Latest Grocery Headlines
All the headlines from our Grocery Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Grocery Store Chain Settles Suit Alleging Sexual Harassment, Disability Discrimination
Jun 26 2024 // Regional grocery chain Weis Markets, Inc. has settled a sexual harassment and disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of an employee, the federal agency...
Farmer Protests Disrupt Belgian Supermarkets’ Supply Chain
Feb 1 2024 // Protesting farmers have blocked the distribution centers of Colruyt, one of Belgium’s biggest supermarket chains, a spokesperson confirmed, while local media reported that distribution centers of discount supermarket...
Class Action Targets Grocery Delivery Firm for Alleged Unpaid Wages
Aug 4 2023 // A delivery driver in Massachusetts has filed a proposed class action against a grocery delivery company and grocery chain for allegedly misclassifying drivers as independent contractors and not paying minimum wage,...
Buffalo Supermarket Shooting Victims Sue Facebook, Amazon, Other Tech Giants
Jul 14 2023 // Tech and social media giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google bear responsibility for radicalizing the Buffalo supermarket shooter, who was fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online, the victim’s...
Connecticut Gunmaker Sued by Son of Colorado Supermarket Shooting Victim
Mar 17 2023 // The son of one of 10 people killed at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 is suing gun-maker Sturm, Ruger & Co. over how it marketed the firearm used in the massacre – following the litigation road map set by families...
Texas-Based Supermarket Faces $1 Million in Fines over Unsafe Working Conditions
Aug 18 2022 // Despite a history of violations and worker injuries dating back almost a decade, Fiesta Mart LLC – a Houston-based supermarket operator – continues to fail in its legal obligations to protect employees. Made apparent...
Seattle Ending COVID Hazard Pay for Grocery Store Workers
Aug 5 2022 // The Seattle City Council has voted to end COVID-19 hazard pay for grocery store workers. The Seattle Times reports the council voted 5-2 on Tuesday, with Councilmembers Lisa Herbold and Teresa Mosqueda absent, to repeal a...
Grocery Chain Wegmans Settles with New York Over Data Breach
Jul 1 2022 // The supermarket chain Wegmans agreed to pay $400,000 and upgrade its security practices over a data breach that exposed personal information of more than 3 million consumers nationwide, New York Attorney General Letitia...
4 Hurt as Vegas Grocery Storefront Collapses at Opening Time
Aug 16 2021 // A storefront collapsed into rubble at a Las Vegas supermarket at opening time early Friday, injuring four people but none seriously, a fire official and witnesses said. Firefighters pulled one person from wood planking and...
Labor Commissioner Cites Three California Grocers $447K over COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave
Jul 29 2021 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited three El Super grocery stores in Southern California for failing to provide or delaying supplemental paid sick leave or other benefits to 95 workers impacted by...
Collision on Aisle 5: Jury to Decide Tastykake Grocery Crash
Jun 4 2021 // A jury must decide whether a grocery store should be held liable for a collision between a vendor’s snack food cart and a shopper riding an electric scooter, a judge ruled Wednesday. Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden...
Michigan Grocery to Pay $30K to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Jun 2 2021 // A Michigan grocery store chain denied employee a reasonable accommodation and demoted him due to disability, federal authorities say. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said Meijer Inc., a grocery...
UK Insurtech Zego Launches Flexible Cover for Food, Grocery Delivery Businesses
Apr 5 2021 // Zego, the London-based insurtech and commercial motor insurance provider, has launched two new flexible insurance products for moped and e-bike fleets in the UK. The new products, developed in partnership with Wakam,...
Tennessee AG Sues Supermarket Chain for Flooding State with Opioids
Feb 8 2021 // Tennessee’s attorney general on Thursday sued Food City over claims that the supermarket chain’s pharmacies intentionally profited from the opioid epidemic by unlawfully selling tens of millions of prescription...
SUV Crashes into Houston Supermarket; 8 People Injured
Feb 1 2021 // Eight people were hurt after an SUV crashed into a busy Houston supermarket, police said. Shoppers were inside a Fiesta Mart in south Houston around 3 p.m. on Jan. 30 when the vehicle went through the store’s front...
Seattle OKs Virus ‘Hazard Pay’ for Grocery Workers
Jan 27 2021 // Seattle has joined other cities in approving extra pay for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The City Council on this week approved legislation requiring large groceries to pay an extra $4 an hour in...
Teen Accused of Stealing Nearly $1M from Georgia Supermarket
Jan 25 2021 // A suburban Atlanta teenager has been arrested on charges that he defrauded a supermarket where he worked of nearly $1 million over a two-week period. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports 19-year-old Tre Brown was...
2 Injured in Fire that Destroyed Southwest Missouri Grocery, Mosque
Dec 30 2020 // At least two people were being treated for injuries at hospitals in southwest Missouri after a fire destroyed a grocery store and an adjacent mosque that were gathering spots for immigrants in the small town of Noel,...
Argo Checking Out of Grocery, Restaurant and Other Retail Insurance Lines
Oct 30 2020 // Specialty insurer and reinsurer Argo Group International is exiting the grocery and retail lines of business, which include providing general liability and self-insured retention risk management programs for grocery...
Grocery Chain Slow to Report Tampering at One of Its Maine Stores
Oct 16 2020 // It took two months for a supermarket chain to alert police and customers about the discovery of razor blades in fresh pizza dough sold at one if its stores in Maine, a newspaper reported. Product tampering at a store in...
