FRISCO, Texas -- United Supermarkets LLC has opened a Market Street food concept store in Frisco, Texas, that includes the Dallas-Fort Worth area's first "A Taste of Market Street," a mini-version of the 70,000-square-foot main store within the confines of the parking lot and designed for quick access and convenience, complete with fuel station, bakery, gourmet meals to go, fresh produce and many other items found inside the main store.
From September 5 to November 1, the company is holding a Free Fuel promotion at A Taste of Market Street in Frisco. For every $25 spent in the store, participants [image-nocss] receive 10 cents off per gallon of fuel.
Market Street, which opened in late August, offers fresh produce, gourmet meats and cheeses, and a wide selection of grocery items. The store will also feature a research-and-development kitchen, in-store health care clinic and drive-thru pharmacy.
"Our Frisco store will have something for everyone," said United Supermarkets CEO Dan Sanders. "For the gourmet chef in you, we offer the finest produce, meats and cheeses to make those meals shine. For that individual-on-the-go, he/she can utilize the drive-thru convenience of 'A Taste of Market Street' and pick up a delicious meal and a few other items without having to get out of the car."
The first Market Street opened in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1998, and other stores followed, one in Amarillo, Texas, and two in Lubbock, Texas.
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Meanwhile, in a separate deal, United Supermarkets has selected KSS Retail as its provider for price modeling and optimization. The retailer will use the real-time, predictive modeling of KSS Retail's optimization software to enhance value in the strategic areas of pricing and promotions.
"We believe that KSS Retail will provide us the enhanced toolset to more effectively execute our pricing strategy across both promotional and everyday-priced items while identifying missed opportunities to offer better value to our guests," said Chris St. Clair, vice president and chief information officer of United Supermarkets. "Our goal is to provide our customers with quality, value and service, and we are confident that KSS Retail will help us to continue to meet these objectives in this unprecedented time of food-based commodity price fluctuation."
United Supermarkets joins a other retailers that have selected KSS Retail for price optimization, including Raley's, Haggen, Brookshire Brothers, Cumberland Farms and Super S Foods.
Lance Jacobs, CEO of KSS Retail, said, "By using our real-time, self-learning price optimization solution, the merchandising team at United will be empowered with accurate modeling and forecasting capabilities. United has an unwavering commitment to exceptional service, for their customers, their employees and their communities, and we are excited to have them as our newest retail partner. We are confident that they will achieve great results in their use of price optimization."
Florham Park, N.J.-based KSS Retail is a provider of price optimization solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retail merchants use KSS Retail software to accurately model, forecast and optimize retail prices for regular and promotional pricing by using a tool that integrates price modeling and optimization into the daily work flow of a merchant.
Lubbock-based United Supermarkets is a family-owned retail grocery chain with stores in 27 markets across north and west Texas. A self-distributing company with its headquarters and distribution center in Lubbock, it operates 47 stores under three formats: United Supermarkets, Market Street and Amigos United.
In other grocery-gasoline/c-store news, Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix Super Markets Inc. will open a new Pix convenience store and gas station in Loxahatchee, Fla., reported The Palm Beach Post. The first Publix Pix fuel island in South Florida—the seventh in the chain, including six in Florida and one in Tennessee—could make its debut by late next year, Publix spokesperson Kimberly Jaeger, told the newspaper. The island would have four gas pumps and would feature a total of eight fueling stations and a "convenience hut," where customers walk up to a window to buy food and merchandise such as candy, single-serve drinks, cigarettes and lottery tickets, said the report.
The retailer has nearly 950 supermarkets in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee.
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