Pathmark celebrates 40th anniversary, Solar Panels expanding in stores, Primary Results and Wednesday Morning One Liners...

Image via Wikipedia

Morning Read: 09/10/2008

All 139 Pathmark stores will celebrate the chain’s 40th anniversary this Saturday with special giveaways and discounts, according to A&P here.
Read more of this story

 

Online grocer FreshDirect has partnered with LaGuardia Community College to offer 60 plant workers free weekly English classes. The 30-hour program will end on Oct. 23.

The Food Emporium will host a “Taste of Africa” food sampling from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at its BridgeMarket store at 405 East 59th St.
Read more of this story

 

The New York Times writes about new grocery store trends.

Wal-Mart, Macy's, Kohl's, BJ's Wholesale Club, Target, Staples and Whole Foods are among the chains that have begun putting solar panels on their roofs.

As Wal-Mart Stores prepares to open its first Marketside locations in the Phoenix area, the company is reportedly scouting locations in Southern California as well, the Financial Times of London reported yesterday.
Read more of this story

 

Newsday writes on the continuing rise of food prices & declining fuel prices.

Wal-Mart is being sued for many violations in NJ.

The Dubai Balducci's is revolutionary for the Middle East, being cited as "unbelievable".

The Illinois Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Wal-Mart in federal court on behalf of a Rockford woman who claims she was fired because she had epilepsy.

Politics

Here are the 2008 Primary Election results.

Mike McMahon, 74 percent
Steve Harrison, 26 percent

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver soundly beat challengers Paul Newell and Luke Henry by capturing 68 percent of the vote with 6,743 ballots. Newell received 2,301 votes and Henry 879.

McCain camp released an ad that claims Obama wants Sex Education for Kindergartners.

Interesting article on Palin, her plane and prepared comments.

Mayor Bloomberg is still mulling over term limits.

--------------------------------------------------

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
  - Bill Vaughan

Growth of 'Small-Box' stores, Wal-Mart hikes up Gas Prices in the midst of an evacuation, Tuesday Morning One Liners...

Image via Wikipedia

09/09/2008

The Daily News did a story on the first ever King Kullen located 171-06 Jamaica Ave.

Wal-Mart Hiked up their gas prices in Texas during a Hurricane evacuation. People aren't really happy about that.

Whole Foods VP was named to Organic Center board.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Wegmans Food Markets here has announced that it is increasing the availability of sustainable packaging and sustainable containers in its fresh food areas,
 according to the company’s website.

Stop & Shop has dropped their suit against Whole Foods.

An editorial in Supermarket News notes the growing trend and interest in "Small-Box Stores"

Political

Finally someone writes about McCain/Palin campaign not pushing policy issues, but their personal stories, making them America's favorite couple.

When it comes to support for Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, a new national poll suggests men and women don't see eye to eye.

The Washington Post goes through Palin and her families traveling expenses.

In a speech last night, Obama warned Palin not to "Mock the Constitution"

Locally, the Daily News covered the Addabbo race.

Wal-Mart pays employees in store vouchers, Monday Morning One Liners....

Image by aflcio2008 via Flickr

Price Chopper Supermarkets last week said it has broken ground on a new store that would be New York's first LEED-certified supermarket.
Read more of this story

 

The NY Times had a blast at the Labor Day Parade.

The  NJ AG is going after Wal-Mart for continually selling expired baby formula.

Wal-Mart is getting crushed in Mexico for handing out store vouchers as payment to workers.

A Philadelphia judge has affirmed a $185 million award against retail titan Wal-Mart in a class action alleging underpayment of Wal-Mart employees as part of an opinion written for an appeal now pending with the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

To promote it’s new small gourmet grocery store — A Taste of Market Street — in Frisco, Texas, United Supermarkets in Texas is running a “Free Fuel” promotion Sept. 5-Nov. 1.
Read more of this story

 

The 2009 outlook for the food industry, particularly the packaged goods segment, is negative, Moody's Investors Service here said yesterday.
Read more of this story

 

Political


Errol Lewis: The ugly spectacle last week of hearing GOP leaders direct scorn at community organizers - all community organizers - displayed a level of contempt for grass-roots democracy that was downright un-American.


