![]() ![]() ![]() For more information, find Pittsville Family Foods on Facebook. Monday through Saturday, with the hours subject to change. The owners also plan to eventually offer delivery and catering options. A cold deli will be available when the store opens, with plans to add a hot deli toward the end of the summer, as the owners work on some upgrades. ![]() Pittsville Family Foods will offer fresh-cut meats, fresh produce and other grocery items. “When we heard about a closure in Pittsville we started talking and realized it would be a good fit for what we do, and to see a small town lose a grocery store isn’t good,” the post said. in Pittsville, the former Baum’s Mercantile grocery store.Īndy Cveykus and Gordie Rundle, who have owned Stratford Family Foods for the last three years, recently announced on the new store’s Facebook page they and their families would open Pittsville Family Foods. ![]() Pittsville Family Foods will open May 22 at 5307 Second Ave. With the exception of Waitrose, our snapshot survey shows all stores have some way to go.A new grocery store will open this month in Pittsville. Chuck snacks off the checkouts The Food Commission would like all retailers to adopt firm policies for banning checkout promotions of HFSS foods – and we would like to see these policies enforced at all store locations. Somerfield (no policy) has now been taken over by the Co-op (policy says HFSS products should not be promoted) in any case, we found the Co-op stores visited in breech of their own guidelines. In the United States, Berkeley, California, passed a healthy checkout law in 2020 regulating which products can be sold near the register. Marks and Spencer has a policy of having one sweet free till in each store, but this was not clearly evident during survey visits. Tesco and Sainsbury’s told us these were now permitted. Waitrose told us these were discouraged, but could be left to the discretion of individual store managers. Store policies The chains have a variety of policies about less healthy food promotion on checkouts. Coca-Cola was the most commonly found drink, and Walker’s crisp varieties were the most common bagged snack. Amazon says it’s designed for small- to medium-sized. Nestlé and Cadbury chocolate bars, along with packets of Haribo were the most commonly displayed food products. Unlike the Amazon Go technology, the Dash Cart won’t entirely replace traditional grocery checkouts in the stores where it’s used. Top products on sale The survey of products found that foods and drinks which would be banned from being advertised during television programmes of particular interest to children and young people were sold near checkouts surveyed. To top it off, many of the tills we saw also had booze alongside where customers queued. Where our survey found these foods and drinks, we found a lot of them – all such checkouts had at least ten different items, with some checkout areas having more than 50. Such items were often found distributed on both sides of checkout queues – as people waited to pay, they walked through what amount to ‘tunnels’ of less healthy foods. Tesco and Sainsbury’s visits showed that the checkout areas in larger stores were free of such promotions, but in the newer, smaller stores (Tesco Express and Metro & Sainsbury’s Local) such displays abounded, and all included a variety of confectionary, and in some instances soft drinks and salty, bagged snacks. Somerfield and Co-op stores (prior to their merger), Marks and Spencer and Iceland all had confectionery of various types within easy reach and sight of children. Only Waitrose checkout areas were entirely free of HFSS food and drink. The Food Magazine surveyed the checkouts in summer 2009 in 28 stores from major supermarket chains Waitrose (3 shops), Somerfield (4 shops), Co-op (2 shops), Iceland (2 shops), Tesco (7 shops), Sainsbury’s (6 shops), and Marks and Spencer (4 shops), in locations around London and Oxford. Many big chains promised to do better, but now, six years on, a survey for The Food Magazine has found that many of Britain’s supermarket super-powers are still stocking tills with high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) foods for impulse buying. Published in The Food Magazine 28th September 2009īack in 2003, The Food Commission launched a campaign, Chuck Snacks off the Checkout!, after complaints from members of our Parents Jury that supermarkets were encouraging kids to pester their parents to buy unhealthy foods as they went to pay for their shopping. ![]()
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