All the headlines from our Grocery Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 7 2015 // Texas grocery chain H-E-B is pulling all Blue Bell Ice Cream from store shelves as a precaution after a recall of some of the ice cream maker’s products that were connected to three deaths in Kansas.San Antonio-based...
Jul 7 2014 // The HEB supermarket chain is recalling almost 38 tons of fresh beef products over concerns that it might be contaminated with metal fragments from a failed bearing. The recall was announced Thursday by the Food Safety and...
Oct 25 2013 // A suburban St. Louis, Mo., grocery store chain has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a computer system breach that compromised the credit and debit cards of about 2.4 million customers.In a preliminary...
Apr 16 2013 // Up to 2.4 million credit cards and debit cards used by customers at Schnucks grocery stores in four states may have been compromised over a three-month period, the suburban St. Louis chain said.Schnucks Markets Inc. for...
Jul 3 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has thrown out a $2.5 million judgment for a Jackson woman who lost sight in one eye when purse-snatchers beat her in a supermarket parking lot.A Hinds County jury in 2009 found The Kroger Co....
Feb 6 2012 // A grocery lobbying organization won’t advance a liquor privatization ballot measure in 2012, but a second group announced it will seek to get an initiative before voters next November. The Idaho Federation of Reagan...
Jan 25 2012 // A grocery lobbying organization won’t advance a liquor privatization ballot measure in 2012, but a second group announced it will seek to get an initiative before voters next November.The Idaho Federation of Reagan...
Jan 23 2012 // The Kroger Co. has appealed a jury award of $2.5 million to a Jackson woman who lost sight in one eye when purse-snatchers beat her in a supermarket parking lot.The case is among dozens before the Mississippi Supreme Court...
Dec 9 2011 // There will soon be a booze-sipping grotto for grocery and big-box store shoppers in a Southern California city.The Corona City Council voted 3-2 on Wednesday to allow free instructional alcohol tastings in the retail...
Nov 8 2011 // An outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe blamed for the deaths of 29 people could be costly for grocery stores, a distributor and an auditing lab.Whole or pre-cut Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupe from Colorado-based Jensen Farms...
Sep 23 2011 // Milwaukee, Wis.-based Roundy’s Supermarkets Inc. is recalling about 360 pounds of breaded chicken breast that may have been undercooked.The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the products were sold after Sept. 13 at...
Aug 15 2011 // TheU.S. grocery and retail specialty division of Argo Insurance, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. has launched a large general liability deductible and self-insured retention (SIR) risk management...
Oct 6 2010 // Chartis has introduced XSEnhanced: Grocers, the fourth in the XSEnhanced suite of industry-specific commercial umbrella coverages developed by its Excess Casualty Division. XSEnhanced: Grocers addresses many of the unique...
Oct 1 2010 // About half the households in Plaquemines Parish, La., are using photocopied form letters to ask for grocery money without any documentation to back up their claims, says the administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil...
Nov 5 2009 // Fire officials say six people, including four firefighters, were taken Tuesday to a hospital because of a toxic spill inside a supermarket in Irvine. Orange County Fire Authority Captain Greg McKeown said firefighters were...
Oct 15 2009 // AAU Comp, a subsidiary of USG Holdings, has introduced a new Grocery Store Program. This program is designed for the retail industry and will be based out of AAU’s new location in El Segundo, Calif.Targeted classes...
Jun 1 2009 // Only those customers who weren’t reimbursed for fraudulent charges may sue the Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain over a data breach that exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers to computer hackers, a...
May 14 2009 // Only those customers who weren’t reimbursed for fraudulent charges may sue the Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain over a data breach that exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers to computer hackers, a...
Oct 20 2008 // Agribusiness insurance has grown significantly as food production has become a global commodity. Since World War II there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of family farms and acreage being cultivated for food...
Jul 24 2008 // Grocery chain H-E-B has announced a voluntary recall of products containing fresh jalapenos after government inspectors found a strain of salmonella on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno pepper handled in Texas.The recall was...