Oprah Winfrey, daytime television star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on her talk show.


Primary battle for Vito's seat turns into 'blood sport' The battle to succeed Rep. Vito Fossella is getting as ugly as the scandal that drove him from office. Republicans Robert Straniere and Jim Wyne are locked in a bitter primary duel that included Straniere's allegation that his opponent was hiding his Muslim heritage from voters.


John Edwards cancels Hofstra event Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards is canceling all public appearances until after the November election -- including a Monday event at Hofstra University -

Mike Lupica doesn’t approve of Bloomberg’s search for a third term.

THE Post today enthusiastically urges the election of Sen. John S. McCain as the 44th president of the United States.

A new USA Today-Galllup poll shows John McCain leading Barack Obama, 50-46.

Organizers say Columbia University will host a Sept. 11 community service forum featuring John McCain and Barack Obama.

BJ's in Red Hook and more top news....

Image via Wikipedia

Plans to bring BJ’s Wholesale Club, potentially the second big box retailer in Red Hook, sent a shiver of excitement and mild horror through the neighborhood this week.

 Worsening product price inflation -- with many food products exceeding 5% cost increases -- is making for a "painful" environment for A&P and its shoppers, Christian Haub, executive chairman of the Montvale, N.J.-based retailer, said in remarks at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference on Wednesday.
Read more of this story

 

Delhaize Group here on Wednesday released its first "Corporate Responsibility Report," highlighting the retailer's accomplishments in areas such as the environment and health and wellness.
Read more of this story

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., said yesterday it has established a new regional headquarters for Asia here to oversee its operations in China, India and Japan and to identify new business opportunities throughout Asia.
Read more of this story

 

Wal-Mart unveiled a new Smart Network in-store TV system on Wednesday that it said will function as the first "shopper-intelligent network at retail.

Boeing Co.'s largest labor union voted to strike Wednesday night, but the union agreed to postpone a walkout for 48 hours after federal mediators urged both sides to return to the bargaining table in a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.

Political

On the second consecutive night, a lot of the rhetoric at the Republican convention Wednesday evening seemed left over from the last cycle when the fight against terrorism dominated the race.

Gowanus Whole Foods update, Tuesday Morning One Liners...

Image via Wikipedia

Morning Read: 09/02/2008

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union said it has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against 2 Sisters Food Group, the primary supplier of prepared foods for Tesco-owned Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, over the alleged firing of six workers.
Read more of this story

 

BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. announced that Herb Zarkin, Chairman and CEO; Laura Sen, President and COO and Frank Forward, CFO will speak at the Goldman Sachs 15^th Annual Global Retail Conference on September 4, 2008 at 10:25 a.m. Eastern Time at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

NY1 covers Zagats reviews of Amish Market & Agata and Valentina.

The owner of two grocery stores in Bethesda, Md., was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison last week for failure to collect and pay payroll taxes, according to a statement by the Department of Justice.
Read more of this story

 

Here's a blog covering the small progress of the Gowanus Whole Foods.

Agriprocessors, the Brooklyn-based company that is the nation’s largest kosher meat producer, is well known for the labor troubles at its meatpacking plant in Iowa — federal agents detained 389 of its workers as illegal immigrants in May, and labor officials in Iowa have accused it of employing 57 under-age workers.

Stretching your dollar at Whole Foods.

Editorial: Grocery Stores gear up for food fight.

Denver Post: As labor numbers continue to slip, big labor makes a big political push.

Wal-Mart Stores here has transformed more that 1,700 of its Garden Centers into one-stop shops for football tailgaiters. 
Read more of this story

An industry coalition last week submitted a petition to put a measure on the ballot in Seattle, calling for the repeal of a 20-cent tax on both paper and plastic grocery bags, according to reports.
Read more of this story

 

At least 56 people were arrested Monday after police fired projectiles and used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse a crowd demonstrating near the site of the Republican National Convention.