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The Sugar Policy Alliance is urging Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to increase sugar import quotas for the current fiscal year and the upcoming year to avoid shortages.
In 2006, it was E. coli found on spinach. In 2007, it was contaminated seafood imports and later, contaminated frozen hamburger patties. 2008 saw the largest beef recall in U.S. history, followed by a huge salmonella outbreak that was mistakenly...
Failure to comply with federal, state and union labor regulations cost retailers from a cross-section of trade categories an average of $250,000 in fines over the past 12 months, according to a new study from AMR Research here. Wal-Mart Stores has...
President Obama paid a visit to a Kroger store in Bristol, Va., last week to drum up support for his health care reform initiative. Part of the reason that we're doing this town hall here at Kroger is because Kroger provides health insurance to...
A Los Angeles city ordinance that required certain supermarket operators to retain workers when a store changed ownership has been declared unconstitutional by the Second District Court of Appeals here, upholding a 2008 trial court ruling.
AMRFailure to comply with federal, state and union labor regulations cost retailers from a cross-section of trade categories an average of $250,000 in fines over the past 12 months, according to a new study from AMR Research.
Legislative leaders last week were reportedly discussing possible changes to the Employee Free Choice Act specifically removing the card check provision that would make it easier for unions to organize but retailers remain vehemently opposed to...
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores, in a letter sent this week to three committee chairmen who endorse health care reform bill H.R. 3200, recommends changes to the average manufacturer price definition and AMP multiplier in calculating...
A bipartisan coalition of congressmen introduced a bill last week to slow rising food prices by redirecting subsidies for gasoline refiners who use corn ethanol to the producers of “second-generation” biofuels made from waste products.