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Meat & Seafood
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To Stuff the Turkey or Not to Stuff?

Growing up in my parents’ house, my mom always stuffed the turkey with the traditional sage dressing. When I got married and my wife and I would go to my in-laws’ house, my mother in-law never stuffed her turkey. She always baked her dressing separately. I must confess they were both moist and tender. The

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Wine & Spirits
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New Features at Suamico Wine and Spirits Department

We have a guest blogger today and his name is Ryan Deiler. Ryan is our Wine and Spirits Department manager at the recently opened Festival store in Suamico. Ryan and his team worked long hours putting the department together and

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Wine & Spirits
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Exclusive New Line of Festival Liquors!

The Wine and Spirits team here at Festival Foods is excited to announce our own personal line of liquors! Designed to compete with other big name products, the new line up is sure to please the palette—for not a lotta money!

To kick things off, we are excited to present our valued customers with Crooked

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Food Safety
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The Danger Zone

What is the “Danger Zone”? Do you have one in your kitchen?

The Danger Zone I’m referring to is not a hip new restaurant, but rather a food safety term. It’s the range of food temperatures between serving and refrigeration when microorganisms grow and

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Mark Skogen
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Travel Time = Reading Time

My wife and I recently returned from an overseas trip. Although I wasn’t excited about being away from Festival for a week, it gave me time to catch up on some reading I’ve been neglecting.

The first book I pulled out of my briefcase was Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by

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Nutrition
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Would you like to learn about NuVal?

Recently, I have had the pleasure of visiting some local classrooms, hosting booths at expos for children and adults, speaking to various groups, and doing lunch ‘n’ learn-style presentations at local businesses in telling people about the NuVal nutritional scoring system, which has been implemented at all Festival Foods stores.

A few places that I

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Natural Foods
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GT’s Kombucha is Back

Yes, it is true, six varieties of GT’s Kombucha are back in stock at Festival Foods.

Q: What was all the hype and is it safe to drink?

A: The GT’s product wasn’t actually a government mandated recall, but a safety precaution as some Kombucha’s were found to have elevated alcohol levels surpassing the allowable

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Grocery
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Our Hardworking Vendors

The Festival team is committed to practicing our “Boomerang Theory”. Our associates are empowered to make decisions and take actions that will “bring the customer back”. And we can’t do it alone.

We have developed such great vendor partnerships over the years and they have been so instrumental to the success of our company. Without

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Deli
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Deli Redesign

We just opened our latest store in Suamico and the single largest change took place in our Deli department. We flip-flopped the service area with our salad bar/hot bar island. The thought behind it was to showcase the area that we have the most creativity in merchandising and that we feel helps to separate us

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Front End
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The Superbowl of Competitive Bagging

The excitement surrounding the WGA Great Wisconsin Bag-Off had been building for two months. Our field, which started with over 100 baggers, had been narrowed down to the top four baggers from our Skogen’s Festival Foods stores.

On September 22nd, the big day finally arrived! Tanner Deml (Holmen), Jordan Devalk (Darboy), Jonathan Schwartzkopf (Northland), and

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