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  1. coronavirus news
    More Than 40 Grocery Workers Have Died From COVID-19And 1,500 more around the United States have tested positive for the virus.
    By Nikita Richardson
  2. the chain gang
    Kroger Wants You to Please Leave Your Gun at Home on Your Next Grocery RunThe Ohio-based chain joins Walmart in the effort to keep guns out of its stores.
    By Nikita Richardson
  3. crimes
    American Hero Banned From Walmart for Best Reason Ever“ … drinking wine from a Pringles can for several hours while riding on an electric cart.”
    By Nikita Richardson
  4. coffee wars
    Companies Are Locked in a Heated Battle to Produce the Best So-so CoffeeWalmart has partnered with a third-wave roaster.
    By Chris Crowley
  5. grocery wars
    Walmart Will Launch Same-Day Grocery Delivery in NYCThe next best thing to actually being allowed to build a store in the city.
    By Clint Rainey
  6. grocery wars
    Ongoing Price Wars Give Grocery Shoppers Lowest Thanksgiving Prices in 5 YearsJust about everything is cheaper this year, from turkeys on down.
    By Clint Rainey
  7. grocery wars
    Walmart Is Making Punch-Flavored Pickles to Compete With AmazonThe war over groceries moves to a “secret” Arkansas food lab.
    By Clint Rainey
  8. lawsuits
    Walmart Has to Pay $7.5 Million to Shopper Who Broke His Hip Buying a WatermelonThe produce-aisle incident left him walker-bound.
    By Clint Rainey
  9. grocery wars
    Walmart Wants Your House Keys So It Can Store Groceries Directly in the FridgeA “convenient” service that happens while you’re “at work” or “off doing other things.”
    By Clint Rainey
  10. bad news
    Walmart’s Salmon That Funds North Korea Could Be in Supply Chain for Over a YearWalmart, Aldi, and others imported over 2,000 tons of the tainted seafood this year alone.
    By Clint Rainey
  11. grocery wars
    Walmart Opened an Organic Fast-food Restaurant Inside One of Its SupermarketsThe company that sells Larry the Cable Guy chips has entered the “slow food for fast people” business.
    By Clint Rainey
  12. grocery wars
    Here’s Why German Discounter Lidl Will Escalate America’s Grocery-Price WarsIt plans 330 stores that offer food at up to 50 percent below rivals’ prices.
    By Clint Rainey
  13. recalls
    Walmart Recalls Salad Mixes After Dead Bat Discovered InsideThe CDC can’t rule out rabies because of the animal’s “deteriorated condition.”
    By Clint Rainey
  14. peeps show
    Walmart Will Unleash Peeps OreosIn mid-February, before real Peeps are even in stores yet.
    By Clint Rainey
  15. news you can booze
    Lawsuit Says Walmart’s New Craft-Beer Brand Is a ‘Wholesale Fiction’Trouble Brewing is mass-produced by Genesee and meets “none of the criteria” for craft beer.
    By Clint Rainey
  16. horrible products
    Walmart Yanks ‘Got Retard?’ Coffee Mugs From Its WebsiteIt also decided shoppers can do without a “Got Hitler?” option.
    By Clint Rainey
  17. food waste
    Walmart Stores Caught Trashing Food That Hasn’t Even Expired YetThe CBC dug through the company’s trash in Canada and found items that still “appeared to be fresh.”
    By Clint Rainey
  18. half baked
    Walmart Workers Refuse to Make ‘Racist’ Cake for Police Officer’s RetirementThe officer’s friends are now demanding a boycott.
    By Clint Rainey
  19. deep-fried everything
    Walmart Rolls Out a Whole Restaurant Modeled After the Texas State FairIt features a 45-item menu celebrating the “treats families enjoy ever year.”
    By Clint Rainey
  20. let’s roll … back prices
    Walmart Horrifies Shoppers With 9/11-Themed Soda Display“We will never forget” is about right.
    By Clint Rainey
  21. sweet jesus!
    America Reacts to Walmart’s Deep-Fried Twinkies in a Box“I think it is safe to say this is peak western civilization. Was a good run, folks.”
    By Clint Rainey
  22. food waste
    Nearly 150,000 People Have Signed a Petition Demanding Walmart Sell Ugly Produce#WhatTheFork is getting harder for the country’s largest grocer to ignore.
    By Clint Rainey
  23. Sweet
    Now You Can Gorge on Deep-Fried Twinkies in the Comfort of Your Own HomeHostess has given the world a prepackaged version, and it’s available at Walmart.
    By Clint Rainey
  24. Recalls
    42 Frozen-Food Brands Recalled Over Listeria FearsThe list includes 358 products sold under 42 different brands.
    By Clint Rainey
  25. Lawsuits
    Lawsuit Accuses Walmart of Defrauding Shoppers With Fake ParmesanThe company’s “100% Grated Parmesan” allegedly contains as much as 10 percent wood pulp.
