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Grocery Stores

  1. coronavirus
    Grocery Stores Are Designating ‘Seniors-Only’ Shopping TimesBut some experts express concern about the idea.
    By Chris Crowley
  2. probably closing
    Red Hook Fairway Could Close As Soon As MayEmployees were reportedly told the store might close in four to six months.
    By Chris Crowley
  3. grocery wars
    Report Says Fairway Will Close. Fairway Says It Won’t.Instead, the chain “expects to soon announce a value maximizing transaction.”
    By Chris Crowley
  4. grocery wars
    Whole Foods Is Raising Its Prices Back UpAmazon has also slashed the grocer’s inventory.
    By Chris Crowley
  5. openings
    A ‘Zero-Waste’ Grocery Store Is Open in BrooklynPrecycle is a new shop with a mission.
    By Emma Orlow
  6. boycotts
    Kroger Facing Backlash After Closing Stores in Minority Communities“It’s boycott time.”
    By Clint Rainey
  7. meal kits
    Blue Apron Plans to Sell Its Meal Kits in Grocery StoresIt’s in “active conversations” with supermarkets.
    By Clint Rainey
  8. kale sales
    NYC’s First Whole Foods 365 Opening Featured Long Lines and Lots of Cowbells“Honestly, it’s better than all of the Whole Foods stores in Manhattan.”
    By Rachel Sugar
  9. video feed
    Piggly Wiggly Driver’s Marathon-Length Parking Disaster Is a Fitting End to 2017Who hasn’t wanted to repeatedly plow a semi into something this year?
    By Clint Rainey
  10. grocery wars
    Will Amazon Kill Whole Foods’ Low-Priced 365 Chain?One of the only six locations that ever opened just closed for good.
    By Clint Rainey
  13. shopping
    These Burgeoning Supermarkets Are a Mirror of Immigrant New YorkOne-stop shopping for the city’s eclectic appetites.
    By Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite
  14. grocery wars
    Amazon Merger Is Bringing Whole Foods the Most Shoppers It’s Had in YearsDespite the fact that prices really aren’t any lower overall.
    By Clint Rainey
  15. shopping guide
    Here Are the Whole Foods Products You Can Find Right Now on AmazonThe interesting assemblage includes ice cream, frozen pizza, and lots of canned beans.
    By Clint Rainey
  16. grocery stores
    How Amazon Can Help Whole Foods Fix ItselfThe tech giant has the chance to help the grocery chain get back to its original mission, while still keeping an eye on the future.
    By Mark Bittman
  17. grocery wars
    Amazon Is Reportedly Planning to Cut Jobs at Whole FoodsInsiders say Bezos is looking into “using technology to eliminate cashiers.”
    By Clint Rainey
  18. grocery wars
    Whole Foods CEO Is Ready to Fight Those ‘Greedy Bastard’ Activist InvestorsHe also sees similarities with the Ringwraiths from The Lord of the Rings.
    By Clint Rainey
  19. grocery wars
    Whole Foods Says It’s Actually Lowering PricesIt’s centralizing purchasing to bring costs down, but that could limit selection.
    By Clint Rainey
  20. grocery wars
    Investors Want Whole Foods to Sell the Company to Amazon or KrogerWhole Foods’ nose-diving stock has lost almost half its value since 2013.
    By Clint Rainey
  21. recalls
    Edamame Yanked From Supermarkets in 33 States Over Listeria FearsThe recall mostly affects sushi bars inside grocery stores.
    By Clint Rainey
  22. hard times
    Restaurants’ Rising Prices Are Driving More People to Eat at HomeA third of Americans are dining out less often than they were three months ago.
    By Clint Rainey
  25. food waste
    U.K. Supermarket Chain’s New Delivery Trucks Will Run Entirely on Food WasteWaitrose says the vehicles can run 500 miles on biomethane, a by-product of rotting food.
    By Clint Rainey
  26. surpluses
    Analysts Say Food Prices Have Tumbled to a ‘Completely Unprecedented’ LowA dozen eggs for $1 and buy-one-get-one steaks are signs of “irrational pricing.”
    By Clint Rainey
  27. closeout
    Another Beloved New York Grocery Chain Is Filing for BankruptcyThis time it’s Garden of Eden.
    By Clint Rainey
  28. Grocery Wars
    Report: The D’Agostino Grocery Chain Is for SaleKey Food is rumored to be interested.
    By Clint Rainey
  29. Bones to Pick
    Man Claims He Found a Bone in His Whole Foods Trail Mix“I can only imagine what other body parts I was eating while consuming that bag.”
