#grocery — Public Fediverse posts
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For those talking about #grocery prices (later half of the podcast talks about this several decades history; 1980s almost all towns at at least one grocery store, lots of towns had two grocery stores; even ones that had populations of less than 1,000 people! If you had more population then chances are you had more than two). Also covers in the first half price raising by the mega cooperation Walmart,
which raises prices everywhere else too.https://ilsr.org/article/independent-business/monopoly-power-and-grocery-affordability
@pluralistic
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For those talking about #grocery prices (later half of the podcast talks about this several decades history; 1980s almost all towns at at least one grocery store, lots of towns had two grocery stores; even ones that had populations of less than 1,000 people! If you had more population then chances are you had more than two). Also covers in the first half price raising by the mega cooperation Walmart,
which raises prices everywhere else too.https://ilsr.org/article/independent-business/monopoly-power-and-grocery-affordability
@pluralistic
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The Best Store-Bought Pasta Sauce, Tested and Reviewed (2026)
The best jarred marinara starts with, you guessed it, bright tomato flavor, balanced acidity, a hint of sweetness, and herbs that add complexity without stealing …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancooking #Cooking #grocery #Italia #Italian #italianamerican #italiancooking #italiano #italy #Pasta #RedSauce #sauce #tastetest #Tomato
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2766426/the-best-store-bought-pasta-sauce-tested-and-reviewed-2026/ -
The Best Store-Bought Pasta Sauce, Tested and Reviewed (2026)
The best jarred marinara starts with, you guessed it, bright tomato flavor, balanced acidity, a hint of sweetness, and herbs that add complexity without stealing …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancooking #Cooking #grocery #Italia #Italian #italianamerican #italiancooking #italiano #italy #Pasta #RedSauce #sauce #tastetest #Tomato
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2766426/the-best-store-bought-pasta-sauce-tested-and-reviewed-2026/ -
The Best Store-Bought Pasta Sauce, Tested and Reviewed (2026) https://www.diningandcooking.com/2766426/the-best-store-bought-pasta-sauce-tested-and-reviewed-2026/ #Cooking #grocery #Italia #Italian #ItalianAmerican #ItalianCooking #italiano #italy #Pasta #RedSauce #sauce #TasteTest #Tomato
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The Best Store-Bought Pasta Sauce, Tested and Reviewed (2026) https://www.diningandcooking.com/2766426/the-best-store-bought-pasta-sauce-tested-and-reviewed-2026/ #Cooking #grocery #Italia #Italian #ItalianAmerican #ItalianCooking #italiano #italy #Pasta #RedSauce #sauce #TasteTest #Tomato
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Trump: lower grocery prices ❌️ nap naps? ✅️
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Trump: lower grocery prices ❌️ nap naps? ✅️
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gaza_verified_campaigns/117053608947905167
$12 donated by a generous person Please, another floor donation so we can cover the week's needs and buy groceries for my family...🤍🍉🍉
#Grocery #marketing #help#gaza #gazaverified @gaza #Donate
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gaza_verified_campaigns/117053608947905167
$12 donated by a generous person Please, another floor donation so we can cover the week's needs and buy groceries for my family...🤍🍉🍉
#Grocery #marketing #help#gaza #gazaverified @gaza #Donate
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“I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.'”*…
As Max Burns reports, a wave of corporate consolidation is reshaping the grocery industry; today, the U.S. has one-third fewer grocery stores than it did 25 years ago. The result is that just four corporations—Walmart, Kroger, Costco, and Albertsons—control more than two-thirds of the U.S. grocery market, This is squeezing workers, limiting competition, and giving this handful of retailers unprecedented control over what Americans pay for food…
If it feels to you like American consumers have fewer choices than ever before, your mind isn’t playing tricks on you. Federal regulators are approving corporate mega-mergers at the fastest rate since the 1980s. Consumers are feeling those industry-spanning consolidations everywhere, as hardly a sector of American life has escaped Wall Street’s goal of building the largest and most powerful corporate conglomerates in world history.
From power utilities and artificial intelligence to broadcast news networks and railroads, a few massive corporate players have come to dominate American commercial life in ways not seen since the Gilded Age trusts of the 19th century. Those consolidations have generated historic profits for executives and major shareholders while working families are faced with lower quality goods and services, fewer options, and a hostile labor market unfairly skewed toward the interests of the ultra-rich.
Democrats have been quick to criticize some of the nation’s biggest mergers as anti-worker and anti-consumer, but one critical sector of the U.S. economy has managed to escape widespread public criticism: grocery stores. Thanks to a record rise in special interest cash donations to both Democrats and Republicans, grocery-industry lobby groups have managed to keep prices high, wages low, and consumer choice limited while avoiding federal policymakers’ crosshairs. The result is an invisible crisis in the nation’s food industry that threatens to reshape how and what Americans eat.
