grocery stores
When Wal-Mart bypasses towns, rural America gets creative
Too small to support a big box supermarket, some rural towns are turning to alternative grocery store models to feed their populations, says High Country News. In Walsh, Colo., (pop. 600), townspeople invested in $50 shares to jumpstart a grocery store.
Last of the major supermarket chains vows to go cage-free
Publix, the country’s fifth-largest supermarket chain, became the last of the top 25 grocery companies to pledge to sell only cage-free eggs within the decade, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
California grocery workers approve a strike
In California, 47,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union have voted to approve a strike if supermarket companies Albertsons and Ralphs don’t agree to their demands, says the Los Angeles Times. The two companies also include Vons, Pavilions and all Safeway stores.
For rural grocery stores, the pandemic is personal
Grocery delivery is nothing new, and it certainly has become much more common since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. But for stores like Michigan Hometown Foods, which is the lone grocery in a town of 275 people, the process looks a lot different than it does in a larger city, as Stephanie Parker reports in FERN latest story.<strong>(No paywall)</strong>