Hey Amazon, Kroger’s new delivery partner operates almost entirely on robots
Since June of last year, the grocery industry has been in turmoil, mostly thanks to Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods. For months, it hasn’t been clear how traditional supermarkets would adapt to the...
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This coming Monday, June 16, marks a big day for online shopping: Prime Day. Now a major retail event on the order of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Amazon’s 30-hour sale has become an annual feeding...
View ArticleOne of America’s biggest hospitals invests in the meal-delivery space
What do restaurateur David Chang, reality television personality Jonathan Cheban, and New York’s Mount Sinai hospital network have in common? All three have taken a crack at penetrating the volatile...
View ArticleMcCain Foods closes the California facility responsible for 2018’s largest...
Earlier this month, we reported on a massive food recall you’d never heard about: millions of pounds of produce potentially contaminated with salmonella or listeria, going back three years, from McCain...
View ArticlePrepare for sticker shock. The U.S.-Mexico Tomato War is on
If you enjoy the red vine-ripened tomatoes you find at your local grocery, get prepared to potentially pay more. Lots more. The U.S. Department of Commerce on Tuesday is expected to pull out of the...
View ArticleWho feeds 19 million New Yorkers every day?
Editor’s note: The following story, “New York sits down to dinner,” is the result of an annual project from the food-writing class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. This year, the...
View ArticleFDA to test frozen berries for viruses that can live in the cold
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced that it has begun spot testing frozen berries for hepatitis A and norovirus. The testing will last 18 months and commenced in November of...
View Article“Breaking our back”: Food banks are drowning in milk China won’t buy
Later this summer, about 60,000 gallons of fresh, free milk will be driven from dairy farms and processors in Phoenix, Arizona and High Point, North Carolina, to food banks across Colorado. Shannon...
View ArticleSome 60 million pounds of imported produce could get dumped at the...
UPDATE, May 28, 2019, 5:13 pm, ET: This story was updated with additional information regarding the Compost Cats program. NOGALES, Arizona—During the October to May season, about a thousand...
View ArticleWill food delivery companies follow California’s new law to regulate the gig...
On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), a groundbreaking piece of legislation designed to make app-based companies start treating their workers like real employees....
View ArticleCan a new reusable container program—dishwashing included—help solve...
On Thursday morning, the popular East Coast fast-casual restaurant chain Dig officially launched a new initiative with a lofty goal: to reduce the vast number of take-out food containers being tossed...
View ArticleIs Instacart the worst of the food delivery apps?
Last week, Instacart workers across the nation went on strike in hopes of persuading the company to change the default tip from 5 percent to 10 percent when a customer uses its app to order groceries....
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