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Business Wire
09-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Save A Lot, Leevers Supermarkets Expand Collaboration to Reach Hispanic Communities
ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of its ongoing strategic collaboration, Save A Lot, one of the largest discount grocery chains in the U.S., and Leevers Supermarkets announced the opening of a new store format called Save A Lot y Mas. Located at 9430 Midland Blvd. in Overland, Mo., the store builds on the core Save A Lot concept, offering an expanded selection of fresh Hispanic produce, specialty meats and bakery items designed to deliver both cultural relevance and everyday value. 'Save A Lot y Mas is an extension of our work, expanding on our commitment to delivering quality, culturally meaningful grocery experiences at affordable prices,' said Bill Mayo, Save A Lot Chief Operating Officer. Share The new concept, with two additional locations in Colorado, will operate as a test-and-learn format with the potential for further introduction into other Save A Lot locations serving a large Hispanic customer base. 'Save A Lot y Mas is an extension of our work, expanding on our commitment to delivering quality, culturally meaningful grocery experiences at affordable prices,' said Bill Mayo, Save A Lot Chief Operating Officer. 'We'll continue to test and learn as we expand our product offerings and store formats into other areas.' The store concept is the next iteration in a continuing collaboration between Save A Lot and Leevers to better serve the Hispanic community and follows the introduction of the Ahorra Mucho store format in Aurora, Colo., last fall. Save A Lot y Mas incorporates learnings from Ahorra Mucho and blends these best practices within the successful value-driven Save A Lot platform customers know and love. Initial concept features include an enhanced and diverse produce assortment, a curated meat selection with popular cuts and ready-to-cook marinated options, and partnerships with local bakeries to offer fresh-baked sweet breads and other authentic bakery options. Save A Lot y Mas will also introduce updated graphics and advertising designed to better connect with Spanish-speaking shoppers. Spanish will be prominently featured throughout the store and across marketing materials, including in-store signage and digital promotions. 'Save A Lot y Mas is part of our ongoing concept development efforts to better meet the needs of Hispanic shoppers,' said Jon Koontz, Chief Operating Officer at Leevers Supermarkets. 'We're excited to bring these offerings to the vibrant St. Louis community. Using what we learn here, and in our locations in Colorado, we hope to be able to bring insights about how best to serve this growing customer base to the broader Save A Lot network.' To celebrate the opening, the store will host a carnival July 9 in the store parking lot, beginning at 8 a.m. CT, with fun activities for all ages including a bounce house, cotton candy machine, face painting, taco truck, the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, tasty samples, coupons and more. Community members and shoppers, alongside representatives from the St. Louis Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, will celebrate with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. Save A Lot y Mas in Overland is open daily from 6 a.m. – 9 p.m. Customers can learn more by visiting About Save A Lot Founded in 1977, Save A Lot is the largest independently owned and operated discount grocery store chain in the U.S., with approximately 700 stores in 30 states. True to its mission of being a hometown grocer, Save A Lot strives to provide unmatched quality and value to local families. Customers enjoy savings compared to traditional grocery stores on great tasting, high quality private label brands, national brand products, USDA-inspected meat, farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, and other non-food items. For more information visit and follow Save A Lot on Facebook ( on X (@savealot), and Instagram (@SaveALotFoodStores), or for more information on becoming a Save A Lot independent retail operator, visit About Leevers Supermarkets Leevers Supermarkets, inc. is a 100% employee-owned business, operating independently run grocery stores under banners including Save A Lot, El Mercado De Colorado, and Leevers Locavore in Colorado, St. Louis and the Mid-Atlantic region. Leevers-operated stores passionately serve local communities by identifying their interests and needs and delivering a full, fresh, and friendly shopping experience that uniquely delivers what customers want.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
From courthouse ambushes to citizen deportations, Trump is weaponizing immigration fear
