Members of seven Southern California food workers unions, including San Diego’s, will vote June 24 on whether to authorize a strike against three major grocery chains, it was announced Monday via social media. Potentially targeted are Albertsons, Kroger-owned Ralphs and Albertsons-owned Vons — which took major losses in the last [...]
Costco isn't jumping into the grocery pickup game any time soon. In response to an earnings-call question from RBC Capital Markets' Scot Ciccarelli about whether Costco had any plans to jump on the pickup trend like Walmart has, CFO Richard Galanti threw cold water on the idea. He said that [...]
Maria Alessio loved working for Walgreens Boots Alliance, especially because of the pharmacy chain’s benefits. She decided to retire in last fall at age 61 because she could no longer take standing all day filling prescriptions. She and her fellow pharmacists traveled to Italy to celebrate. Then, days after she [...]
Health care is moving closer to patients. Drugstores are expanding the care and support they offer, and telemedicine is bringing doctors and therapists to the family room couch as the system shifts to help people stay healthy and attract customers who want convenience. CVS Health offered the latest example on [...]
The cost of many popular prescription drugs has increased substantially in the U.S. in the past six years, and the trend may continue if bold bipartisan action isn’t taken, according to a study published Friday. The study, in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a substantial industry-wide rise in insurer [...]
Costco Wholesale Corp. kept sales on the upswing in its fiscal 2019 third quarter as per-share earnings hit the high end of Wall Street’s estimates. For the 12-week quarter ended May 12, net sales rose 7.4% to $33.96 billion from $31.62 billion a year earlier, Costco said late Thursday. Membership [...]
Grocery shopping is completely different than it was 50 years ago. Fresh groceries and meal kits can now be dropped off at your doorstep. Retailers are redesigning their warehouses for online shopping. Robots adorned with googly eyes alert staff of spills. What’s next for the future of food shopping? Meet [...]
At 6:30 a.m., four of five Gordon family members are roaming around their suburban Sacramento house — if you count only the humans. There are also four dogs, a bunny, a tortoise, chickens, ducks, goats and a not-so-miniature miniature pig named Squiggy. Hilary Gordon is discussing the day's schedule with [...]
Despite Amazon.com’s publicity push to promote price cuts at Whole Foods, the chain remains the highest price grocer in the land, according to a new study by Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BOA). The study, which included the round of price cuts announced on April 3 that the grocer claimed [...]
The union that represents workers at Southern California’s three major supermarket chains on Friday strongly criticized the grocers’ first comprehensive contract offer, calling it “unacceptable” and making its first veiled threat of a possible work stoppage. Representatives of Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons have been in talks with the United Food and Commercial [...]