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Coalition launches global food loss and waste standard

By Annie Baxter

June 06, 2016

A prep cook at a San Francisco restaurant drops apple skins into a food scrap recycling container. — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Global food loss and waste cost up to $940 billion a year.

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Hundreds of thousands lose food stamps in Florida

By Wilson Sayre

June 01, 2016

Homeless people line up for food given out by a church group in downtown Miami. — Wilson Sayre/WLRN

Some states are reinstating proof of work.

POSTED IN: SNAP proof of work food stamps homelessness

Food labels to show 'added sugar' amounts in products

By Annie Baxter

May 20, 2016

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The FDA is updating the Nutrition Facts panel on packaged foods and beverages.

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Department stores face an uncertain future

By Mark Garrison

May 12, 2016

Pedestrians walk by Macy's flagship store in Herald Square on May 11, 2016 in New York, New York. The retailer faces a second year of sales declines, overall sales fell 7.4 percent to $5.77 billion in the quarter ended April 30. — Spencer Platt/Getty Images

To compete, they've got to completely transform themselves.

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Target wants to know how you think about groceries

By Annie Baxter

May 12, 2016

Seijen Takamura, the lead designer with the Food + Future coLab, talks to target shopper Nedra Henry. — Jeffrey Thompson

Target is testing how shoppers respond to information about foods' origins and freshness.

POSTED IN: Target Big Food grocery GMO

Instacart workers feel sting of pay restructure

May 11, 2016

Fernando Elvira loves delivering for Instacart but he hopes to someday get hired as an actual employee. — Sam Harnett/Marketplace

Recent pay changes have left some Instacart workers rethinking the gig economy

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FDA says it's time to look again at food labeling claims

By Sally Herships

May 10, 2016

Kind bars were the subject of discussion recently when it came down to the semantics of what can be labeled as "healthy" per FDA rules. — John Parra/Getty Images for SOBEWFF®

Reevaluating dietary guidelines to help consumers decide what's healthy

POSTED IN: food labeling FDA Health

The New York Times gets in the food delivery game

May 06, 2016

Food apps aren't just coming from Silicon Valley anymore. — DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images

Because we really needed another one.

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Dispatch, Ep 14: It's a meal delivery apocalypse

May 05, 2016

A meal option prepared from Blue Apron ingredients. — Tony Wagner/Marketplace

Have we reached peak food delivery apps?

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