In a corporate landscape defined by Republican deregulation, America’s grocery stores and food suppliers are consolidating despite active federal laws explicitly intended to prevent anticompetitive behavior. Perhaps the most important of those laws is the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, or RPA, also known as the Anti-Price Discrimination Act. For decades, RPA ensured fair competition by banning food suppliers from charging different prices to different stores; at least it did until the Reagan-era Federal Trade Commission largely stopped enforcing it in the 1980s. Even though RPA is still the law of the land, food suppliers like Pepsi now routinely ignore the law without consequence.
“Big corporations have buying power, and they can oppress and dictate to producers what they want to pay for crops,” Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos told me. “A corporation can come to a farmer and say ‘we’ll pay you this price for potatoes, but you can’t give that price to anyone else,’ so they fix prices in a way that hurts independent supermarkets and independent businesses.”
Megacorporations aren’t subtle about flexing their market power to fix prices in ways that protect other megacorporations. Last year President Donald Trump’s FTC dismissed an RPA claim against PepsiCo which alleged that Pepsi illegally offered grocery chain Walmart unfair pricing discounts while charging smaller chains more for the same products. When independent grocery stores undercut Walmart by lowering the price of Pepsi products, PepsiCo allegedly responded by raising wholesale prices or refusing to do business with the smaller stores until they raised prices above those at Walmart.
As independent grocery stores struggle, they become more likely to sell out to larger national chains, leading to consolidation that makes both prices and employee wages less competitive. As president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 3000, Faye Guenther represents over 50,000 grocery and retail workers across the Pacific Northwest. Guenther has spent years fighting the growing imbalance between rising prices and falling wages. Now, she says, things have reached a crisis point for regular Americans…
Read on for Burns’ looks at the impact on workers (TLDR: fewer jobs, lower wages), availability of stores (TDLR: or its opposite, food deserts), and food prices (TLDR: they’re rising), and for his suggested remedies.
The painful reality behind the joke “I’m getting stronger with age. I can now lift $100 worth of groceries with one hand!”: “America’s Grocery Monopoly Problem,” from @themaxburns.bsky.social in @damemagazine.bsky.social.
See also: “Grocery Retail: The Last Link in the Monopoly Chain.”
Also apposite: “Big Food Versus the People” (what court battles reveal about the ultra-processed food industry’s corporate litigation strategies). Further to which: “Is the recycling symbol free speech? A judge just ruled it could be“…
A pioneering California law meant to sharply limit use of the familiar “chasing arrows” recycling symbol has been blocked by a federal judge who said it probably violates the First Amendment.
In a preliminary injunction issued earlier this month, U.S. District Judge William Hayes halted enforcement of SB 343 after food, packaging and retail groups sued, finding that key provisions were “unconstitutionally vague” and likely infringed protected commercial speech. Enforcement of the law, passed in 2021, was expected to start this fall.
The decision is a blow to environmental advocates, who had hoped to remove the familiar symbol from a huge array of plastic products, in line with a statewide study showing that only a fraction are widely collected and actually recycled. SB 343 said only goods and packaging accepted by recycling programs serving at least 60 percent of Californians and then actually sorted for recycling — not collected and thrown away — could bear the chasing arrows.
Hayes’ constitutional reasoning surprised supporters of SB 343 because similar arguments against environmental marketing regulations have historically struggled in court….
Of course, there’s always eating out… but of course, that’s got its own issues: “The restaurant business is changing beyond recognition,” gift article from @economist.com.
Oh, and we might note that this is National Farmers Market Week.
* Steven Wright
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As we chow down, we might recall that it was on this date in 1930 that the officially-adjudicated “first supermarket” opened: King Kullen in Queens, New York.
Grocery chains had been around since 1859, when The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was established. But they rarely sold fresh meat or produce and relied on the old mercantile system of clerks puling items from shelves on request. As long-time readers may recall, the first self-service grocery store was the Piggly Wiggly, which shifted to self-serve in 1916.
