Harris Teeter has begun testing self-service kiosks that allow shoppers to renew their driver’s license or state ID in three stores in North Carolina.
“These are in Kroger stores all over the country, and it seems to have been very successful in other states,” Marty Homan, a spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, told Supermarket News.
He said plans call for the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles to roll the NCDMV Express kiosks out to six additional Harris Teeter locations by this summer, plus one location on the Fort Liberty military base. Homan said 19 of the first…
Dollar General sees the future. And it’s not self-checkout.
The retailer is so sure of this, it’s invested $150 million in labor in order to increase the number of store employees, and especially to give a boost to a new opportunity it’s testing out: the assisted checkout.
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On Thursday, during a fourth quarter earnings call, Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos laid out his plans for an increased customer experience within the discount store: a big boost in customer-facing store employees, as well as an increase in inventory management and a bigger investment…
New data from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) shows there are no food safety risks with the use of everyday food packaging materials such as plastic and paper.
A recent MPI study on New Zealand foods looked at the transfer of chemicals from a range of food packaging types onto foods and whether or not this posed a risk to public health.
MPI Acting Manager Food Risk Assessment Dr Andrew Pearson says we sampled 74 various packaged and takeaway foods and tested them to see if any traces of chemicals from the packaging had transferred to the food.
“We…
After over nine years of fundraising and planning, McHenry County’s first co-op grocery store will open May 15 in Woodstock.
The Food Shed Co-Op is a community-owned and -controlled grocery store located at 2390 Lake Shore Drive, near the border of Crystal Lake. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 9 am May 15 with giveaways and sales, according to a news release.
“The co-op is committed to offering shoppers access to affordable quality foods and teaching people about the foods they eat,” Food Shed community outreach director Sue Jensen said in the news release.
Construction of the 9,000-square-foot store…
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 6, 2023 — Agriculture is one of the hardest human activities to decarbonize; people must eat, but the land-use practices associated with growing crops account for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions evaluate a new solution to this problem, one that eliminates farms altogether.
In a study published today in Nature Sustainability, the UCI-led team of scientists assess the potential for widescale synthetic production of dietary fats through chemical and biological processes. The raw materials for this method are the same as those used by…
EFSA has updated its safety assessment of the food additive titanium dioxide (E 171), following a request by the European Commission in March 2020.
The updated evaluation reviews the outcome of EFSA’s previous assessment published in 2016, which highlighted the need for more research to fill data gaps.
Prof Maged Younes, Chair of EFSA’s expert Panel on Food Additives and Flavorings (FAF), said: “Taking into account all available scientific studies and data, the Panel concluded that titanium dioxide can no longer be considered safe as a food additive A substance deliberately added to foods or beverages for beneficial technological reasons…
Amid shelves of aloe juice, edamame and pomelo fruit, shoppers and employees chat as ambient flute music plays overhead.
Flags from around the world hanging above the aisles move slightly in the HVAC breeze — Kuwait dances with China, Singapore and Ethiopia overlook the produce aisle.
It’s only fitting for the biggest international grocery store in both North and South Dakota: the Asian and American Supermarket. It’s celebrating just over one year at its new location.Co-owner John Huynh picks up a ramen package, one of many varieties at the Asian and American Supermarket in Fargo.
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A lot of folks remember Andrews Grocery Store that used to sit on St. Vincent Avenue in the Caddo Heights neighborhood.
Here are a few pictures that we found of it at the Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS. Our cousins Roy, Deidra Dixon and Teri Dixon Mays’s mom and dad, Buddy and Margaret Dixon, had a tab there. We thought it was so cool that we didn’t have to pay for stuff and that all we had to do was put it on their tab.Betty Andrews Osborn shared a painting of the original two-story Andrews Grocery store.
In a…