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Stop & Shop serves up free meal planning service

Access to The Dinner Daily offered as part of Family Meals Month

Russell Redman

September 11, 2019

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Stop & Shop is offering customers free access to The Dinner Daily meal planning service in recognition of National Family Meals Month.

The Quincy, Mass.-based supermarket chain said Wednesday that up to 30,000 customers can join and use The Dinner Daily at no charge through the end of 2019. Through the service, shoppers will receive a customized weekly dinner menu based on their family’s food preferences as well as what’s on sale at their local Stop & Shop.

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Tools in The Dinner Daily program are designed to make it easier for families to put together meals for everyone, including emailed weekly meal plans, meals based on weekly sale items at Stop & Shop, and an editable shopping list so users can include all of their weekly grocery needs.

The service also enables users to customize food preferences, dietary needs and family size. Menu options include reduced carbs, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, soy-free, egg-free and “stick to the basics,” among others. Stop & Shop customers, too, can use The Daily Dinner’s one-click ordering for Peapod, the chain’s online grocery service, for home delivery or in-store pickup.

“As our customers adjust to busy back-to-school routines, we’re hoping to make dinners easier with this stress-free way to plan their weekly family meals and save money while doing it,” Stop & Shop Chief Marketing Officer Whitney Clarke said in a statement. “Stop & Shop and The Dinner Daily are excited to offer this service to our customers to help take the challenge out of the nightly ‘what’s for dinner’ question.”

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Held each September, National Family Meals Month was started in 2015 by the Food Marketing Institute Foundation to encourage families to get together for one more meal at home each week. Citing the nonprofit Family Dinner Project initiative, Stop & Shop and The Dinner Daily said research has shown that family meals can tighten bonds between family members and lead to improved academic performance and self-esteem, a greater sense of resilience and lower rates of obesity.

“Family meals bring so many benefits. The Dinner Daily makes having family meals not only easier, but more affordable too,” commented Laurin Mills, founder and CEO of The Dinner Daily. “Stop & Shop recognizes that it’s not easy to put a healthy meal on the table night after night. Planning healthy and simple dinners is an ongoing challenge for so many families, especially during this busy time of year. By providing this program, Stop & Shop is giving 30,000 of their customers an easy and time-saving solution, at no cost.”

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Part of Ahold Delhaize USA, Stop & Shop operates more than 400 stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey.

About the Author

Russell Redman

Senior Editor
Supermarket News

Russell Redman has served as senior editor at Supermarket News since April 2018, his second tour with the publication. In his current role, he handles daily news coverage for the SN website and contributes news and features for the print magazine, as well as participates in special projects, podcasts and webinars and attends industry events. Russ joined SN from Racher Press Inc.’s Chain Drug Review and Mass Market Retailers magazines, where he served as desk/online editor for more than nine years, covering the food/drug/mass retail sector. 

Russell Redman’s more than 30 years of experience in journalism span a range of editorial manager, editor, reporter/writer and digital roles at a variety of publications and websites covering a breadth of industries, including retailing, pharmacy/health care, IT, digital home, financial technology, financial services, real estate/commercial property, pro audio/video and film. He started his career in 1989 as a local news reporter and editor, covering community news and politics in Long Island, N.Y. His background also includes an earlier stint at Supermarket News as center store editor and then financial editor in the mid-1990s. Russ holds a B.A. in journalism (minor in political science) from Hofstra University, where he also earned a certificate in digital/social media marketing in November 2016.

Russell Redman’s experience:

Supermarket News - Informa
Senior Editor 
April 2018 - present

Chain Drug Review/Mass Market Retailers - Racher Press
Desk/Online Editor 
Sept. 2008 - March 2018

CRN magazine - CMP Media
Managing Editor
May 2000 - June 2007

Bank Systems & Technology - Miller Freeman
Executive Editor/Managing Editor
Dec. 1996 - May 2000

Supermarket News - Fairchild Publications
Financial Editor/Associate Editor
April 1995 - Dec. 1996 

Shopping Centers Today Magazine - ICSC 
Desk Editor/Assistant Editor
Dec. 1992 - April 1995

Testa Communications
Assistant Editor/Contributing Editor (Music & Sound Retailer, Post, Producer, Sound & Communications and DJ Times magazines)
Jan. 1991 - Dec. 1992 

American Banker/Bond Buyer
Copy Editor
Oct. 1990 - Jan. 1991 

This Week newspaper - Chanry Communications
Reporter/Editor
May 1989 - July 1990

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