The first modern supermarkets appeared just over twenty years later, offering a full range of food items, beverages, and household items under one self-service roof, often with an emphasis on low prices as well as convenience. There were a number of contenders for the “first supermarket” crown…
#acquisitions #business #consolidation #culture #Food #foodDesert #foodPrices #grocery #groceryIndustry #groceryStore #history #KingKullen #labor #mergers #Monopoly #oligopoly #Retail #supermarketTo end the debate, the Food Marketing Institute in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and with funding from H.J. Heinz, researched the issue. They defined the attributes of a supermarket as “self-service, separate product departments, discount pricing, marketing and volume selling.” They determined that the first true supermarket in the United States was opened by a former Kroger employee, Michael J. Cullen, on 4 August 1930, inside a 6,000-square-foot former garage in Jamaica, Queens in New York City. The store King Kullen, operated under the logic of “pile it high and sell it cheap.” The store layout was designed by Joseph Unger, who originated the concept of customers using baskets to collect groceries before checking out at a counter. Everything displayed for sale in the store “had prices clearly marked”, meaning that consumers would no longer need to haggle over prices. Cullen described his store as “the world’s greatest price wrecker.” At the time of his death in 1936, there were seventeen King Kullen stores in operation. Although Saunders had brought the world self-service, uniform stores, and nationwide marketing, Cullen built on this idea by adding separate food departments, selling large volumes of food at discount prices and adding a parking lot. Moreover, the supermarket format as pioneered by King Kullen was not only cheap, but convenient, in how it combined so many different departments under one roof which had formerly required trips to separate stores. – source
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“I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.'”*…
As Max Burns reports, a wave of corporate consolidation is reshaping the grocery industry; today, the U.S. has one-third fewer grocery stores than it did 25 years ago. The result is that just four corporations—Walmart, Kroger, Costco, and Albertsons—control more than two-thirds of the U.S. grocery market, This is squeezing workers, limiting competition, and giving this handful of retailers unprecedented control over what Americans pay for food…
If it feels to you like American consumers have fewer choices than ever before, your mind isn’t playing tricks on you. Federal regulators are approving corporate mega-mergers at the fastest rate since the 1980s. Consumers are feeling those industry-spanning consolidations everywhere, as hardly a sector of American life has escaped Wall Street’s goal of building the largest and most powerful corporate conglomerates in world history.
From power utilities and artificial intelligence to broadcast news networks and railroads, a few massive corporate players have come to dominate American commercial life in ways not seen since the Gilded Age trusts of the 19th century. Those consolidations have generated historic profits for executives and major shareholders while working families are faced with lower quality goods and services, fewer options, and a hostile labor market unfairly skewed toward the interests of the ultra-rich.
Democrats have been quick to criticize some of the nation’s biggest mergers as anti-worker and anti-consumer, but one critical sector of the U.S. economy has managed to escape widespread public criticism: grocery stores. Thanks to a record rise in special interest cash donations to both Democrats and Republicans, grocery-industry lobby groups have managed to keep prices high, wages low, and consumer choice limited while avoiding federal policymakers’ crosshairs. The result is an invisible crisis in the nation’s food industry that threatens to reshape how and what Americans eat.
In a corporate landscape defined by Republican deregulation, America’s grocery stores and food suppliers are consolidating despite active federal laws explicitly intended to prevent anticompetitive behavior. Perhaps the most important of those laws is the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, or RPA, also known as the Anti-Price Discrimination Act. For decades, RPA ensured fair competition by banning food suppliers from charging different prices to different stores; at least it did until the Reagan-era Federal Trade Commission largely stopped enforcing it in the 1980s. Even though RPA is still the law of the land, food suppliers like Pepsi now routinely ignore the law without consequence.
“Big corporations have buying power, and they can oppress and dictate to producers what they want to pay for crops,” Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos told me. “A corporation can come to a farmer and say ‘we’ll pay you this price for potatoes, but you can’t give that price to anyone else,’ so they fix prices in a way that hurts independent supermarkets and independent businesses.”
Megacorporations aren’t subtle about flexing their market power to fix prices in ways that protect other megacorporations. Last year President Donald Trump’s FTC dismissed an RPA claim against PepsiCo which alleged that Pepsi illegally offered grocery chain Walmart unfair pricing discounts while charging smaller chains more for the same products. When independent grocery stores undercut Walmart by lowering the price of Pepsi products, PepsiCo allegedly responded by raising wholesale prices or refusing to do business with the smaller stores until they raised prices above those at Walmart.
As independent grocery stores struggle, they become more likely to sell out to larger national chains, leading to consolidation that makes both prices and employee wages less competitive. As president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 3000, Faye Guenther represents over 50,000 grocery and retail workers across the Pacific Northwest. Guenther has spent years fighting the growing imbalance between rising prices and falling wages. Now, she says, things have reached a crisis point for regular Americans…
Read on for Burns’ looks at the impact on workers (TLDR: fewer jobs, lower wages), availability of stores (TDLR: or its opposite, food deserts), and food prices (TLDR: they’re rising), and for his suggested remedies.
The painful reality behind the joke “I’m getting stronger with age. I can now lift $100 worth of groceries with one hand!”: “America’s Grocery Monopoly Problem,” from @themaxburns.bsky.social in @damemagazine.bsky.social.
See also: “Grocery Retail: The Last Link in the Monopoly Chain.”
Also apposite: “Big Food Versus the People” (what court battles reveal about the ultra-processed food industry’s corporate litigation strategies). Further to which: “Is the recycling symbol free speech? A judge just ruled it could be“…
A pioneering California law meant to sharply limit use of the familiar “chasing arrows” recycling symbol has been blocked by a federal judge who said it probably violates the First Amendment.
In a preliminary injunction issued earlier this month, U.S. District Judge William Hayes halted enforcement of SB 343 after food, packaging and retail groups sued, finding that key provisions were “unconstitutionally vague” and likely infringed protected commercial speech. Enforcement of the law, passed in 2021, was expected to start this fall.
