Hannaford Store Recalls
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Hannaford meatball recall
JULY 18
Hannaford Supermarkets are recalling meatball products they say could be contaminated with listeria. A Hannaford spokesman says no illnesses have been reported but they are recalling the products sold in the deli department
They are the homestyle meatballs with sauce sold by the pound, the meatball panini cold, and the meatball panini hot.
A Hannaford spokesman says not to eat them but return them for a full refund.
Hannaford beef recall
July 23
Cargill Beef voluntarily recalled 29,339 pounds of ground beef produced at the company’s Wyalusing, Penn., facility on May 25 because the products may contain Salmonella Enteritidis.
As a result of Cargill’s recall, Hannaford is alerting consumers in all markets to check their freezers for ground beef with “use or sell by” dates between May 29 and June 16, 2012. These products are in scope of the Cargill recall.
Hannaford reports cantaloupe recall
July 29
Hannaford is reporting it's second recall in July - this time for cantaloupes.
Hannaford officials say Burch Farms based out of North Carolina, is recalling cantaloupes out of concern that they may be contaminated with listeria.
There are no reports of illnesses from the melons.
Hannaford officials say they have removed all of the affected cantaloupes. They include a sticker that reads Burch Farms, Cantaloupe PLU 4319.
Hannaford's sister company: "Food Lion" [a Southern US chain, 5x bigger than Hannafords accor. to Wiki.] has been repeatedly been in the news from way back in the 1980s to recent times for violations including changing expiration dates on meats. I recall ABC news story using hidden cameras in a Food Lion store, nabbing them changing labels, as well as doing all kinds of funny things to meats to make them look better,fresher than they were.
About several years ago, there was a moment Hannafords was going to have the Food Lion's name.
Having said all that, i go to Hannafords about 3 times a week. Walmart, about once every 3 weeks. I wish Market Basket was up here...lowest prices,clean stores, all 20-30 registers are always open...free coffee. When Market Basket opens,nearby Walmarts start hurting, not vice-versa.
Empirefalls: Where do you find Market Basket?
I have been doing some digging. Food Lion has closed 254 stores as well 44 Bloom stores, renamed 21 Bloom stores as Food Lion, and closed 1 warehouse in Tennessee. This has been taking place since 2010 and more than 5000 employees have lost their jobs.
I also can not find where any Hannaford stores have been closed.
Food Lion was blaming it on the economy. They have gone from approximately 1300 stores in the southeastern part of our country to about 1050 in the last two years.
Market Basket has several locations all over NH.
I have been doing some digging.
What conclusions have you drawn from your digging?
They are not as financial stable as one would think. They closed 15 stores in 2010. They closed 113 stores in 2011 then they closed another 126 stores this year. The only reason I went digging into this was something my sister had told me earlier this year when she had told me that they were closing up over a hundred stores in her part of the country for a second year in a row.
My personal observation is that the quality of meat and produce at Hannaford are generally superior to Shaw's. I drive an extra 10 minutes to get to one, despite there being a Shaw's in my town. Just sayin'
Hannaford is not the problem It's the USDA and their regulations that have forced many local meats to be processed in PA.
Every cow gets crammed into the same grinder.
I posted a thread on the drought that is having an impact on the corn supply. If you like beef buy it now and freezing it. The prices are as low as they will get as the herds are culled. By fall the price of a stake is going to ski rocket. The local farmer with grass fed beef is going to do well this year as the market puts big chain stores up there with the organics in prices.
Market Basket is opening a store in the old Lowes store next year in Biddeford.
The Massachusetts migration is in full swing!
Market Basket is actually 'Demoulas Market Basket', there is also a 'Market Basket' chain down south.
Perhaps the most interesting Market Basket story is the RaynhamMa. Market Basket. Twenty years ago Market Basket opened in Raynham. Walmart followed by opening up a store 5 miles away, hoping to crush Market Basket. Didnt happen. Now Walmart is opening another Walmart closer to the Market Basket location to see if two Walmarts 5 miles away from each other, will help their sales. Walmart will have to lower their prices. [How the retail chain has changed]
From a Hannaford cutter whio has a samll herd of hi sown.
The price of beef is going to skyrocket due to draught ,corn prices etc. etc. !
The net effect of these things shows in cases. This AM early in Westbrook few packages of HB and what was there was all discounted !
