Whole Foods Market California and two affiliates reached a $1.6 million deal Thursday to settle complaints from 22 district and city attorneys that they illegally handled and disposed of hazardous wasted across state lines.
Read moreWhole Foods Market investors urged the Fifth Circuit on Thursday to revive their securities fraud class action accusing the grocer of inflating its share price by counting revenue from mislabeled and overpriced products.
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(CN) – SuperValu Inc. shareholders filed a class action challenging United Natural Foods’ plan to buy the grocery chain for
Read moreThe Vladimir Gusinsky Rev. Trust is lead plaintiff in a federal shareholder class action against directors who are selling Supervalu supermarkets to United Natural Foods for $32.50 a share or $2.9 billion.
Read moreRite Aid and the grocer Albertsons called off an agreement to become a single company with the deal facing shaky prospects in a shareholder vote.
Read moreA Los Angeles Police officer’s bullet fatally struck a Trader Joe’s employee Saturday during a shootout with a man who led police on a pursuit and fired at officers as he ran into the grocery store, the LAPD police chief revealed Tuesday.
Read moreOfficials who administer food stamps in the District of Columbia must divert resources to improve how the agency processes applications, a federal judge ruled Thursday
Read moreThe EEOC sued Albertson’s in federal court for telling Latino employees they cannot speak Spanish even when on break, or with Spanish-speaking customers, in San Diego Federal Court.
Read moreA woman slips in the aisle. Who, if anyone is to blame: the staff who did not sweep up right away or the customers playing soccer with ice cubes?
Read moreThe European Union executive is seeking to protect farmers by imposing fines on retailers and supermarket chains using unfair trade practices.
Read moreAn armed man took hostages in a supermarket in southern France on Friday, killing two and injuring about a dozen others, police said. He had earlier opened fire on officers nearby.
Read moreEli Zabar, an heir to one of the royal families of New York City delicatessens, claims in court that his Upper East Side landlord is ousting tenants through a pattern of harassment and neglect.
Read moreBritish supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as $5.6 billion in compensation payments.
Read moreAn Orange County, California, man sued Heineken and The Kroger Co. Friday, claiming he became violently ill after drinking from a beer can with two geckos inside.
Read moreThe husband of a woman stabbed to death in a Shaw’s Supermarket is suing the chain for failing to protect against what he describes as a “pattern of violent crimes against customers.”
Read moreOverturning the jail sentence given to a woman who called a grocery store worker a “fat ugly bitch,” the Connecticut Supreme Court found no “fighting words” in the outburst.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Tuesday that the website of the Winn-Dixie supermarkets chain violates the ADA because it’s inaccessible to visually-impaired individuals.
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