The decision is a blow to environmental advocates, who had hoped to remove the familiar symbol from a huge array of plastic products, in line with a statewide study showing that only a fraction are widely collected and actually recycled. SB 343 said only goods and packaging accepted by recycling programs serving at least 60 percent of Californians and then actually sorted for recycling — not collected and thrown away — could bear the chasing arrows.
Hayes’ constitutional reasoning surprised supporters of SB 343 because similar arguments against environmental marketing regulations have historically struggled in court….
Of course, there’s always eating out… but of course, that’s got its own issues: “The restaurant business is changing beyond recognition,” gift article from @economist.com.
Oh, and we might note that this is National Farmers Market Week.
* Steven Wright
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As we chow down, we might recall that it was on this date in 1930 that the officially-adjudicated “first supermarket” opened: King Kullen in Queens, New York.
Grocery chains had been around since 1859, when The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was established. But they rarely sold fresh meat or produce and relied on the old mercantile system of clerks puling items from shelves on request. As long-time readers may recall, the first self-service grocery store was the Piggly Wiggly, which shifted to self-serve in 1916.
The first modern supermarkets appeared just over twenty years later, offering a full range of food items, beverages, and household items under one self-service roof, often with an emphasis on low prices as well as convenience. There were a number of contenders for the “first supermarket” crown…
#acquisitions #business #consolidation #culture #Food #foodDesert #foodPrices #grocery #groceryIndustry #groceryStore #history #KingKullen #labor #mergers #Monopoly #oligopoly #Retail #supermarketTo end the debate, the Food Marketing Institute in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and with funding from H.J. Heinz, researched the issue. They defined the attributes of a supermarket as “self-service, separate product departments, discount pricing, marketing and volume selling.” They determined that the first true supermarket in the United States was opened by a former Kroger employee, Michael J. Cullen, on 4 August 1930, inside a 6,000-square-foot former garage in Jamaica, Queens in New York City. The store King Kullen, operated under the logic of “pile it high and sell it cheap.” The store layout was designed by Joseph Unger, who originated the concept of customers using baskets to collect groceries before checking out at a counter. Everything displayed for sale in the store “had prices clearly marked”, meaning that consumers would no longer need to haggle over prices. Cullen described his store as “the world’s greatest price wrecker.” At the time of his death in 1936, there were seventeen King Kullen stores in operation. Although Saunders had brought the world self-service, uniform stores, and nationwide marketing, Cullen built on this idea by adding separate food departments, selling large volumes of food at discount prices and adding a parking lot. Moreover, the supermarket format as pioneered by King Kullen was not only cheap, but convenient, in how it combined so many different departments under one roof which had formerly required trips to separate stores. – source
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Many People Eat Too Much Protein, Researcher Warns—Here’s Why It Could Age You
Topline A review of more than 350 scientific studies published Friday found booming protein food options at grocery…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #food #grocery #Headlines #healthcare #Protein #Science #Study #TopStories
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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu Thought Delivering Fast Food Was a Tough Sell
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu never expected that people would pay as much as they do for food delivery. The delivery service became one of the…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #bigcompany #customer #delivery #deliveryservice #doordash #fooddelivery #grocery #home #people #premium #tacobellpartnership #time #toughsell #Work #xu
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750646/doordash-ceo-tony-xu-thought-delivering-fast-food-was-a-tough-sell/ -
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu Thought Delivering Fast Food Was a Tough Sell
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu never expected that people would pay as much as they do for food delivery. The delivery service became one of the…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #bigcompany #customer #delivery #deliveryservice #doordash #fooddelivery #grocery #home #people #premium #tacobellpartnership #time #toughsell #Work #xu
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750646/doordash-ceo-tony-xu-thought-delivering-fast-food-was-a-tough-sell/ -
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu Thought Delivering Fast Food Was a Tough Sell https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750646/doordash-ceo-tony-xu-thought-delivering-fast-food-was-a-tough-sell/ #BigCompany #customer #delivery #DeliveryService #doordash #food #FoodDelivery #grocery #home #people #premium #TacoBellPartnership #time #ToughSell #Work #xu
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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu Thought Delivering Fast Food Was a Tough Sell https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750646/doordash-ceo-tony-xu-thought-delivering-fast-food-was-a-tough-sell/ #BigCompany #customer #delivery #DeliveryService #doordash #food #FoodDelivery #grocery #home #people #premium #TacoBellPartnership #time #ToughSell #Work #xu
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#GasPrices were $4.29, some higher at $4.57 but it was clear $4.19 was supposed to be cheap. This was true in northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. But over the years I got my favorite spots, where I bought at $4.02 & $3.99 (PA & NJ respectively).
Last #CampingTrip, I got gas for $3.69 if not less.