They grind very little of their own out of the various hamburg they sell.
Speaking of Mass. this weekend I saw a store on RT 1 Suagus that had been renamed w/the Hannaford brand!
They are all gouging us no matter who it is IMHO.
The last renamimg of store brands "My Essential" is a effort to have one store brand cover all stores.
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They love Hannaford's down in Ma, from what i read in forums about Hannafords when they started expanding in that area about three years ago. Shaw's seems to be the most disliked chain store.
I have family that lives down there in MA and in and around the Bridgewater area. Things went sour fast when they (Shaws) were bought out by Albertsons is one of the things I have been told. That goes back several years. So when Hannaford moved into their state, it meant new blood to them or another choice.
I don't see where it has been mentioned - Hannaford's is owned by Delhaize, a Belgium Company - In the US they own Food Lion, Bloom, Bottom Dollar Food, Harveys, Hannaford , and Sweetbay.
At a Glance:
Delhaize Group is a Belgian international food retailer with activities in eleven countries on three continents. Delhaize Group is listed on both NYSE Euronext Brussels (ticker symbol: DELB) and the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: DEG).
At the end of 2011, Delhaize Group’s sales network consisted of 3,408 stores ( an increase of 608 stores in 2011), generating EUR 21.1 billion in revenues and Group share in net profi t of EUR 475 million. Delhaize Group employs approximately 160,000 associates worldwide
Delhaize Group also owned 12 warehousing facilities in the U.S., 7 in Belgium and 14 in the Southeastern Europe and Asia segment.
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Shaw's ,once known for low prices, changed for the worse, about 1992, when Shaw's union employees went out on strike for pay raises,etc. They got their way and as predicted, prices skyrocketed on the store shelves, to this day. Albertsons? I have never been in one, i have read about some good points in Consumer Reports. But they closed a bunch of stores
I don't know if this still holds true today or not compared to that of five years ago, but it was either the workers in Maine who were not unionized and those in Mass were or the other way around. This created a lot of problems up and down the delivery chain for awhile as a lot of product is shipped in by train from one warehouse to another...it could be coming from Mass and going to Wells or coming from Wells and going to Mass. Depends on where the product is in the transport stream when it gets to the warehouse by truck. Are we talking about Maine Goods heading south or Mass goods heading north. When the strike did take place...it meant people out of work on both ends of the warehouse line except if you could get a truck through to the non-unionized warehouse.
Just found out, there have been 2 union strikes at Shaws, one 2 years ago and the other, about 1995. The 1995 strike was the most devastating as Shaws was no longer a low price king and it was no longer a likable store.
Hananford a few years ago wanted to sell stores to a Canadian outfit. Feds jumped and slowed it down.
Hannaford at the time wanted to dump stores and to go wholesale only ! The next step was the buyout !
Swaybar....thank you for doing some research. Guys, getting info from my brother's cousin who nephew works at _____________ is often unfounded, like they wanted to go the wholesale route....."source, morningstar.com....management has launched a new pricing strategy and major price investments at the Food Lion and other U.S. banners." As far as Shaw's goes, from the Patriot Ledger on the 13th of this month announced Shaw's may be on the chopping block along with Star Markets.....like many others, I prefer Hannaford to Shaws based on numerous informal surveys.....
I still prefer IGA.
......."Hannaford is not the problem It's the USDA and their regulations that have forced many local meats to be processed in PA"........
The USDA is part of the US government and just like every other branch of government, it has destroyed, or mucked up, everything it touches.
USDA says that the way people like us raise, slaughter and handle beef is wrong, and the only "safe" way to do it is the way they rule that it has to be done, by all the major processors. I would stand our hamburg and beef cuts alongside of any commercial beef produced in this country, and it would be the winner hands down. The hamburg in Shaws and Hannafords doesn't even look like ours. The store stuff is a limpid pinkish color that is not even close to its natural color. I can cut off a piece of rump steak from my critters and it doesn't remotely resemble what the stores sell. It is a lovely cherry red when fresh cut, and you can't find that at Hannafords, no matter how much you want to pay for it!
When is the last time you heard of someone getting sick on locally raised meat? When is the last time you heard of another food borne illness, and food recall, at your local grocery story?
