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A Wish For All Men

Angie Harmon | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Safeway, Stand Up to Cancer, Angie Harmon, Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Prostate Cancer Screening, Prostate Cancer Awareness, Impact News
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.

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

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Graduation, Safeway, Economics, Obesity Epidemic, Budget, Incentives, Obesity, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
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.

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Safeway Claims Big Change In Its Pork Will Come

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Pig Gestation Crates, Safeway, Mercy for Animals, Humane Society, Safeway Gestation Crates, Hormel-Gestation-Crates, Safeway Pork, Brian Dowling, Gestation Crates, Food News

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...

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

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Caribou Coffee, Kraft Foods, Video, Safeway, Good-News, Reach Education, Martha's Table, #GoodSpotting, Inc., David Gregory, Barnes and Noble, The Case Foundation, Global Giving, Supporting the Troops, Impact News

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 ...

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Guard Fired After Nabbing Child Who Ate From Box

AP | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Child Eating From Box, Guard Fired, Safeway, Alissa Jones, 4-Year-Old at Supermarket, Parents News

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...

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Grocer Drops $5 Sandwich Theft Charges After Uproar

AP | JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Zofia Leszczynski, Groceries, Video, Safeway, Marcin Leszczynski, Steal, Nicole Leszczynski, Child Services, Sandwich, Theft, Parents, Family, Crime News

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

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

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Safeway, Video, Grocery Theft, Grocery Stores, Food Theft, Child Protective Services, Safeway Grocery Store, Theft, Accidental Theft, Crime News

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

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Coffee Growers File Class-Action Suit Against Safeway

AP | By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Kona Coffee Safeway, Safeway, Kona Coffee Hawaii, Safeway Coffee, Kona Coffee, Coffee, Food News

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

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Do Frozen Meals Free Us Or Turn Us Into Barbarians?

Anneli Rufus | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Kosher, Sukhi's, Tv Dinners, Safeway, Moe's, Readymade, Trader Joe's, Frozen Food, Food News
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?

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

Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Safeway, Video, Food Network, Guinness World Records, Slidepollajax, World's Largest Picnic Table, Marina Green, Weird San Francisco, Tyler Florence, Weird News 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...

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Sex and the Salad.

Meredith Fineman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Safeway, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Patti Stanger, Humor, Sex, Meredith-Fineman, Dating, Food, Supermarkets, Fifty First (J)Dates, Love, Healthy Living News
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,...

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Barnes And Noble Closes Lincoln Center Store

San Francisco Examiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chain Stores, Safeway, Valencia, Modern Times, Stonestown, Union Square, Booksellers, Borders, South Beach, Closing Bookstores, Bookstores, San Francisco, Amazon, Books News

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...

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Think Twice Before Taking a Paper Receipt

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bpa, Walmart, Whole Foods, Time Magazine, Carcinogens, Bank of America, Target, Environmental Working Group, Safeway, U.S. Postal Service, Jonathan-a-Schein, Scheinmedia, Starbucks, McDonald's, Bisphenol A, CVS Pharmacies, Metrogreenbusinesscom, Green News
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...

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Best And Worst Sustainable Seafood Supermarkets (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trader Joe's, Safeway, Whole Foods, Costco, Food Politics, Slidepollajax, Target, Sustainable Seafood, Green Living, Greenpeace, Wal-Mart, Seafood, Green News

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...

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Morgan Stanley Downplays Wal-Mart's "Bite"

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Trust, Safeway, Morgan Stanley Real Estate, Supervalu, Kroger, Wal-Mart, China, Business News
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?

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Tiger Woods Gatorade Bottle Trial Could End Friday

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: King Soopers, Safeway, Tiger Woods, Gatorade, 'Unfaithful' Gatorade Bottles, Fbi, Fake Gatorade Bottles, Jason Kay, Gatorade Woods Jason Kay, Denver Man Labels Gatorade Bottles, Gatorade Bottles Tiger Woods, Denver News

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Grocery Store Employee Catches Purse Snatcher, Gets Fired

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Safeway, Randalls, Randalls Purse Snatcher, Texas Randalls, Randalls Fires Manager, Purse Snatcher, Business News
Jackson Williams

A produce manager at a Randalls grocery store in Texas followed a purse snatcher in hot pursuit, catching up to the perp. The purse was retrieved, but he was ultimately fired over the incident.

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Five Items You Should Always Recycle

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rechargeable Batteries, iPod Recycling, Recycling Tips, Recycling Electronics, E-Waste, Home Office, Radioshack, Green Home Office, Landfill, Call2recycle, MP3 Players, Recyclebank, Kroger, Recycling, Reusable Bags, Laptops, Recycling Computers, Safeway, Home Office Supplies, Recycling Batteries, Electronics Recycling, Home Depot, Recycle, Laptop Recycling, Recycling Cell Phones, Recycling mp3 Players, Plastic Bags, Best Buy, Electronic Waste, Natural Home, Natural Home Magazine, Green News
Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Recycling is one of the easiest steps you can take toward living green--but some recycling matters more than others.

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Safeway, King Soopers To Submit "Last, Best And Final" Contract On Monday

The Colorado Springs Gazette | Wayne Heilman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Grocery Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers International, Ufcw, Safeway, Kind Soopers, Alberston's, Denver News

Unionized grocery workers across Colorado expect to vote next week on a "last, best and final" contract offered by King Soopers and Safeway. The un...

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Health Care Savings May Start In Employee Diets

nytimes.com | Melanie Warner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Food, Diets, Cafeteria, Obesity, Eating Healthy, Wellness, Safeway, Stroke, Dieting, Health, Health Care Reform, Full Yield, Food, Medicare, Health Care, Heart Attack, Healthy Living News

A company called Full Yield is undertaking its own version of health care reform by using a low-tech premise: Eat healthier food and you'll become hea...

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Don't Get Too Excited by Green Shoots, They Might Turn Brown

Jenny Darroch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neiman Marcus, Marketing Strategy, Employment, Consumer Spending, Economic Growth, Safeway, Recession, Google, Dow Jones, Business News
Jenny Darroch

As we frantically look for evidence of economic recovery, we need to take care not to mistake all measures as signs that everything is back to normal.

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Safeway Workers Reject Store's Offer; King Soopers Workers Accept

Colorado Springs Gazette | Wayne Heilman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Grocery Unions, King Soopers, Ufcw, Safeway, Colorado Local 7, Denver News

Unionized Colorado workers accepted a last, best and final contract offer from King Soopers but rejected a similar offer from Safeway in mail ballotin...

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United Food And Commercial Workers, Local 7, Can't Get Approval For Strike From National Leadership

The Denver Post | Steve Raabe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: King Soopers, Ernest Duran, Ufcw, Safeway, Denver Grocery Strike, United Food and Commercial Workers, Denver Grocery Workers, Denver News

Friction between Colorado grocery-worker union officials and their national leadership could once again derail or delay a strike during the crucial ho...

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King Soopers, Safeway Offer 'Ratification Bonuses' To Workers

Westword | Michael Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: King Soopers, Colorado Grocery Strike, Safeway, UFCW Local 7, Colorado Grocery Union, Denver News

The big news: a "ratification bonus," in gift card form, of up to $1,000 if voters approve the contract. The implication: the firms want to do anythin...

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Colorado Grocery Store Union Rejects Latest Offer, Some Authorize Strike

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: King Soopers, Colorado Grocery Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers, Kroger, Albertsons, Grocery Workers Strike, Grocery Workers Union, Safeway, City Market, Denver News

DENVER — A union representing Colorado grocery workers says members statewide have voted to reject the latest contract offers from Safeway and t...

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