(When the nearest grocery [sorry, "supermarket"] is 25 minutes each way, you start thinking gas cost.)
#camping #chronicles #grocery v. #supermarket #nearby #amenities #shopping #restaurant -
#GasPrices were $4.29, some higher at $4.57 but it was clear $4.19 was supposed to be cheap. This was true in northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. But over the years I got my favorite spots, where I bought at $4.02 & $3.99 (PA & NJ respectively).
Last #CampingTrip, I got gas for $3.69 if not less.
(When the nearest grocery [sorry, "supermarket"] is 25 minutes each way, you start thinking gas cost.)
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CW: Passing gas, artificial idiocy spoof
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CW: Passing gas, artificial idiocy spoof
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📦 Forceu/barcodebuddy
Barcode system for Grocy
Scans barcodes and syncs them with Grocy, looking up unknown products and allowing tag-based preselection
⭐ Stars: 596
📅 Last Update: Jul 13, 2026https://github.com/Forceu/barcodebuddy
#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #barcode #grocery
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#NewJersey bans #grocery stores from using shoppers' personal data to set prices • Jersey Vindicator
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#NewJersey bans #grocery stores from using shoppers' personal data to set prices • Jersey Vindicator
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Higher prices are rewriting #grocery lists and family menus in 2026
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Higher prices are rewriting #grocery lists and family menus in 2026
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@elsua54 How do you measure the failure in #COVID (for them)?
My thinking is they exercised their collective powers, showing us:
1/ They can ignore professional advice & solutions
2/ They can make us do silly things / change @normal life, scare us unnecessarily for perhaps what wasn't as big as they stated or for #old people mainly.
3/ We were forced / made ilegal to go places without #COVID #passport, #food #grocery #places #travel etc
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1.6 million cage-free eggs recalled for possible salmonella contamination. The eggs had been sold by retailers in several states:
• Texas
• Oklahoma
• Arkansas
• Louisiana
• New Mexico
• Mississippi#USA #US #food #grocery
#EggRecall #PSA
---https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2026/07/23/egg-recall-products-states-list/91020489007/
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1.6 million cage-free eggs recalled for possible salmonella contamination. The eggs had been sold by retailers in several states:
• Texas
• Oklahoma
• Arkansas
• Louisiana
• New Mexico
• Mississippi#USA #US #food #grocery
#EggRecall #PSA
---https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2026/07/23/egg-recall-products-states-list/91020489007/
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Sis2 usually does #grocery shopping for my father and me, but she wasn't feeling well, so she told Sis1 to do it. Sis2's system has her go to any of the six local supermarkets, but only the one we pick, not two or more. And if something on the list isn't available, she skips it, rather than choose some substitute we might not like.
Sis1 has a far different system. She freely swaps out items, either because something wasn't available, or she thought something else was better. Or she'll add something we didn't order, because she knows we usually do. And she might not pick up something at the store we selected, because she saw it cheaper elsewhere — which she might get around to going to the next day.
So I didn't get the deli turkey I order every week yesterday, and I still don't have it today. I asked for green grapes, and got red ones. And the chicken breasts and gluten-free ciabatta rolls I didn't get yesterday showed up today, along with two bags of potato chips, even though I already have four on my shelf.
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Sis2 usually does #grocery shopping for my father and me, but she wasn't feeling well, so she told Sis1 to do it. Sis2's system has her go to any of the six local supermarkets, but only the one we pick, not two or more. And if something on the list isn't available, she skips it, rather than choose some substitute we might not like.
Sis1 has a far different system. She freely swaps out items, either because something wasn't available, or she thought something else was better. Or she'll add something we didn't order, because she knows we usually do. And she might not pick up something at the store we selected, because she saw it cheaper elsewhere — which she might get around to going to the next day.
So I didn't get the deli turkey I order every week yesterday, and I still don't have it today. I asked for green grapes, and got red ones. And the chicken breasts and gluten-free ciabatta rolls I didn't get yesterday showed up today, along with two bags of potato chips, even though I already have four on my shelf.
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🎩 Behold, the #font that tucks your #secrets under an alphabetic #invisibility cloak! Now your messages are safe from AI snoops—because who wouldn't want their letters to moonlight as decoys? 🤡 Perfect for those times you need to conceal your #grocery #list from Skynet.
https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font #AIprivacy #cloak #tech #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩 Behold, the #font that tucks your #secrets under an alphabetic #invisibility cloak! Now your messages are safe from AI snoops—because who wouldn't want their letters to moonlight as decoys? 🤡 Perfect for those times you need to conceal your #grocery #list from Skynet.
