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TheVoice of the Nebraska Grocery Industry July/August 2014 THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: PLATINUM PLATINUMSILVERPLATINUMSILVERPLATINUMGOLDSILVERGOLDSILVERBRONZEGOLDBRONZEGOLDBRONZE BRONZE PLATINUM PLATINUMSILVERPLATINUM SILVERPLATINUMGOLDSILVER GOLDBRONZESILVERGOLD BRONZEGOLDBRONZE BRONZE Affiliated Foods Anheuser-Busch Advantage Sales & Marketing Midwest Companies, Inc. Arctic Glacier Premium Ice Altria Client Services Coca Cola Bottling Bunzl Packaging SHAZAM Customized Retail Solutions Associated Wholesale Crystal Farms Grocers Commonwealth Altadis USA Farner-Bocken Diageo Bimbo Bakeries USA Dr. Pepper/Snapple Company ConAgra Foods Fareway Stores, Inc. Dean Foods/Land O’ Frito Lay, Inc. Kemps Dairy Lakes Milk General Mills Lorillard Tobacco Nebraska Lottery Mondelez International Hiland Dairy Foods Pan-O-Gold Baking Company SpartanNash Kraft Foods R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Wells Enterprises, Inc. Pepsi Cola Bottling Sparboe Farms Wildhorse Distributing The Brenmar Company Retail Data Systems The Mark Anthony Brand Inc. TheVoice of the Nebraska Grocery Industry ACSQuarterPgAd.qxp_NGIA 2/28/14 12:09 PM Page 1 coupon redemption in the digital age seamless redemption for digital, electronic & paper coupons Proudly Offered through Nebraska Grocery Industry Association For more information call ACS at 1-800-260-4642. July/August 2014 Chairman of the Board: Lonnie Eggers CONTENTS No Frills Supermarkets Vice Chairman of the Board: Mike Brtek Lou’s Thriftyway features & departments advertisers Treasurer: Mogens Knudsen 3 Nebraska Food News... 11 Advantage Sales Plum Creek Market Place OBC Affiliated Foods Midwest People... Places... Things 27 Altria Secretary: Pete Clarke IFC American Coupon Services 5 Nebraska Grocers Meet with Crete Foodmart 12 Anheuser-Busch IGA Market Place Congressman Terry 13 Arctic Glacier Executive Director: 1 Associated Wholesale Grocers 6 Aftermath of a Tornado Kathy Siefken 24 Bimbo Bakeries/Sara Lee Nebraska Grocery 12 Bunzl Industry Association 10 Deadlines Looming for US 13 CRS Migration to EMV 17 Cheyenne International, LLC Directors: 28 Coca-Cola Kirk Anderson 14-15 NGIA 2014 Annual Conference 12 Commonwealth Altadis Pepsi Cola 7 ConAgra Foods Larry Baus 18-19 2014 Sand “Bagger” Golf Outing 23 Crystal Farms Wagner’s Food Pride 21 Dean Food/Land O Lakes 22 How to Overcome Excuses 9 Diageo Jason Dworak 12 Dr Pepper/Snapple Anheuser-Busch 28 Fareway Stores, Inc. 25 3 Tips for Practicing Mindfulness in Brenda Guill 32 Farner Bocken a Multitasking Workplace Affiliated Foods Midwest 4 Frito Lay 23 General Mills Jeff Holling 26 Retiring NGIA Board of Directors Crystal Farms 28 Gopher News 32 Hiland Dairy 30 USDA Proposes More Ground Beef Bill Huenemann 17 Kemps 5th Street IGA Record Keeping 5 Kraft 29 Mondelez International Lezlie Maguire Cubby’s 30 In Memory of Bill Ashley 11 National Tobacco 20 Nebraska Beef Jeff Mueller 20 Nebraska Pork Hy-Vee 20 Omaha World-Herald 8 Nebraska Lottery Steve Pirtle Associated Wholesale 11 Pepsi Grocers 9 Retail Data Systems 17 R.J. Reynolds Pat Raybould B&R Stores 33 Shazam Russ’s Markets 13 Sparboe Farms Super Saver 20 Smart Chicken 26 Tasty Toppings Ted Stessman Farner Bocken 31 SpartanNash 29 Swedish Match 9 The Brenmar Company 29 The Mark Anthony Brands Owned and Published by: 16 Wells Enterprises, Inc. Nebraska Grocery Industry Association, Inc. 13 Wildhorse Distributing 5935 South 56th Street, Suite B, Lincoln, Nebraska 68516-3301 17 Wrigley Phone: (402) 423-5533 or 800-433-6742 E-mail: [email protected]. We retain the right to refuse any advertisement or copy content deemed inappropriate or inconsistent with our goals and objectives to serve our members. July/August 2014 Nebraska Food News... People... Places... Things... This section of the magazine is dedicated to been active members of the chamber of Commerce announcing the changes, additions, promotions, etc., and have made many changes and updates to the regarding members of the grocery industry in Nebraska. store. Two additional buildings have been acquired We invite members to submit information that can be to expand the square footage of the site. All coolers included in this section. including meat, produce, dairy, and frozen foods B&R Stores Inc. of Lincoln reached an have been upgraded as well as new flooring, check agreement with Skagway Discount Department stands, and grocery cart. Cambridge Supermarket stores Inc. to purchase both Skagway stores in provides a lot of support to the community. They Grand Island. The building and property at the work with the food pantry, try to help whenever 620 West State St. location will be purchased somebody needs something, and Francis does town by Associated Wholesale Grocers of Kansas deliveries twice a week. City, Kansas. Associated Wholesale Grocers will For more than 17 years, Bob McKinney construct a new building at the site that will be knew right where everything was. And so did his leased to B&R Stores for