    By Clint Rainey
  26. Takes the Cake
    Get Ready for Two More Patti LaBelle Desserts at WalmartThe supermarket hopes “Patti cakes” will go as viral as her sweet-potato pie.
    By Clint Rainey
  27. Taste-Test
    Taste-Testing Patti Labelle’s Viral PieThere’s some nutmeg blowback, but it can compete with any fancy shop’s version.
    By Grub Street
  28. Crazes
    The Black Market Is Booming for Walmart’s Patti LaBelle PiesLucky eBay users are selling the massively popular pies with an 1,000 percent markup.
    By Clint Rainey
  29. The Chain Gang
    Starbucks Will Now Try to Solve America’s Unemployment ProblemCEO Howard Schultz is spearheading a multi-company initiative to hire 100,00 young adults over the next three years.
    By Alan Sytsma
  30. Horrible Things
    Horrific Details Continue to Emerge About Southeast Asia’s Fishing SlavesLike working 24-hour shifts, sleeping on beds of dead fish, and watching others jump overboard.
    By Clint Rainey
  31. Drama
    Walmart Refused to Make a Confederate-Flag Cake, Happily Made an ISIS OneThe company says that the employee had no clue it was a terrorist flag.
    By Clint Rainey
  32. Awful Things
    Chances Are Disgustingly High That You’ve Eaten Fish Caught by SlavesAn investigation led back to companies like Walmart, Kroger, and Sysco.
    By Clint Rainey
  33. Sweetened Deals
    Walmart Told Customers a Fake ‘Sugar Tax’ Was Making Their Coke CostThe “tax” equaled the amount discounted by an ad.
    By Clint Rainey
  34. Recalls
    Kraft Recalled Some Velveeta Because It Wasn’t Fake EnoughWalmart shoppers in the Midwest, check your pasteurized prepared cheese product.
    By Clint Rainey
  35. Awful Things
    Guardian Says Shrimp Sold at Walmart and Costco Comes From Slave LaborA ‘Guardian’ investigation ties shrimp at several major retailers to fishmeal produced on Thai slave ships.
    By Clint Rainey
  36. Health
    Coming Soon to Walmart: Cheap Organic FoodThe products will cost the same as non-organic goods.
    By Sierra Tishgart
  37. Tomatoland
    Walmart Agrees to Pay Florida Tomato Growers a Penny More Per PoundThe retailer will give an extra penny per pound, to benefit the Immokalee.
    By Belle Cushing
  38. Food Drives
    Ohio Walmart Holds Food Drive for Employees Who Can’t Afford ThanksgivingIt’s not supposed to be like this, employees say.
    By Hugh Merwin
  39. Lawsuits
    Dead Rat, Cash Money Found in Grocery Store FoodA dead rat in frozen lemonade would mess you up, too.
    By Hugh Merwin
  40. Sunday Twinkie Sunday
    Here’s a Look at the Brand-New ‘First Batch’ Twinkies BoxSure to be a collector’s item, maybe, someday.
    By Hugh Merwin
  41. Paula Deen
    Walmart Drops Paula Deen, TooThe chain is just the latest company to cut ties with the troubled Southern celebrity chef.
    By Alan Sytsma
  42. Make It Stop
    Paula Deen–Branded Butter Sounds Absolutely DeliciousGMO-friendly, y’all.
    By Hugh Merwin
  43. Leftovers
    Lou Amdur Teams Up With Night+Market; Plan Check Opening Fairfax LocationThe owner of Lou Wine Bar will pair vino with seven courses of Thai street food.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  44. Good Buy
    Wal-Mart May Buy Hostess, Bring Back TwinkiesPhew. We were really worried for a minute there.
    By Hugh Merwin
  45. Rinse Before Using
    Living Frog Found Inside Bag of Wal-Mart Salad Greens Speaks OutA Florida woman says her bag of mixed greens contained a pink frog.
    By Hugh Merwin
  46. Off the Market
    Windsor Terrace Is Officially Supermarket-LessUgh, Walgreens.
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  47. Beef
    War Brewing Over Chinatown’s Wal-MartA local community development advocate cites the brand’s bad record as an employer.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  48. Grocery Wars
    Downtown Feels Shunned by Whole Foods and Trader Joe’sMeanwhile, other big box grocers are wisely moving in on the turf.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  49. Mediavore
    Weed Workers Join United Food and Commercial Union; Kegger Cup Company Rakes ItThe 35,000 member-strong union promises to put its weight behind keep medical marijuana dispensaries open.
  50. Mediavore
    Deceased Guido’s Employee Died of Respiratory Infection; City Council FightsEarlier reports suggested the staffer had been shot, then beaten, to death, causing much undue alarm.
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