https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font #AIprivacy #cloak #tech #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Kroger revamps wine aisle to win over customers https://www.diningandcooking.com/2725816/kroger-revamps-wine-aisle-to-win-over-customers/ #EuropeanCountries #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #grocery #kroger #TotalWine #Wine #WineConsumption #WineDrinking #WineTastings
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Kroger revamps wine aisle to win over customers https://www.diningandcooking.com/2725816/kroger-revamps-wine-aisle-to-win-over-customers/ #EuropeanCountries #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #grocery #kroger #TotalWine #Wine #WineConsumption #WineDrinking #WineTastings
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Kroger revamps wine aisle to win over customers
The French and Italian aren’t the only ones who love wine. While wine might be seen as a fancy drink to have at work parties or to impress your partner’…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #FrenchWine #Frenchwine #MediterraneanWine #Europeancountries #francais #france #French #frenchwine #grocery #kroger #totalwine #Wine #wineconsumption #winedrinking #WineTastings
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Kroger revamps wine aisle to win over customers
The French and Italian aren’t the only ones who love wine. While wine might be seen as a fancy drink to have at work parties or to impress your partner’…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #FrenchWine #Frenchwine #MediterraneanWine #Europeancountries #francais #france #French #frenchwine #grocery #kroger #totalwine #Wine #wineconsumption #winedrinking #WineTastings
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2725816/kroger-revamps-wine-aisle-to-win-over-customers/ -
https://substack.com/inbox/post/206634637
'#National’s 2023 mandate ... was a specific, time-bound trust: steady the #economic ship, ease the #cost of living, govern from a broadly centrist place. Three years later, National is ... asking voters to forget the record and judge them instead on a new set of promises. ...
'The forgotten mandate of 2023
'In 2023, New Zealanders didn’t vote for an ideological revolution. They voted for a change of management. National’s pitch was pragmatic and restrained: fix the basics, restore confidence, bring some relief to households battered by #inflation and instability.
'That mandate ... was about #rent, groceries, power bills, #childcare, #wages, and making public services work.
'Instead of anchoring the government in centrist economic stewardship, National traded that space away, ... to satisfy coalition partners with far sharper ideological agendas.
'The pivot to culture wars and identity politics
'Instead of spending its political capital on productivity and shared prosperity, the government spent much of its term fuelling divisive fights ....
'A #Treaty Principles Bill, driven by ACT and enabled by National, tried to freeze a narrow, Crown-centric reading of Te Tiriti into law. It failed, but the process itself strained social cohesion ....
'Moves to prioritise English-only branding and pare back te reo Māori in public-sector naming sent a clear message: bilingualism and #Māori visibility were now optional extras, not foundational commitments.
'In education, “back to basics” rhetoric became a vehicle for rolling back more relational, inclusive approaches to education. ....
'Trans and #gender diverse communities were ... dragged into the spotlight as ministers flirted with imported culture-war talking points, ....
'None of this delivered cheaper rent, lower #grocery bills, or shorter #GP wait times. What it delivered was distraction, division, and a clear signal that marginalised communities were expendable
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https://substack.com/inbox/post/206634637
'#National’s 2023 mandate ... was a specific, time-bound trust: steady the #economic ship, ease the #cost of living, govern from a broadly centrist place. Three years later, National is ... asking voters to forget the record and judge them instead on a new set of promises. ...
'The forgotten mandate of 2023
'In 2023, New Zealanders didn’t vote for an ideological revolution. They voted for a change of management. National’s pitch was pragmatic and restrained: fix the basics, restore confidence, bring some relief to households battered by #inflation and instability.
'That mandate ... was about #rent, groceries, power bills, #childcare, #wages, and making public services work.
'Instead of anchoring the government in centrist economic stewardship, National traded that space away, ... to satisfy coalition partners with far sharper ideological agendas.
'The pivot to culture wars and identity politics
'Instead of spending its political capital on productivity and shared prosperity, the government spent much of its term fuelling divisive fights ....
'A #Treaty Principles Bill, driven by ACT and enabled by National, tried to freeze a narrow, Crown-centric reading of Te Tiriti into law. It failed, but the process itself strained social cohesion ....
'Moves to prioritise English-only branding and pare back te reo Māori in public-sector naming sent a clear message: bilingualism and #Māori visibility were now optional extras, not foundational commitments.
'In education, “back to basics” rhetoric became a vehicle for rolling back more relational, inclusive approaches to education. ....
'Trans and #gender diverse communities were ... dragged into the spotlight as ministers flirted with imported culture-war talking points, ....
'None of this delivered cheaper rent, lower #grocery bills, or shorter #GP wait times. What it delivered was distraction, division, and a clear signal that marginalised communities were expendable
'.....'
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#USDA reports unusually large #US #beef export sales, raising doubts over #data accuracy ~
(from July 2)"U.S. beef #exports have declined since 2022 due to high #prices and scarce inventories, and an increase could further raise #costs for domestic consumers already facing higher #grocery bills during the summer grilling season."
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#USDA reports unusually large #US #beef export sales, raising doubts over #data accuracy ~
(from July 2)"U.S. beef #exports have declined since 2022 due to high #prices and scarce inventories, and an increase could further raise #costs for domestic consumers already facing higher #grocery bills during the summer grilling season."
