Union leader predicts strike at Stop & Shop

The leader of at least one union local involved in a months-long contract dispute with Stop & Shop believes workers will likely have to walk off the job to secure...

Workers And King Soopers Both Want To Return To Negotiations, Avoid Strike

Company negotiators for King Soopers, City Market and their workers are hoping to return to the table to stave off a potential strike. UFCW Local 7 members authorized a strike last...

Rite Aid slashes 400 corporate jobs

Rite Aid on Tuesday announced it's cutting about 400 full-time positions, or more than 20% of the corporate positions at its "headquarters and across the field organization," according to a...

Kroger ends its unmanned-vehicle grocery delivery pilot program in Arizona

Supermarket giant Kroger said it soon will end a pilot program in which more than 2,000 grocery deliveries were made in self-driving vehicles from a store in Scottsdale, Arizona. The program,...

What We Know About The Impending King Soopers, City Market Worker Strike

Employees of Colorado King Soopers and City Market stores begin voting today on their first strike authorization since 1996. That means around 12,000 unionized butchers, cashiers and shelf-stockers might soon walk...

Cannabis call centre workers vote to unionize

Ontario Cannabis Store call centre workers have voted unanimously to unionize in a drive that put fair hours, scheduling and job security at centre stage, according to the United Food...

Why Amazon's New Grocery Ambitions Could Be a Mistake

Amazon.com has been angling for a piece of the $660 billion grocery industry for more than a decade. In 2007, the company launched Amazon Fresh, an e-commerce grocery delivery service, in its...

Five Stop & Shop unions in southern New England authorize leaders to call strike

More than 31,000 Stop & Shop workers in southern New England have authorized their labor leaders to call for a strike as the sides prepare to resume talks for new...

Groceries, union hold first meetings for new labor contract

Southern California’s three major supermarket chains and the union that represents store workers held their first meetings this week to discuss a new contract for some 60,000 employees. None of the...

Amazon plans to open dozens of grocery stores in U.S. cities

Amazon.com Inc. plans to open dozens of grocery stores in U.S. cities, The Wall Street Journal reported, a move that would expand the retail and technology giant's grocery footprint beyond...