Safeway, King Soopers workers reject contract

A union representing Colorado grocery workers says members statewide have voted to reject the latest contract offers from Safeway and the Kroger Co.'s King Soopers and City Market chains.

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Safeway: Colo. workers' contract extended again

Safeway says its unionized Colorado grocery workers have agreed to extend their labor contract again until June 26.

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Safeway, workers agree to continue labor talks

With the threat of a strike looming, Safeway agreed to resume negotiations with its union workers a day after they authorized a strike, a company spokeswoman said Sunday.

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6 Web sites to help you slash food costs

Head to the Web for countless tips on how to cut back on grocery spending. Be sure to check the Web sites of your favorite grocery store, and the sites of your favorite products.

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Family Finance: Grocery spending a moving target

When Carla Chery sat down to plan her household budget, she simply calculated the average she typically spent to feed her family of four.

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Caller Threatens Grocery Store

An anonymous caller made a bomb threat against a grocery store, demanding that the store wire money to his bank account and ordering everyone in the store to disrobe. No one was injured and no money was paid, police said.

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Woman Cited for Exposing Herself in Store

A 28-year-old woman has been cited for lewdness for exposing herself inside a store. The woman was riding a motorized cart inside Lin's Market Place on Thursday with her pants around her ankles and not wearing underwear.

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Organic-food shoppers are making a rude discovery at their grocers' refrigerated display case. "White Wave Silk Vanilla Soymilk is no longer Organic," declares a hand-lettered sign at the two Sunflower Shoppes in Tarrant County.

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Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths are being blamed for Australians paying the fastest growing prices for groceries in the world.

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How do these doors stay open, and the grocery markets are closing? What's wrong with this pictrure?

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Threatening messages with pictures of guns hang at the entrance of a west Jackson business where a suspected burglar was shot to death Sunday.

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A Boxford mother has earned the title of "queen of coupons," as she has learned to feed her family of six for less than $10 a week. Kathy Spencer said the trick is buying in bulk when items are on sale and using coupons to bring down the cost.

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Fun at the Market

I am one of the odd folks who enjoy the weekly or so trip to the market to food shop. I attribute this to a love of cooking and food as well as having what has to be the most fun market in the world as my "corner store"--Trader Joe's.

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POLL - What Changes Have You Made in Your Diet in These Hard Times?

In our household we don't eat steak anymore because it costs too much. I wonder how your eating habits have changed?

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Bashas' food store - an Arizona based chain - unveiled extreme price cuts on over 10,000 national and private label brands, as well as a "consumer stimulus package" that lets people enter a contest for a year of free groceries.

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A possible salmonella outbreak has led a California Pistachio company to recall a ton of its products due to possible contamination. Now the FDA is looking into it more, but in the meantime is warning consumers not to eat pistachio nuts.

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Ray's Food Place has launched an eco-friendly consumer incentive program that rewards its shoppers when they reuse grocery bags from the store, a small, yet important step on the road to saving our planet.

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The familiar red packages of Archway cookies once again are on the shelves of local grocery store Hawkins Market.

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Texas police have discovered thousands of pounds of marijuana inside an 18-wheeler disguised to look like a grocery store's truck.

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1. "Don't buy anything with more than five ingredients (too processed), with ingredients you can't pronounce (too processed), with anything artificial (tastes bad), with a cartoon on it (direct marketing to children), or with a health claim (misleading)," says Nestle.

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Cost-cutting, solid sales, and positive free cash flow contributed to a successful fiscal first quarter for Whole Foods Market, and the retailer's stock jumped 34.5 percent on news that it beat Wall Street estimates.

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Eat Healthy For Cheaper

Granted I am writing from the perspective of one on an EXTREMELY low budget, but some of the changes that I have implemented around my home have reduced our bills and made my family healthier.

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A German pensioner who had fallen on hard times devised a bizarre plan to force money out of the discount food chain Lidl. But the elderly man was tracked down by detectives and arrested.

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Woolworths says it is the first national grocery retailer to introduce comparative unit pricing, allowing customers to judge which products are best value for money.

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OLYMPIA, Wash., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- An Olympia, Wash., business man has threatened to expand his adult book store into a sex emporium if he is not granted permission to build a grocery store.

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By applying a mixture of crop breeding, soil management, irrigation and diversification, agro-science experts are helping subsistence farmers to cope with climate change and buck the trend in neighbouring African countries. More Articles

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This town's granite companies shut down years ago and even the rowdy bars and porno theater that once inspired the nickname "Little Chicago" have gone.

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Some lawmakers and consumer advocates say loopholes will let meatpackers blur the distinction between foreign and domestic meat.

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"It disgusts me that the people who can least afford to buy the food have to pay more money than everyone else does," Barnaby said. That's a serious accusation and the Problem Solvers probed further...

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You work while you're young to provide for the day when you may not be able (or willing) to work any longer. If you don't save enough, you may find yourself unable to lead the life you want in retirement.

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Our current credit crisis exists because everyone involved was looking for easy money. They wanted to get rich quickly. Banks see perpetual borrowers as an evergreen revenue source. Borrowers look upon credit as "free" money.

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