grocery store

A new proposal suggests freezing prices on staple foods — but economists warn price controls could bring shortages and other unintended consequences.

Grocers pay a lower rate than other businesses and they tend to have more recurring customers, making them less likely to implement credit card surcharges.

In the five years that Sam Newell and her husband have run Fruit Fair in Chicopee, Massachusetts, they haven’t had a profitable year.

Natalie Adams in Everett, Washington finds her job as producer clerk “absolutely gratifying.”

People are coming back to brick-and-mortar supermarkets after a spike in grocery delivery early in the pandemic, industry insiders say.

Anything that could be canned got canned. Anything that could be boxed got boxed.

And not just because they’re more affordable.

They’re about supply chains.

When grocery stores close, critics say restrictive covenants — clauses in grocery store leases that says a landlord can't rent the space to another grocer — can lead to food deserts.

But how easy will it be for the dairy product to lose its dowdy reputation?