• Though it closed way back in March, it appears that most of the milk and cheese products were left behind to rot in a Fresh Harvest Market. Think about that smell today as temperatures head for the upper 90s. [Uptown Update]
• Groupon might help if you’re feeling the pinch: The coupon giant is getting into the groceries game. [Chicago Business]
• Remember how we told you we’re all literally eating crap? Well, that’s also the reason all these people in Europe are sick with E. coli. [Slate]
• Good news for the antisocial: More and more restaurants are offering online ordering, letting customers completely bypass all human interaction. [NPR]
• The poor Cheesecake Factory is one of the chains most strongly affected by higher gas prices. Chipotle and P.F. Chang’s also feel the pain. [NRN]
• Sorry, everyone, high food prices are here to stay until at least 2012, says a U.N. agency. Developing nations will continue to be hardest hit. [AFP]
• And in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, governments are all, forget (largely imported) groceries, plant a garden! [Business Week]