Activists protest the agenda of President Donald Trump during a rally near the water tower on the Magnificent Mile on Jan. 25, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by) A day doesn't pass now that someone in America, almost invariably someone who is not white, is getting snatched off the street, jerked off a worksite or out of their home, or sometimes arrested after appearing at what they thought would be a routine immigration hearing. In Phoenix recently, after learning their court cases were cancelled, multiple immigrants were taken into custody by federal agents lying in wait in the courthouse's hallways and parking lot. The Arizona Mirror reported agents were also detaining people that day after hearings at other immigration courts across the country. An attorney for one of those arrested this week in Phoenix told a local reporter, 'The majority of them are going to be waking up tomorrow in their own countries.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan is barreling forward with little regard for due process or long established civil and human rights norms. The result has been that the lives of thousands of immigrant families are being needlessly disrupted — or outright destroyed — with potentially millions more in danger of falling prey to the president's white nationalist, anti-immigrant crusade. The truth is that the overwhelming majority of migrants to the U.S. mean us no harm, even if many of them have violated civil laws by entering the country illegally or overstaying their visas. Do some immigrants commit serious crimes? Yes. But decades of research has shown that immigrants in the U.S., including undocumented immigrants, commit fewer crimes on average than people who were born here. Most arrive in this country filled with hopes, dreams and a longing to share in the aspirational mission — as flawed as it has been — of the world's richest and oldest democracy. But Trump and his Republican abettors would have us believe that immigration authorities are just trying to protect us from what the president falsely describes as a relentless assault by foreign-born rapists, murderers and child molesters who come here determined to destroy our way of life. It's Trump's latest Big Lie — the first being his groundless assertion that he won the 2020 election — and the sort of grotesque propaganda the president uses to dredge up popular support for his agenda. No, Mr. Trump, you lost that election and migrants are not trying to kill us. Rather, it's the opposite: they're largely trying to emulate us. Like most of us, they want to live in a safe, prosperous, law-abiding democratic society, as opposed to the often violent or economically distressed nations they left behind. What's so dangerous about Trump's endless torrent of lies about immigrants is that it has already had dangerous — and even deadly — consequences. The lies he told in 2017 in his first term as president about a 'Hispanic invasion' and 'open borders' were amplified in the manifesto of a man who drove from his Dallas suburb to gun down 23 people in El Paso, most of them were U.S.-born Latinos or Mexicans. The lies he told in 2018 about wealthy Jews financing immigrant caravans from Honduras, which the president also claimed were infiltrated by Middle East terrorists, inspired a racist gunman to slaughter 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. The lies he told last year in his run for reelection about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, most of whom came here to flee violence in their homeland, eating dogs and cats forced that community to cower in fear. Fast forward to today and Trump's foot soldiers in the Department of Homeland Security are jailing immigrants who've dared to exercise their constitutionally protected right to free speech. They've deported Venezuelans and others without due process and they've begun to defy federal courts to end these abuses. They've even deported U.S. citizens to countries they've never been to. Most disturbingly, they're rounding up droves of otherwise law-abiding men, women and children across the country, people who truly help make this nation stronger every day, despite this administration's early pronouncements that it was going to focus its immigration enforcement efforts on expelling 'the worst of the worst.' There is a maliciousness about the way Trump is executing his immigration policy. The goal isn't just to hunt down and deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible, but to instill deep-seated terror in the communities they are targeting. Why else would you deport a Honduran mother and her U.S.-born, four-year-old child suffering from cancer? Why else would unidentified masked agents scoop an international college student off the streets and toss her in prison for the 'crime' of writing an op-ed criticizing our country's foreign policy, an act that is explicitly protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution? The very act that I am engaged in now. Before our Civil War, escaped slaves were tracked and recaptured by their owners and opportunistic bounty hunters. Decades of Jim Crow saw African Americans stalked and lynched by the thousands. And between 1910 and 1920, scholars say the Texas Rangers pursued and summarily executed, often without having ever been charged with a crime, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexicans to drive them off property their families had inherited under Spanish land grants before the U.S. invasion of Mexico in the mid-1800s. You see, Brown people — my people — have been hunted before, but our communities have survived to tell the story. We're being hunted again, and we'll survive to tell this story as well. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
