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  • Grocery Strike Probable in Bay Area

    Safeway and Albertson's on Tuesday offered their 28,000 unionized workers in Northern California a contract that includes a proposed wage increase the union has said for several months is unacceptable. The union said a strike is very probable as early as Oct. 8.

  • GMA's Molpus Named to USDA/USTR's Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee

    C. Manly Moplus, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, was appointed on Monday to the United States Department of Agriculture and the Office of the United States Trade Representative's Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade (APAC).

  • Harris Teeter Sued by Black Employees

    Nine current and former African-American employees of Harris Teeter Inc. are seeking a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit against the North Carolina-based chain and its parent, Ruddick Corp., according to an article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

  • Government Figures Show Grocers Aren't Passing Sugar Savings on to Consumers

    New government figures reveal that, while the priceAmerican farmers receive for their sugar has been running at its lowest level in more than two decades, the big grocers nationwide have jacked up the price they charge consumers for sugar to a 20-year high.

  • Purina Mills Stockholders Approve Merger

    Purina Mills Inc. announced on Wednesday that its stockholders have approved Purina Mills proposed merger with a subsidiary of Land O'Lakes.

  • Florida Leaders Say Diet Foods are 'Massive Fraud' on Consumers

    Calling it a "massive fraud" perpetrated against consumers, a Florida state senator and the state's Agriculture and Consumer Services commissioner on Tuesday said that all 67 products sampled in a sweep of area diet food shops had inaccurate or illegal labels.

  • Northern California Clerks and Meatcutter Union Reaches Agreement with Area Retailers

    United Food and Commercial Workers 588-Northern California today announced that it had reached tentative Agreement on a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement for its over 7,000 members who work in area Raley's, Bel Air and Nob Hill Foods supermarkets.

  • Supermarket Giants Avoid Damaging Strike

    Two of the nation's leading supermarket retailers avoided a potentially crippling strike over the weekend when more than 22,000 employees of Albertson's and Safeway agreed to extend their contracts until midnight Sept. 8.
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