a Super Saver store, the shoppers. But McKinney changed suppliers at his company’s second Super Saver location in Grand supermarket, McKinney’s Food Center, earlier this Island. The Skagway store will remain open during year and his store changed with it. There are more construction of the Super Saver building. The 1607 health and beauty items, more automotive items, South Locust St. location will operate as a Skagway more light bulbs. Customer feedback has been all store. Pat Raybould, president of B&R Stores said positive. the company plans to retain the majority of store- When shopping for groceries, some residents level employees at both locations. Skagway employs may decide to go for more healthy fare, comparing about 250. calories, sodium levels and differing nutritional After reopening its doors more than a year ago values. In the past, this entailed picking up different last February, the Elwood Hometown Cooperative items and comparing them side by side. Recently is seeking to pay off debt it took on to open Main Street Market and the Panhandle Coop the store. They had a goal of working to get the System has introduced a new tool that will make cooperative 100 percent funded by membership; the process much easier and the nutritional values we got it to 75 percent last year. The goal is to get of products more clear with residents only having the other 25 percent of membership back to pay off to look at a single number: the NuVal Nutritional their loan on store equipment. Scoring System. The system translates expert They are not retiring, and they are not slowing nutrition knowledge into a simple single score from down. But Alice and Emmett Prewitt, owners of 1 to 100 which is located on shelf signs and shelf Emmett’s Food Town in Stanton, plan to spend tags for consumers to easily identify the value of any more time traveling to see family now that Cissy food at a glance. Louthan has joined their team as store manager. Save-Mart, a fixture in northwest Lincoln for Prewitt, a third-generation grocer, said, “We are not almost 50 years, has a new owner. The Schmick going anywhere. We are thrilled to still be here, and family of McCook, which owns Schmick’s we enjoy all of our customers. We look forward to Markets in McCook and Broken Bow, has work every day.” bought the grocery store and will run it under the Francis and Joyce Kohout celebrated 30 years Schmick’s banner. Tyler Schmick, who manages of the grocery business last week. Francis worked the McCook store, said the family became aware for Hinky Dinky for 16 years. They purchased of the opportunity to buy the store through its Cambridge Supermarket from Raymond and grocery supplier, SpartanNash. They are buying Elaine Highland in 1984. Since then, they have new equipment for the store and will do some Continued on page 4 3 TheVoice of the Nebraska Grocery Industry remodeling and renovation. The Shimicks are the first business, which the Whitefoots co-own; Gene oversees new owners of Save-Mart in the 47-year history of the grocery and Wayne manages catering. the store. The store opened in 1966 as a Jack & Jill May 4th marked the start of a new market venture store and changed its name to Save-Mart in the early in Seward, Mike’s Fresh Market. Mike Brown took 1980’s. It was owned by the Hutson family, which has ownership of the former Sun Mart grocery store and been in the Lincoln grocery business for decades. is working to give the store a facelift from the inside The Omaha area’s seventh Wal-Mart out. Brown said he plans to offer more organic and Neighborhood Market, located just north of Dodge specialty items through the SpartanNash product Street on Saddle Creek Road, is scheduled to open line, one that he said is on the higher end of the Aug. 20. company’s product offerings. Brown also owns Adams Boelus-The sign on the highway just outside Boelus Superfoods in Adams. says its population is 221. But Gene Whitefoot, Punk and Glennie Batt have sold the Oshkosh co-owner of Whitefoot Market and Catering in Superette to their daughter, Lori and her husband the town, said the number has now dropped under Jim Seeley. The Seeley’s have moved to Oshkosh from 200. The community includes a bank, a restaurant, Smyrna, Tennessee. Lori said, “Our goal is to continue a gift shop, a place to buy gas on a credit card and to deliver quality merchandise, superb meat and great his grocery store. Whitefoot started working at the customer service to the people of Oshkosh and the grocery store at age 11—73 years ago. He said he surrounding areas.” intends to keep working “as long as I can do it.” Wayne Whitefoot, Gene’s son, came back to Boelus from Scotia in 1992 and added catering to the family 4 July/August 2014 Nebraska Grocers Meet with Congressman Terry Garett Picklap of Fareway, Dick Stoffer of Hy-Vee, Doug Cunningham of Affiliated Foods Midwest, Pat Hensley of Hy-Vee, and Kathy Siefken, NGIA, met with Nebraska Congressman Lee Terry who currently serves as Chairman of the Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing & Trade.