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Albertsons store closures show industry's travails
Jackie Dancy has been to the Albertsons supermarket near her Baldwin Hills home many times, but she couldn't care less that the store is closing permanently. The retired accountant now does most of her grocery shopping at a nearby Target, which she likes...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Target, Walter Hamilton
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Alberstons in Glendale among 26 locations to close nationwide
The parent company of the Albertsons supermarket chain is closing 26 stores nationwide, including its lone branch in South Glendale, as it tries to overcome sharp operating losses and stiff price competition from big-box rivals. Supervalu Inc. said...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Los Angeles Times, Target, Walmart, Economy, Business and Finance
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Shoppers Food workers at some Maryland stores ratify two-year contract
Shoppers Food & Pharmacy workers at some Maryland and Virginia stores ratified a new, two-year contract Thursday that increases wages, maintains pension benefits and funds health benefits without raising workers' costs, the union local representing the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Wage Contract Issues, Collective Contract, Services and Shopping, Groceries
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'Pink slime's' Beef Products Inc.: Hard knock for a good company?
Beef Products Inc. told the Associated Press on Monday that it’ll shut down operations at three of the four plants where it makes the meat product that critics have nastily taken to calling “pink slime.” But some food industry experts...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Consumer Goods Industries, Kroger Company, Food Industry, Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings
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Stocks continue to spiral down for a fifth day
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell Tuesday on disappointing news about the U.S. economy, extending a losing streak that could turn into the year's longest. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 54 points to 12,875 in the first hour of trading. The broader...Tags: Science and Technology, Federal Reserve, Sales, Companies and Corporations, China
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Beef Processor Shuts Plants Over "Pink Slime" Fallout
Los Angeles TimesBeef Products Inc. told the Associated Press on Monday that it will shut down operations at three of the four plants where it makes the meat product that critics have nastily taken to calling "pink slime." But some food industry experts say that the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Los Angeles Times, Consumer Goods Industries, Kroger Company, Food Industry
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Kroger to stop selling "pink slime" in beef
Two supermarket chains are joining the growing list of store chains that will no longer sell beef if it includes what's been called "pink slime." Federal regulators say the filler, treated with ammonia, meets food safety standards. It's known in the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Standards, Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings, Safeway Inc.
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More retailers pull formula after Mo. infant death
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Several more national retailers have joined Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in pulling a batch of powdered infant formula from their shelves after a Missouri newborn who consumed it apparently died of a rare bacterial infection. Officials...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Medical Procedures and Tests, Walgreen Co., Health, Kroger Company
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Start 2012 on the right foot
As the calendar turned to 2012, the usual glut of "experts" willing and ready to tell us how to be better people — thinner, fitter, more organized, less stressed, kinder and more financially sound — made their annual appearance before...Tags: Finance, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Television, Finance, Weight Loss
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Grocery Workers Cast Ballots on Strike Authorization Vote
KTLA NewsBURBANK ( KTLA ) -- An estimated 62,000 grocery workers in Southern California have cast their ballots for a second time on whether to go ahead with a strike. The vote was held Friday, just days after Albertsons and Vons began taking applications from...Tags: Elections, Unions, KTLA, Kroger Company, Career and Workplace
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Fitness Fridays: 6 tips for healthy eating -- and what foods you'll need to weather storm
What do you need to weather the storm? According to Kendra Robinson, nurse educator at Olde Towne Medical Center in Williamsburg and Jennifer Shea of Supervalu (Farm Fresh): oatmeal, beans, tuna fish, peanut butter, dried fruit, canned low-sodium...Tags: Healthy Diet, Diets and Dieting, Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Deadline passes, talks continue for Calif. grocers
LOS ANGELES -- Negotiations throughout the night failed to produce a resolution as Southern California grocery employees returned to work Monday and their union and three major supermarket chains tried to avoid a strike. Ellen Anreder, a spokeswoman...Tags: Career and Workplace, Unions, Kroger Company, Employees, Antonio Villaraigosa
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