SpartanNash recently celebrated its independent grocer customers’ achievements during its 2024 Food Solutions Expo at DeVos Place Convention Center in Grand Rapids, Mich. The company awarded eight outstanding independent grocers with a 2023-2024 Vision Award for exemplifying customer focus and serving their shoppers with excellence.
The SpartanNash Food Solutions Expo took place July 23-25. More than 1,500 attendees, including independent grocer customers, vendors, and SpartanNash associates gathered for industry deals, networking, and education.
“We’re proud that our customers contribute to our mission to deliver the ingredients for a better life, and it’s an honor to celebrate the impressive impact they have in their communities,” said SpartanNash Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer Amy McClellan. “Their stores serve as critical food destinations, centers of connectivity for neighborhoods, and places to enjoy meaningful careers.”
The SpartanNash Vision Award winners for Core Behavior include:
- Leppinks Food Centers: This grocer earned recognition as Michigan Grocer’s Outstanding Retailer. With local community sponsorships and annual customer appreciation events, the Leppinks team lives up to the SpartanNash “We Serve” core behavior
- Fresh Encounter, Inc.: Following a tornado warning, an associate took immediate action to keep shoppers and other team members sheltered safely. After being hit by the tornado, the store embodied the “We Create Solutions” core behavior by reopening two weeks later
- Nilssens Foods: The company lives by the “We Win” core behavior by investing in store remodels, earning recognition as the 2023 Grocer of the Year in the Wisconsin Grocers Association (WGA), and donating over $42,000 to the local community through an annual golf tournament
- Fate’s Market: From their recent 102nd anniversary sale parking lot party to their creative marketing materials, this team exemplifies the SpartanNash core behavior “We Have Fun”
- Leevers Foods: As a leader in creating tag concepts for electronic shelf labels (ESLs), reducing labor and waste, and streamlining pricing and accuracy, this fourth-generation grocer earned the prestigious recognition of the “Delivering the Ingredients for a Better Life” award.
Performance Awards were given to customers committed to providing shoppers with value and quality with private label products:
- Randy’s Neighborhood Market: Large Market Size Winner
- Town & Country Supermarkets: Mid-Market Size Winner
- Cahoy’s General Store: Small Market Size Winner