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Why Is Amazon Ducking Animal Cruelty Controversy?

Nathan Runkle | Posted 06.18.2013 | Crime
Nathan Runkle

At Amazon, unconscionably cruel foie gras is still just a click away.

A Breakthrough in How We Work to Protect Our Oceans

Philip Radford | Posted 06.12.2013 | Green
Philip Radford

The Bering Sea is known to scientists and conservationists as one of the most remarkable places on Earth. But as of this week, the Bering Sea is remarkable for another reason -- it's the impetus for a an amazing breakthrough in the way we work to protect our oceans.

What You Don't Know About Your Favorite Snacks

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 05.14.2013 | Business

NEW YORK — Supermarkets including Kroger, Safeway and Whole Foods are improving the image of their store brands with better packaging and more d...

A Safer Way to Affordable Health Care

Peter A. Georgescu | Posted 04.02.2013 | Business
Peter A. Georgescu

Programs that incentivize healthful choices like Safeway's, if embraced at companies throughout the nation, might go a long way toward bringing health care expenditures down.

How Walmart Snuck Its Way Into Boulder

Dave Taylor | Posted 03.24.2013 | Business
Dave Taylor

While some locals will continue to decry the presence of the new store, the fact is that Boulder residents have the opportunity to vote with their dollars, because in the end it's a simple equation for any retailer: If people come and shop, the company thrives.

What Safeway Doesn't Want You To Know

Posted 12.21.2012 | Business

One of the country's largest supermarket chains doesn't seem to be learning its lesson. Following multiple lawsuits, failed inspections and an unde...

Bakery Bans Photography Of Awesomely Bad Cake Designs

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 11.12.2012 | Home

Safeway bakeries are not known for artistry in the cake department. This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the website Cake Wrecks, w...

Trouble Brewing For Kona Coffee

AP | Jennifer Sinco Kelleher | Posted 08.31.2012 | Small Business

HONOLULU — A national grocer said it has changed its label on packages of Kona coffee blends, making good on a promise it made last year to a group ...

Bad News For Safeway

AP | By CANDICE CHOI | Posted 09.19.2012 | San Francisco

NEW YORK -- Safeway Inc. said Thursday that its net income fell 16 percent in the second quarter, as the grocery store operator spent more on advertis...

A Wish For All Men

Angie Harmon | Posted 07.24.2012 | Impact
Angie Harmon

It is for all of the wonderful men in my life that I am raising my voice about a disease that affects more than two million American men and remains the second-leading cause of cancer death for men in the U.S. We can make a difference with the progress of finding better treatments and ultimately, a cure.

Graduate Economics: Balancing the Budget Without Benefit Cuts or Tax Increases

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 07.16.2012 | Politics
Mark R. Kennedy

Providing incentives to my children helped me to balance my checkbook. By doing the same, America could remain solvent with a lot less pain to beneficiaries and taxpayers.

Safeway Claims Big Change In Its Pork Will Come

Posted 05.07.2012 | Home

The national supermarket chain Safeway has announced that it is working to formulate a plan to sell pork only from suppliers that do not use gestation...

SLIDESHOW: #GoodSpotting Shares Random Acts Of Kindness With The World

Posted 12.12.2011 | Impact

Did you catch someone going out of their way for a neighbor, or meet some great volunteers at a food shelter? Share it via #GoodSpotting! The Case ...

Guard Fired After Nabbing Child Who Ate From Box

AP | Posted 11.25.2011 | Parents

EVERETT, Wash. -- A grocery store security guard was fired after he told the father of a 4-year-old girl that she would face criminal charges for eati...

Grocer Drops $5 Sandwich Theft Charges After Uproar

AP | JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Posted 01.01.2012 | Crime

HONOLULU — Safeway is declining to press charges against a Honolulu couple whose arrests over stolen sandwiches led state workers to take custod...

$5 Sandwiches Landed This Couple In Jail, Daughter Taken Away

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.31.2011 | Crime

When Nicole Leczcyzynski, a pregnant mother from Hawaii, felt dizzy while grocery shopping, she and her husband decided to munch on some $5 sandwiches...

Coffee Growers File Class-Action Suit Against Safeway

AP | By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Posted 11.16.2011 | Home

HONOLULU -- A spat involving Safeway and Hawaii coffee growers is still brewing, even after the supermarket giant agreed to change labeling on its Kon...

Do Frozen Meals Free Us Or Turn Us Into Barbarians?

Anneli Rufus | Posted 10.02.2011 | Home
Anneli Rufus

Are Trader Joe's frozen gnocchi and Hibachi House frozen teriyaki chicken destroying Western civilization? Or are they the great liberators of our age?

Watch: A Picnic Table Bigger Than A Football Field Assembled In 30 Seconds

Posted 08.31.2011 | Weird News

At 305 feet, the world's longest picnic table easily stretches from endzone-to-endzone on a pro football field. To celebrate National Picnic Day, S...

Sex and the Salad.

Meredith Fineman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Meredith Fineman

So apparently the supermarket is a good place for young people to meet other young people. According to Patti Stanger, Our Lady of Pink Office Motifs,...

Barnes And Noble Closes Lincoln Center Store

San Francisco Examiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

SAN FRANCISCO -- A chain bookstore anchoring a condominium complex in the center of a revived South Beach is going out of business in October amid nei...

Think Twice Before Taking a Paper Receipt

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jonathan A. Schein

When shopping, how many times do you hear the cashier ask, "Would you like a receipt"? And how many times do you take one? Well, here's some eye-ope...

Best And Worst Sustainable Seafood Supermarkets (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Greenpeace has released the fourth update of their Carting Away the Oceans report, where they give us the latest review of the best and worst sustaina...

Morgan Stanley Downplays Wal-Mart's "Bite"

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Al Norman

Why did Morgan Stanley decide to low-key Wal-Mart's impact on its rivals? Could it be that Morgan Stanley's comments were not helpful to it's partner Wal-Mart's stock? When do the anti-trust discussions begin?

Tiger Woods Gatorade Bottle Trial Could End Friday

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

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