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Every Neighborhood Needs a Mekelburg’s It’s a bar and a bakery and a grocer. And this weekend, it’s closing for good.
Delivery Apps Are Ruining Grocery Stores Shopping in a grocery store used to be fun; shopping in a grocery store that is now functionally a warehouse is definitively not.
By Rachel Sugar
grocery wars
Sept. 1, 2020
There’s a New Whole Foods in Brooklyn. You Can’t Go to It. The grocery chain has opened a new location that’s just for fulfilling online orders.
By Chris Crowley
Trader Joe’s Won’t Actually Change Its ‘Racist’ Product Names The grocer released a new statement contradicting its first response to an online petition criticizing branding like Trader Ming’s.
By Chris Crowley
crime scenes
July 29, 2020
What We Now Know About the Trader Joe’s Anti-Mask Assault One employee was sent to the hospital, according to someone who witnessed the attack.
By Chris Crowley
Trader Joe’s Says It Will Change Its ‘Racist’ Product Names An online petition was launched calling for the grocer to change branding of product lines like Trader Ming’s.
By Chris Crowley
coronavirus
Apr. 10, 2020
By Chris Crowley
grocery wars
Apr. 1, 2020
Dean & DeLuca Has Filed for Bankruptcy Protection The former gourmet grocer owes creditors nearly $275 million.
By Nikita Richardson
coronavirus
Mar. 27, 2020
The Union Square Trader Joe’s Has Reopened Stores in Chelsea, the Upper West Side, and Soho remain closed.
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
Mar. 23, 2020
Amazon Is Looking To Purchase 4 Fairway Stores The Seattle–based tech giant is eyeing two locations in New Jersey, one in Westchester, and a location in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
Mar. 10, 2020
By Nikita Richardson
Nation of Two-Buck Chuck Lovers Mourns the Death of Trader Joe “RIP Joe Coulombe, whose Trader Joe’s is one of the best ideas mass retailing has ever given us.”
By Alan Sytsma
grocery wars
Feb. 13, 2020
Wegmans Is Now Delivering Groceries to Manhattan The cult grocery chain will hop the East River with a little help from Instacart.
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
Feb. 10, 2020
By Hannah Howard
grocery wars
Jan. 23, 2020
Fairway Will Sell 5 Stores and File for Bankruptcy Protection The grocery chain is not going out of business, but it’s definitely in trouble.
By Chris Crowley
grocery wars
Jan. 22, 2020
Report Says Fairway Will Close. Fairway Says It Won’t. Instead, the chain “expects to soon announce a value maximizing transaction.”
By Chris Crowley
field notes
Nov. 12, 2019
A Restaurant Critic Walks Into a Wegmans … Adam Platt finds high-end cocktails, lots of parking, and an unnervingly chipper staff.
By Adam Platt
sad sandwiches
Oct. 31, 2019
By Alyse Whitney
the front lines
Oct. 28, 2019
Wegmania Arrives in Brooklyn “Wegmans is more than a grocery store — it’s a religion.”
By Rachel Sugar
factory farming
Oct. 16, 2019
A New Report Details Just How Dangerous America’s Meat Industry Has Become “Pretty much every other day a worker is sent to the hospital or loses a body part.”
By Marissa Conrad
coming soon
Oct. 15, 2019
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
Oct. 7, 2019
New York’s Last Dean & DeLuca Is Closed A “temporary” closing sure looks a lot more permanent.
By Chris Crowley
Whole Foods Will Cut Health-Care Benefits for Nearly 2,000 Employees The Amazon-owned company will no longer provide benefits for employees who work less than 30 hours per week.
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
July 16, 2019
Farewell to Dean & DeLuca, New York’s Food Utopia It made the city a better place to eat; now it’s on the brink of collapse.
By Patrick Kelly
grocery wars
Apr. 2, 2019
By Chris Crowley
grocery wars
Mar. 8, 2019
By Chris Crowley
grocery wars
Mar. 5, 2019
Of Course Whole Foods Should Sell Marijuana Get your asparagus water and your legal marijuana all in the same place.
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
Feb. 27, 2019
Whole Foods Will Kill Its ‘365’ Stores Once and For All The grocery chain will convert all of its budget-minded locations into “regular” Whole Foods branches.
By Chris Crowley
grocery wars
Feb. 12, 2019
Whole Foods Is Raising Its Prices Back Up Amazon has also slashed the grocer’s inventory.
By Chris Crowley
grocery wars
Jan. 11, 2019
Whole Foods Planning to Pick Over the Corpses of Dead Sears and Kmarts The Amazon-owned company is reportedly eyeing locations in less densely populated midwestern states.
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
Dec. 10, 2018
Instacart Shoppers Are Boycotting the Company Over Falling Wages Under a new pay model, employees have seen their earnings fall by half or more.
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
Nov. 6, 2018
Welcome to the Golden Age of Grocery Shopping Brutal competition and advancing technology mean better food, lower prices, and loads of convenience.
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Oct. 10, 2018
Inside the Fight to Unionize Whole Foods “I decided I was going to try organizing on day one — it was just that awful.”
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Sept. 6, 2018
Whole Foods Employees Want to Unionize Today, organizers will send out an email to employees at 490 stores encouraging them to join the effort.
By Nikita Richardson
grocery wars
May 30, 2018
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
May 16, 2018
By Clint Rainey
Is Whole Foods Preparing to Give Amazon Prime Members 10 Percent Off? A new report indicates that the company is about to give Amazon Prime members access to cheaper groceries.
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Apr. 18, 2018
Amazon Will Discontinue Whole Foods’ Loyalty Program in Two Weeks Starting May 2, the grocer will begin shifting rewards and coupons over to Amazon Prime.
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Mar. 30, 2018
Whole Foods Teases Plan to Give Amazon Prime Members a 10 Percent Discount Signs in Austin advertised “special deals just for” Prime account holders.
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Mar. 23, 2018
Whole Foods Decided to End the Week With Some Layoffs The chain will centralize marketing operations to “support the needs of the business.”
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Mar. 23, 2018
Is Kroger About to Merge With Target? Amazon fears may have two of America’s largest grocers aiming to join forces.
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Mar. 22, 2018
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Mar. 14, 2018
Walmart Will Launch Same-Day Grocery Delivery in NYC The next best thing to actually being allowed to build a store in the city.
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Mar. 13, 2018
Whole Foods Is Scrambling to Stop an Angry Vendors’ Revolt Both national and smaller brands are upset about new merchandising fees.
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Feb. 22, 2018
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Feb. 16, 2018
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Feb. 8, 2018
Amazon Is Testing Two-Hour Deliveries From Whole Foods Is this the beginning of the end of actual grocery stores?
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Feb. 1, 2018
It’s Reportedly ‘Normal’ to See Whole Foods Employees Crying These Days The company’s controversial new inventory system is apparently to blame.
By Clint Rainey
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