the stage at the Grocery & Specialty Food West trade show in Vancouver this week, to talk about what’s next for the code and to squash misinformation surrounding it. “One of the biggest questions I get is, ‘So when is the code going to be operational?
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1 week ago | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
While hundreds of products are on display at the Canadian Federation of Independents Grocers' Grocery & Specialty Food West show in Vancouver this week, 10 items stood out from the crowd. A jury comprised of members of the media voted on this year's most innovative products from the event's New Product Showcase, which included a slew of new beverages to home meal replacement solutions, sweet treats and protein-packed snacks.
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3 weeks ago | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
The community of Kleinburg, in Vaughan, Ont., is home to a new Longo’s. Located at 6530 Major MacKenzie Drive, the much-anticipated store was unveiled on Thursday morning (April 3), closely following the opening of the grocer’s 41st location, also in Vaughan, at the end of February.
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1 month ago | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
What would you say is the biggest challenge facing leaders today? Listen, it’s acknowledging that you need to adapt continuously to the new pace of change in the world—whether it’s geopolitics, whether it’s technology or whether it’s politics. It’s accepting the fast pace of things and making sure everybody’s in the mindset that what we know today will not necessarily be true tomorrow and we will have to course correct and change.
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1 month ago | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
Longo’s has expanded its store count with the opening of a new location in Vaughan, Ont., just north of Toronto. Located in a big box development at 67 Colossus Drive, the new store’s neighbours include a Costco warehouse and a Giant Tiger. “Vaughan is an incredible community that Longo’s has been a part of ever since we opened our original Woodbridge store back in 1991,” Jessie Longo, the company’s business relationship manager told guests at the store’s grand opening on Thursday (Feb.
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2 months ago | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
From an afterschool gig as a bag boy at Overwaitea Foods to president of a growing grocery operation that today employs some 30,000 team members, Darrell Jones has achieved much in his 49 years as a grocer. On Tuesday night (Jan. 29), business partners, suppliers, team members, family and friends turned up at Vancouver’s Westin Bayshore hotel to celebrate Jones as he winds up his distinguished career.
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2 months ago | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
From an afterschool gig as a bag boy at Overwaitea Foods to president of a growing grocery operation that today employs some 30,000 team members, Darrell Jones has achieved much in his 49 years as a grocer. On Tuesday night (Jan. 29), business partners, suppliers, team members, family and friends turned up at Vancouver’s Westin Bayshore hotel to celebrate Jones as he winds up his distinguished career.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
“First-party data is very powerful, we rely on it quite a bit, especially as we’re leaning in and making big investments, because there’s a lot more certainty in what you’re seeing, but it’s hard to rely on it alone,” said Acerra.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
Change is a constant in grocery retail and that makes it challenging to prepare for what’s ahead. “When we think about retail as a whole, obviously there’s lots of shifts taking place with new business models, new channels, different consumer expectations seemingly every day, making it harder to map the future of retail,” Michelle Evans, Euromonitor International’s global lead of retail and digital consumer insights told attendees at NRF 2025, Retail’s Big Show in New York this week.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
canadiangrocer.com | Shellee Fitzgerald
How did you get your start in the business? When I graduated in finance, I was working for Christie Brown as a sales rep. I loved the job and they asked me to join full time and I thought, you know what, I’ve got to go do my CPA because if I don’t do it now, I’ll never do it. I ended up doing my CPA [while at PricewaterhouseCoopers] and, long story short, I joined Kraft—later became president of Kraft—and then Kraft bought Christie Brown and people I had worked with when I was 22 were still there.
