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On May 15, Lunds opened the first full-service grocery store in downtown St. Paul and created eighty new union jobs.
The new Lunds is located on the first level of the Penfield Apartments at Robert and 10th Streets. This store has everything customers have come to expect from Lunds and Byerly’s and our members who work there – extraordinary food, exceptional service and passionate expertise.
Lunds Penfield is open seven days a week from 6 a.m. to midnight.  

The ARGA negotiating committee met with the employers on May 12 and 13 in Duluth.  Once again we made some progress with both sides dropping items from their proposals.
On the meat department proposal, the committee has dropped items 2, 3, 4 and 15.  The Employer has dropped item 4 and the last sentence of item 6 – b 9.2.  Both parties spent  several hours on Article 9/Holidays and have revised 9.1-9.4.  We still are not done with all parts as we have made a counter to their proposal.

Negotiations resumed with Ogle's on May 5, 2014.  After admitting that their proposal submitted to us on April 4, 2014 was copied from another store's proposal, they returned with a 5-item proposal -- saying it was their extreme proposal in response to our extreme proposal -- except they did not receive our proposal until after we received their proposal!  They went over their proposal; however, we did not respond.  We will continue to keep you updated.

May 7, 2014  Saint Paul, MN- It was announced that Roundy’s, Inc., parent company of Rainbow foods has sold its Twin Cities Rainbow Division to Local Grocers.