Amazon Begins Rollout of Pay-by-Palm at Whole Foods Near HQ
Amazon is rolling out pay-by-palm technology at some Whole Foods grocery stores near its headquarters to make paying quicker and more convenient.
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Police: 1 Killed, 2 Wounded in Shooting at NY Grocery Store
An employee suspected of shooting three workers at an office inside a Long Island grocery store Tuesday, killing a manager, was arrested hours after fleeing, police said.
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Websites Not Bound by ADA Accessibility Rules, 11th Circuit Finds
The ruling vacates a federal judge’s decision that the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain’s website violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by being inaccessible to visually impaired people who use screen-reader software.
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Victims of Colorado Grocery Store Shooting Identified
Authorities continue to look for the motive for the nation’s second mass shooting in a week and the seventh so far in 2021.
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Shooter Opens Fire on Colorado Grocery Store, Killing 10
Police responded to an active shooter incident Monday at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, a college town 25 miles north of Denver.
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Hazard Pay
Despite no luck so far blocking a Covid hazard pay ordinance in Southern California, the California Grocers Association sued the San Francisco Bay Area cities of San Jose and Daly City to block similar ordinances there.
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MEPs Threaten Brexit Deal Veto Over N. Ireland Checks
The ratification of the U.K.-EU trade deal was under threat on Thursday after key ministers of the European Parliament said they would reject the pact if Britain pushed through with a plan to delay checks on food going to Northern Ireland.
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Amazon Opens First UK Checkout-Free Grocery Store in London
Amazon has opened a cashier-free supermarket in London, its first bricks and mortar expansion outside the U.S. as the company bets on strong demand for its contactless shops.
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Los Angeles Mandates Hazard Pay for Grocery, Drug Store Workers
The city’s emergency ordinance requires large grocery and drug stores to pay their employees an extra $5 per hour for the elevated health risks they face during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Federal Judge Denies Grocers’ Bid to Block Hazard Pay For Workers
An ordinance approved by the Long Beach, California, City Council provides an extra $4 an hour in premium pay for grocery store workers who face greater health risks in the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Judge to Rule on Grocers’ Bid to Block Hazard Pay For Workers
An ordinance approved by the Long Beach, California, City Council provides an extra $4 an hour in hazard pay for grocery store workers who face greater health risks in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreGraham Crackers
A federal court in New York ruled that a class action against Whole Foods relating to its alleged mislabeling of graham crackers may proceed. A woman claims she was deceived by a box of “Honey Graham Crackers” because graham is a type of whole-wheat flour, so she believed the crackers contained more of that flour than non-whole-grain flour. She also thought they were sweetened with honey rather than sugar.
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UK Supermarkets Caught in Plastic Packaging: Study
Britain’s major supermarket chains remain big users of plastic packaging that blights the environment, despite efforts to cut down, according to a study published on Tuesday.
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Czechs Make Large Shops Sell Mostly Local Food
Czech lawmakers passed an amendment Wednesday ordering large shops to sell mostly Czech food as of next year, despite an expected backlash from partners in the European Union.
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IS Widow Convicted in Charlie Hebdo, Kosher Market Attacks
The fugitive widow of an Islamic State gunman and a man described as his logistician on Wednesday were convicted of terrorism charges in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 attacks in Paris against the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket.
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Locked-Down France Inches Toward ‘Black Friday’ Postponement
France’s government was working Friday to get supermarket chains and e-commerce platforms to agree to a week-long postponement of “Black Friday” promotions, responding to concerns that shops shuttered by the nation’s coronavirus lockdown are hemorrhaging business and could be hurt further if they miss out on the consumer splurge.
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Booksellers Prevail in French Row Over Covid Sales
French supermarkets, which remain open during a second coronavirus lockdown, will be barred from selling books, make-up and other goods found in smaller shops that have been forced to shut, the government said Monday.
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Mexico Sees Discrimination in Stores’ Coronavirus Measures
A Mexican government body warned grocery stores Thursday about complaints it has received alleging discrimination against the elderly and single-parent families due to coronavirus social-distancing measures.
Read moreCupcakes and Cheese
The Second Circuit upheld the dismissal of a putative class action brought by a man who claims Whole Foods systematically overcharged customers by selling chocolate cupcakes and cheeses that weighed less than their labels indicated.
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