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The Best Store-Bought Corn Tortillas (2026 Taste Test)
What won us over: Masienda’s tortillas had noticeably more substance than nearly every other contender, but they remained flexible enough to fold without cracking. More importantly, they delivered the boldest corn flavor of the grou…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #CookingTopics #Corn #grocery #Mexican #shopping; #taco #tastetest #Tortillas
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2720784/the-best-store-bought-corn-tortillas-2026-taste-test/ -
The Best Store-Bought Corn Tortillas (2026 Taste Test)
What won us over: Masienda’s tortillas had noticeably more substance than nearly every other contender, but they remained flexible enough to fold without cracking. More importantly, they delivered the boldest corn flavor of the grou…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #CookingTopics #Corn #grocery #Mexican #shopping; #taco #tastetest #Tortillas
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2720784/the-best-store-bought-corn-tortillas-2026-taste-test/ -
The Best Store-Bought Corn Tortillas (2026 Taste Test) https://www.diningandcooking.com/2720784/the-best-store-bought-corn-tortillas-2026-taste-test/ #Cooking #CookingTopics #Corn #grocery #Mexican #shopping; #taco #TasteTest #Tortillas
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The Best Store-Bought Corn Tortillas (2026 Taste Test) https://www.diningandcooking.com/2720784/the-best-store-bought-corn-tortillas-2026-taste-test/ #Cooking #CookingTopics #Corn #grocery #Mexican #shopping; #taco #TasteTest #Tortillas
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BPI Customers Can Withdraw And Deposit Cash At Grocery, Convenience Stores And Other Commercial Joints
Customers of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) are able to withdraw and deposit cash at grocery, convenience stores and other commercial joints thanks to the a newly launched campaign between the bank and over a thousand partner stores, according to a news report by GMA News.
To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the report of GMA News. Some parts in boldface…
The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) on Wednesday launched its “Himala” campaign, allowing customers to withdraw and deposit cash at 1,369 partner stores, including grocery and convenience stores.
The service effectively turns participating outlets into “mini BPI branches,” enabling customers to complete cash transactions without visiting a physical bank branch.
The partner network includes Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. (RRHI) stores such as Robinsons Easymart, Robinsons Supermarket, Shopwise, The Marketplace, Robinsons Department Store, Toys “R” Us, and Uncle John’s.
The service is also available at non-RRHI outlets, including Amesco, Fitmart GenSan, CVM Pawnshop, Falcor Marketing, Prince Retail, Prince Warehouse, Rodamel Drugstore, Savers Depot, Tacurong Fit Mart Inc., and Tambunting Pawnshop.
Customers can generate a barcode through the BPI app for cash deposits and withdrawals, then present it at any participating store for processing. They may also send the barcode to another person, who can use it to deposit or withdraw cash at a partner outlet.
Customers may deposit or withdraw a minimum of P100 through the partner network. Deposits are limited to P10,000 per barcode and P50,000 per day, while withdrawals are capped at P10,000.
Select services, including account opening and applications for BPI products, are also available through the bank’s network of 8,000 retail partners, which includes pharmacies and gas stations nationwide.
According to BPI Agency Banking head Rally Jereza, the Ayala-led lender is in talks to onboard more partner stores, with the goal of expanding the network to 10,000 outlets within the year.
“For now, I’m satisfied with 8,000 because we want to encourage people to use [the service]. But in terms of expanding, with existing BPI clients, corporate clients… it’s easy to expand. Right now, we just want to be able to maximize all of those footprints,” he said.
Jereza said the initiative also supports BPI’s “May BPI Dito” campaign, which aims to make the bank’s services available in as many locations as possible.
“What began in 2023 as product application points has evolved into a fully integrated banking ecosystem. Every phase—from enabling transactions on tablets to barcode withdrawals and now barcode deposits—was built to ensure safety, simplicity, and trust,” he said.
“This is not just expansion; it is a redefinition of what a bank can be in the digital age,” he added.
BPI said it has onboarded more than one million new-to-bank customers through its agency banking network and aims to increase the figure to 10 million.
Let me end this post by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this recent development? If you are a BPI customer, have you experience the convenience of doing important transactions at the grocery or at the convenience store lately?
You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.
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BPI Customers Can Withdraw And Deposit Cash At Grocery, Convenience Stores And Other Commercial Joints
Customers of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) are able to withdraw and deposit cash at grocery, convenience stores and other commercial joints thanks to the a newly launched campaign between the bank and over a thousand partner stores, according to a news report by GMA News.
To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the report of GMA News. Some parts in boldface…
The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) on Wednesday launched its “Himala” campaign, allowing customers to withdraw and deposit cash at 1,369 partner stores, including grocery and convenience stores.
The service effectively turns participating outlets into “mini BPI branches,” enabling customers to complete cash transactions without visiting a physical bank branch.