In my area of Maine, all kinds of people who never did it before, are raising their own beef, Drive down the road and you will see holstein, hereford, angus and other kinds of cows all over the place, on old fields that have not seen an animal for many years, as local people rebel against the commercial meat "industry". You can buy a cow for a few hundred bucks, put it on green grass for 6 months to finish it, take it to the slaughter house and have it killed, and cut and wrapped, and have a years worth of meat for less than you would pay in any store, over that time. And the quality is no comparison!
We had three freezers of meat last year at Christmas time, and are down to a bit over one now, but more is in the works. It is quite a comfortable feeling to have a years worth of meat and chicken, at your fingertips, and you never have to leave the house for it.
There are numerous "cottage industries" all over Maine, raising high quality beef, pork and chicken, along with goats, rabbits and so on. They are advertised in Uncle Henry's, the weekly papers, the daily papers, and all over the place. Buy yourself a quarter or so to start, it will come all cut, wrapped, labeled and blast frozen, and have enough freezer capacity to care for it, and kiss Hannaford and Shaws goodby, You will never regret it.
We haven't.
WC
Yet another Hannaford's recall
Hannaford product recalled:
~Snack Pac Apples, Granola & Yogurt (4.3oz) with a sell date on/before August 18/UPC code 4126817195
~Snack Pac Apples & Caramel (4oz) with a sell date on/before August 18/UPC code 4126817191
"We haven't."
WC
I listened to a Seattle based radio show, last Saturday or Sunday . . a local chef/dine around kind of thing. The focus was on Skagit County, just north of Seattle/King County. The guest chef was lamenting the fact that a lot of local farmers are no longer offering wholesale pricing to restaurants because they can sell everything they raise or grow at retail + premiums. It's pretty evident that people are catching on and are becoming less willing to take chances with what goes into the body via factory foods.
Al Amoling 07/30/2012:
.Market Basket is opening a store in the old Lowes store next year in Biddeford.
'file photo':
Market Basket approved for Biddeford
By Jennifer Feals
jfeals@seacoastonline.com
BIDDEFORD — The Maine DEP has granted regulatory approval to... the owner of the Market Basket grocery chain.
The Biddeford location would be the first Market Basket site in Maine.
"The application for the $11 million project was in process with us for just 35 days will allow for the redevelopment of that vacated site and the creation of dozens of new jobs in Maine," said Samantha DePoy-Warren, Maine DEP,,,.
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http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120830-NEWS-208300361
While doing some research, I found a small convience store chain with the name of Market Basket that has some stores in South Portland, Portland, Rockland, just to name a few.
I wonder if the grocery store chain will make an issue out of the name and take it to court and make or the other change their name...or if things are just left alone.
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I think the full name is 'DeMoulas Market Basket',thats how they are distinguishable themselves from 'Market Basket', i guess. Dont quote me.
I have not been in one in 20 years, do they still serve free coffee? Thats a good little perk for customers
I have no idea about the coffee, the closest one to me is Rochester NH...there is one going to be built in North Conway between Hannaford and Shaw's...which are less than 1/4 of a mile a part. Rochester, on the other hand, is about 1.5 to 2 hours.
Market Basket is a wonderful, no-frills operation. This move to Biddeford has been rumored locally for about 6 months and we are thrilled to see it finally happening. In speaking with a NH store manager recently, I learned that the company does not adjust its prices to any local market--they are what they are and, on average, 30% lower than the Hannaford/Shaw's cabal which rules this area. My own anecdotal observations confirm this. The only adustments to be made will be sales tax, of course, bottle deposits and minimum milk prices all required by state law.
Some examples:
Top Round Roast $3.29 lb. on sale this week at $2.69 lb.
Chunk White Tuna $1.00 per can
Crystal Geyser water 35-pack $4.99 on sale about once a month for $3.99
Paper products are much cheaper.
In general their meats are very good, deli stuff is also good, produce is as good as you can find these days; so-so at times.
Hannaford's and Shaw's will be making some adustments in Biddeford, for sure.
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I just found it interesting that Hannaford has had three product recalls in 11 days. Either they are being leaned on and watched very carefully or their they are doing a themselves a huge favor. I have noticed a huge difference in price in their ground beef...meaning it is higher than usual. My guess is that they are grinding it themselves, but can't say for sure.