    By Clint Rainey
  30. Lawsuits
    A Judge Threw Out the Lawsuit Accusing Whole Foods of OverchargingBecause the customers who filed it didn’t save their receipts.
    By Clint Rainey
  31. Animal Welfare
    All of Trader Joe’s Eggs Will Be Cage-Free in 9 YearsThe announcement follows a petition that went viral and hit 100,000 supporters.
    By Clint Rainey
  32. News
    Snow Collapsed the Roof at This New Jersey Trader Joe’sThe company is trying to move its 160 employees to other area stores.
    By Clint Rainey
  33. The Hunger Games
    Panicked D.C. Residents Clear Out Supermarket’s Cheese AisleIt’s a real struggle to survive out there.
    By Clint Rainey
  34. Minimum Wage
    Will Labor Laws Kill Food Co-ops As We Know Them?They fear their volunteer model will be targeted by labor officials.
    By Clint Rainey
  37. Price Check
    Whole Foods to Pay $500,000 for Overcharging NYC Customers [Updated]It refused to pay the $1.5 million the city originally demanded.
    By Clint Rainey
  38. Bad Investment
    Whole Foods Shares Have Dropped Nearly 50 PercentInvestors are “almost uniformly negative on the company.”
    By Clint Rainey
  39. Drama
    Whole Foods Says It Will Stop Selling Food Made by PrisonersAnother knock against the grocer.
    By Clint Rainey
  40. Comebacks
    Hydrox Cookies Will Return to Stores This MonthThe “original Oreo” is coming back very soon.
    By Sierra Tishgart
  41. News You Can Booze
    Target Might Try Letting People Drink Booze While They ShopThe company has applied for a liquor license in Chicago to test the idea.
    By Clint Rainey
  42. Lawsuits
    Shareholders Are Now Suing Whole Foods for Overcharging CustomersA federal lawsuit claims the chain broke SEC laws by misrepresenting its value to investors.
    By Clint Rainey
  43. Price Check
    Whole Foods Executives Admit to Overcharging Customers“Straight up, we made some mistakes.”
    By Chris Crowley
  44. Legal Action
    Here Come the Whole Foods LawsuitsThe first was filed a day after New York announced an investigation into the grocer’s prices.
    By Chris Crowley
  45. Price Check
    Whole Foods Under Investigation for ‘Routinely’ OverchargingThe high-end chain’s food might literally be too expensive.
    By Alan Sytsma
  46. Price Cutters
    Whole Foods Struggles to Move Past ‘Whole Paycheck’ ReputationCoupons! Flash sales! Buy-one-get-one free-range chicken!
    By Lauren Elkies Schram
  49. Paper or Plastic
    Cobble Hill Grocery Store Pits Celery Stalks Against Incoming J.CrewWe don’t need another J.Crew, they say.
    By Hugh Merwin
  50. Booze You Can Use
    Run For the Border: Cherry Hill Okays Booze Sales at Grocery Stores and Big-Box
    By Collin Keefe
  51. Empire Building
    Sahadi’s Makes Big Expansion PlansBrooklyn’s beloved Middle Eastern grocer will add 1,500 square feet.
    By Devra Ferst
  52. Gone Green
    Albertson’s Embraces Zero-Waste Program, Thwarts Freegan ActivismSupervalu, which owns the ubiquitous supermarket chain, plans to divert 90% of its waste away from landfills at 40 stores.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  53. Grocery Wars
    Labor Protests Hit Vons, Albertson’s, and Ralph’sIt’s not quite a strike…just yet.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  54. Mediavore
    Food Poisoning Strikes Selena Gomez, Jennfer Hudson, and The Playboy JazzCertain locations of the pie-making chain close in the middle of lunch service while customers are still eating.
  55. Mediavore
    Red Bull Killer Found Not Guilty; What’s In a $1,200 Kebab?Gold leaf and champagne help boost the price of Andy Bates’ ultra-luxe Middle Eastern offering.
  56. Mediavore
    Gas Prices Affecting Food Choices; Bin Laden Death Speech Interrupts ANGRSome Angelenos spend more time at the food bank than the supermarket now that gas has risen way past four dollars a gallon.
  57. Mediavore
    VH1 Announces Famous Food; Free Dish at Cafe GratitudeHeidi Montag and Ashley Dupre will star in a new cable show that follows them opening a restaurant with some other reality dimwits.
  58. Mediavore
    Colonel Sanders Threatened; What Padma’s Baby EatsAn old letter is unearthed showing a death threat to the king of KFC.
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