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Awards & Achievements

We are honored to have been named Best Grocery Store and Best Place to Work by so many Gulf Coast newspapers, magazines, organizations and online polls. We have also been nationally recognized by Bon Appétit, Epicurious, AOL, Business Insider and The Daily Meal as One of the Best Grocery Stores in the Country. These honors and achievements are the result of our commitment to our team members, customers, vendors, community organizations and local events.

Recent News Stories

Hurricane Francine: Last to Close, First to Open
Rouses Markets Named Regional Top Workplace
Rouses Markets named a Top Independent Grocer in the United States
New Lafayette store opens near River Ranch in Lafayette
First Rouses Market in North Baton Rouge opens
Rouses Markets opens its first grocery store with a drive-thru restaurant, Houma da Chicken.
Donny Rouse announces plans for new stores and remodels.
Rouses Markets hires two new Vice Presidents: Ron Bonacci as VP of Advertising and Marketing, and Brian Bosworth as VP of Center Store
Rouses Remodels two new locations
Houston Astros Alex Bregman promotes Breggy Bombs at Rouses Markets
Rouses Markets announces plans to open new store in Biloxi, MS
New Rouses Markets to open in Picayune, MS
Rouses Markets partners with Kellogg’s to support middle school sports in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
Rouses Markets teams up with the New Orleans Saints to Tackle Hunger
Rouses Markets breaks ground on first North Baton Rouge store
Rouses Markets Named Official Supermarket of the New Orleans Saints and Presenting Sponsor of Training Camp
New store in North Baton Rouge announced for Summer 2023
Adaptability key to Rouses Markets success during Covid 19, says CEO Donny Rouse
Rouses Markets and Sunkist build World’s Largest Citrus Display
Stacy Wiggins named Regional VP of Operations, overseeing the east region of the company.
Rouses Markets starts Disaster Relief Fund for team members affected by Hurricane Ida
From the Washington Post: Rouses Markets rolls in truckloads of groceries after Hurricane Ida
Rouses Markets Donates Massive Generator to Thibodaux Regional after Hurricane Ida
MMA fighter Justin Poirier visited Rouses Markets in Youngsville in April 2021
March 2021, Rouses Markets opened a grocery store at Guste Senior Living
December 2020, Rouses Markets and Produce for Kids donated $10,000 to Feeding America
Rouses Markets CEO Donny Rouse named to AWG Board of Directors
Go behind the scenes with Rouses Markets and Feed the Second Line
Rouses Produce Manager Josh Smith wins Retail Produce Award
In September 2020, we partnered with local TV stations to help victims of Hurricane Laura
In April 2020, we donated truckloads of food to support the food banks
In March 2020, we helped local restaurants sell their food in in our stores
In December 2019, Rouses built the World’s Largest Avocado Display
In October 2019, Rouses opened its first college-themed store in Thibodaux
Rouses World Championship Crawfish Eating Contest returns
In May 2019, Rouses opens it’s 8th store in Lower Alabama
In April 2019, Donny Rouse announced location for new store support office
In March 2019, Rouses opens first store in New Iberia
In December 2018, Rouses Is The Shelby Report Of The Southeast’s Retailer Of The Year
In September 2018, Rouses opens first of two stores in Calcasieu Parish
In April 2018, Rouses Markets opens store in West Mobile
In March 2018, Country Music Superstar John Rich visits and launches Redneck Riviera Whiskey at Rouses.
In March 2018, Rouses rolls out ready-to-cook Meal Kits
In March 2018, Rouses announced a new store in Orange Beach
In March 2018, Rouses begins grocery delivery
In February 2018, Rouses offers 20 new Eat Right to go options by The Daily Comet
In January 2018, Rouses Markets to be “Launch Customer” for EAST’s Redneck Riviera Whiskey
In January 2018, Rouses Markets’ Baton Rouge Revival and Rouses Denham Springs named Progressive Grocer Store of the Month
In January 2018, Rouses Markets Opens Its 55th Store by The Shelby Report
In October 2017, Rouses to open 44,000-square-foot store near Covington
In September 2017, Rouses to open new supermarket in west Mobile
In July 2017, Rouses Markets Signs Agreement with the Saints as Official Supermarket of the Black-And-Gold
In June 2017, Rouses again wins The Times of Acadiana’s Best Supermarket in Acadiana Award
In May 2017, Rouses announces plans for 55^th store at Bluebonnet Village in Baton Rouge
In February 2017, Rouses is named the Most Popular Grocery Store in Louisiana by Business Insider
In January 2017, Rouses is again recognized as Best Supermarket in New Orleans Magazine’s Tops of the Town Readers Poll
In November 2016, Steve Black is named new president and COO of Rouses Markets
In October 2016, the company acquires nine LeBlanc’s Food Stores
In October 2016, Rouse Markets again wins Best Supermarket in Terrebonne and Lafourche in the Houma Courier and Thibodaux Daily Comet Readers’ Choice Polls
In October 2016, Rouses in Denham Springs, LA, reopens after historic flooding
In August 2016, Rouses is named Gambit’s Best Supermarket in New Orleans for nineth year in a row
In April 2016, Epicurious names Rouses Markets The Best Grocery Store In America
In April 2016, the first Rouses Market in Ponchatoula, LA, opens
In October 2015, the New Orleans Pelicans names Rouses Markets Official Grocer
In March 2015, Denham Springs, LA, gets a new Rouses Markets
In October 2014, a second Rouses Market opens in Lafayette, LA
In October 2014, Gretna, LA, gets a new Rouses Market
In February 2014, Rouses wins first Nappie Reader’s Choice Best Supermarket in Lower Alabama Award by the Lagniappe Weekly newspaper in Mobile, AL
In February 2014, Rouses Markets opens five new stores in Lower Alabama
In April 2013, Rouses “Roots on the Rooftop” is named one of the top urban farms in the world
In April 2013, Rouses Market is first recognized as the Best Supermarket on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by readers of the Mississippi Sun Herald
In February 2012, Rouses is named one of the Top 50 Independent Retailers

News & Media

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