The partner network includes Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. (RRHI) stores such as Robinsons Easymart, Robinsons Supermarket, Shopwise, The Marketplace, Robinsons Department Store, Toys “R” Us, and Uncle John’s.
The service is also available at non-RRHI outlets, including Amesco, Fitmart GenSan, CVM Pawnshop, Falcor Marketing, Prince Retail, Prince Warehouse, Rodamel Drugstore, Savers Depot, Tacurong Fit Mart Inc., and Tambunting Pawnshop.
Customers can generate a barcode through the BPI app for cash deposits and withdrawals, then present it at any participating store for processing. They may also send the barcode to another person, who can use it to deposit or withdraw cash at a partner outlet.
Customers may deposit or withdraw a minimum of P100 through the partner network. Deposits are limited to P10,000 per barcode and P50,000 per day, while withdrawals are capped at P10,000.
Select services, including account opening and applications for BPI products, are also available through the bank’s network of 8,000 retail partners, which includes pharmacies and gas stations nationwide.
According to BPI Agency Banking head Rally Jereza, the Ayala-led lender is in talks to onboard more partner stores, with the goal of expanding the network to 10,000 outlets within the year.
“For now, I’m satisfied with 8,000 because we want to encourage people to use [the service]. But in terms of expanding, with existing BPI clients, corporate clients… it’s easy to expand. Right now, we just want to be able to maximize all of those footprints,” he said.
Jereza said the initiative also supports BPI’s “May BPI Dito” campaign, which aims to make the bank’s services available in as many locations as possible.
“What began in 2023 as product application points has evolved into a fully integrated banking ecosystem. Every phase—from enabling transactions on tablets to barcode withdrawals and now barcode deposits—was built to ensure safety, simplicity, and trust,” he said.
“This is not just expansion; it is a redefinition of what a bank can be in the digital age,” he added.
BPI said it has onboarded more than one million new-to-bank customers through its agency banking network and aims to increase the figure to 10 million.
Let me end this post by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this recent development? If you are a BPI customer, have you experience the convenience of doing important transactions at the grocery or at the convenience store lately?
You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.
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Thank you for reading. If you find this article engaging, please click the like button below, share this article to others and also please consider making a donation to support my publishing. If you are looking for a copywriter to create content for your special project or business, check out my services and my portfolio. Feel free to contact me with a private message. Also please feel free to visit my Facebook page Author Carlo Carrasco and follow me on Twitter at @CarloCarrascoPH as well as on Tumblr at https://carlocarrasco.tumblr.com/ and on Instagram athttps://www.instagram.com/authorcarlocarrasco
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Retiree in Newark Spends $150 a Week on Groceries: Food Budget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with John Goldstein, a 75-year-old retiree in Newark, New Jersey. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Like the…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #Bean #cost #fixedincome #foodbudget #grocery #Healthcare #lot #money #Newark #people #retiree #Third #time #week #year
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Retiree in Newark Spends $150 a Week on Groceries: Food Budget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with John Goldstein, a 75-year-old retiree in Newark, New Jersey. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Like the…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #Bean #cost #fixedincome #foodbudget #grocery #Healthcare #lot #money #Newark #people #retiree #Third #time #week #year
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Retiree in Newark Spends $150 a Week on Groceries: Food Budget https://www.diningandcooking.com/2714462/retiree-in-newark-spends-150-a-week-on-groceries-food-budget/ #Bean #cost #FixedIncome #food #FoodBudget #grocery #Healthcare #lot #money #Newark #people #retiree #Third #time #week #year
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Retiree in Newark Spends $150 a Week on Groceries: Food Budget https://www.diningandcooking.com/2714462/retiree-in-newark-spends-150-a-week-on-groceries-food-budget/ #Bean #cost #FixedIncome #food #FoodBudget #grocery #Healthcare #lot #money #Newark #people #retiree #Third #time #week #year
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Kroger buying regional grocer and pharmacy retailer Giant Eagle in deal valued at $1.65 billion ~
"Giant Eagle, which is privately held, has 197 supermarkets and 11 standalone pharmacies across northern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana. #Kroger has thousands of stores operating under various brands, including Ralphs, King Soopers, Smith’s and Fred Meyer."
"The deal is expected to close next year."
https://apnews.com/article/kroger-giant-eagle-1ec70b964ee9ca58be0123be83721c9a
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#PapaJohns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty
#NBC and #Instacart created a custom audience of shoppers who regularly purchase #grocery staples on Instacart, such as eggs, milk, meat and produce. Based on that data, Papa Johns can determine which days of the week certain consumers are likely to run out of groceries and serve them an #ad on #NBCU streaming content accordingly.
https://www.adexchanger.com/tv/papa-johns-can-predict-when-your-fridge-is-empty/
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From high food inflation to increasing usage of buy now, pay later programs, here’s a look at how shoppers are grappling with affordability woes. #food #grocery #economy
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