Pharmacists at Ralphs’ supermarket locations across Southern California have rejected the company’s contract offer and authorized its leaders to call a strike. A tentative agreement between Ralphs, Albertsons and Vons pharmacists represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers was reached Sept. 17 and was pending ratification by some 600 pharmacists [...]
Chipotle doesn’t serve burritos, it “provides food with integrity.” Facebook doesn’t sell advertisements, it “bring[s] the world closer together.” WeWork doesn’t sublease office spaces, it “elevates the world’s consciousness” (and it might not do that for much longer). Why do these for-profit companies insist on selling themselves as such do-gooders? [...]
Stop & Shop still feels the sting of an 11-day strike in New England in April, with executives of the supermarket chain’s Dutch parent company telling industry analysts Wednesday it has lost customers and increased sales are coming from other subsidiaries. Ahold Delhaize, the Netherlands-based retail giant, posted U.S. sales [...]
John Paul Coonrod had a banana problem. The only grocery store in his 1,500-person hometown in central Illinois had shut its doors, and Mr. Coonrod, a local lawyer, was racing to get a community-run market off the ground. He had found space in an old shoe store, raised $85,000 from [...]
Walmart is getting out of the vaping business, but still sells cigarettes. It is working to reduce plastic packaging for the products on its shelves, but continues to use plastic grocery bags in its checkout lines. After a gunman killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso this summer, [...]
Those five bags of groceries may take longer to get to you this week, if drivers for grocery delivery service Instacart succeed in mounting a three-day “strike” from November 3 to November 5 to demand better pay. The quotation marks are because the drivers, known as shoppers in Instacart parlance, [...]
Amazon tops other U.S. online retailers on price by an average of 20% across 16 key product categories, but in grocery it’s Kroger — not Walmart — that stands as the No. 2 price competitor, a study by Profitero finds. The e-commerce analytics firm’s “Price Wars: A Study of Price [...]
Shoppers across Utah are starting to voice concerns about a proposed tax increase to food at the grocery store. The latest tax plan unveiled on Friday by Rep. Francis Gibson, R-Mapleton, and Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, would nearly triple Utah's sales tax on groceries, helping the state raise approximately $250 [...]
Early in 2019, Kroger’s was listed by a top retail research firm as the fourth-largest grocer in the world. Yet, the year that began with such a proud status, has seen the brand endure a difficult period in the US. The company announced plans to lay off hundreds of employees [...]
When I was in my 20s and visiting friends who had left New York, I was often taken to supermarkets as a cultural tourist. In Minneapolis I was introduced to Lunds (now known as Lunds & Byerly’s), which had been around in various formations since the early 20th century. There [...]