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Kroger turns spoiled food into electricity; how do you reduce waste?
As supermarkets try to figure out how to cut down on waste and experiment with alternative forms of energy, Kroger Co. says it's doing both simultaneously by turning landfill-bound organic matter into electricity that powers its stores, The Times'...
Tags: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Breads, Bananas, Natural Resources Defense Council
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A powerful use for spoiled food
What happens to the 40% of food produced but never eaten in the U.S. each year, the mounds of perfect fruit passed over by grocery store shoppers, the tons of meat and milk left to expire? At Ralphs, one of the oldest and largest supermarket chains on...
Tags: Energy, Solar Energy, Whole Foods Market, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy
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Tesco to pull out of U.S. and sell Fresh & Easy markets
The British are leaving. Five years after launching the Fresh & Easy grocery chain in the U.S., Tesco of England is abandoning its nearly $2-billion gamble. Once called "foolhardy" by investment guru Warren Buffett, the ambitious experiment joins a...
Tags: Food Industry, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Consumers, Panera Bread Company, Tesco plc
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Giving a charge to grocery shoppers: More places to plug in
San Francisco-based Ecotality Inc., which operates the nation's second-largest network of public electric charging stations for vehicles, announced today that it plans to install 225 new chargers at Kroger Co. stores in California and Arizona. Kroger is...
Tags: Hyundai, Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Hybrid Vehicles
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Wal-Mart, Kroger said to be bidding for Twinkies maker Hostess
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Ralph’s owner Kroger Co. and Sara Lee parent Grupo Bimbo are all said to be in the running to buy up assets from liquidating Twinkies maker Hostess, according to a report this week. The companies, along with Midwest baked...
Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace, Bankruptcy, Employees
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There's little privacy in a digital world
During his two-hour morning bike ride, Eric Hartman doesn't pay much attention to his iPhone.
But the iPhone is paying attention to him.
As he traverses the 30-mile circuit around Seal Beach, Hartman's iPhone knows precisely where he is at every moment,...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Television, Glee (tv program), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Germany
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'Pink slime's' Beef Products Inc.: Hard knock for a good company?
Beef Products Inc. told the Associated Press on Monday that it’ll shut down operations at three of the four plants where it makes the meat product that critics have nastily taken to calling “pink slime.” But some food industry experts...
Tags: Supervalu Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, Food Industry, Consumer Goods Industries, Safeway Inc.
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Ralphs supermarkets fined over pricing discrepancies
L.A. NOWJudge Gloria Trask on April 27 issued an injunction requiring all Ralphs and Food 4 Less stores in Riverside County to hire a “pricing integrity coordinator” for each store to ensure that information on store shelf tags was accurate.... -
Southern California Food 4 Less workers authorize Kroger strike [Updated]
Money & CompanyWorkers at Food 4 Less say they'll strike if Kroger doesn't give them better wages and benefits... -
Tensions mount as Southern California grocery workers protest outside employers' offices
Money & CompanyAs tensions continue to rise between labor and Southern California’s three leading grocery chains, hundreds of workers rallied outside of the local headquarters of Albertsons, Vons and Ralphs on Tuesday to protest possible cuts to their healthcare... -
Grocery workers give notice to cancel labor contract [Updated]
Money & CompanyIn a bid to speed up negotiations that have dragged on for more than eight months, union officials representing supermarket workers in Southern California took one step closer Thursday night to going on strike. Their move: Officials from the United...... -
Grocery strike avoided; deal called 'win-win' for both sides
Money & CompanyOfficials with the United Food and Commercial Workers confirmed Monday that they had reached a three-year labor contract with Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons, averting a grocery strike that would have idled more than 54,000 workers across Southern California....
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