Massive fire engulfs NYC supermarket, spreads to 4 buildings, displacing 30
A massive fire broke out at a Brooklyn supermarket Wednesday night, injuring seven people and forcing the evacuation of about 30 residents, which quickly spread to four nearby apartment buildings. The fire broke out just before 6 p.m. inside Krista’s Kitchen & Market on Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick and escalated to at least a five-alarm […]
Fined £6,000 for tiny mistake: carer penalised for extra shift at supermarket | Carers
IIn the spring of 2018, Helen Grater’s world began to fall apart. Her partner, Mark Young, then 55, had been diagnosed with throat cancer. He also suffered from lung disease. He was dying and in dire need of her care. Ms Grater took unpaid leave from her low-paid job at Sainsbury’s and withdrew £64.80 a […]
Syrian Arrested Over Stabbing of Four-Year-Old Girl at Supermarket
Police said the attack at the grocery store appeared to be random and that the suspect and the “severely injured” child victim appeared to be unrelated. German police arrested a 34-year-old Syrian immigrant with a Dutch passport on Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of stabbing a passerby at a discount supermarket in the town of Wangen, […]
A supermarket cashier flipped out at me because I wouldn’t pay for another woman’s food
Dear Abby: A while back, I was in line at the grocery store when a young woman with 7 or 8 items ran back to retrieve the groceries she had left on her belt and interrupted the checkout process. Did. It happens. Understood. She was buying name brand foods, including an $8 jar of spaghetti […]
Mom’s simple hack to score free groceries at the supermarket checkout
My 85-year-old father-in-law is a bit picky about rules. He is an avid reader of CHOICE magazine and knows his rights when it comes to consumer law. When he recently told me that supermarkets give away products for free if you scan them at the register and get a high score, I was initially skeptical. […]
Justice Department intends to seek death penalty for Buffalo supermarket shooter Payton Gendron
The Justice Department said in a court filing Friday that it will seek the death penalty for Buffalo supermarket gunman Peyton Gendron. Gendron, 20, is already serving a life sentence without parole after pleading guilty to state charges of murder and hate-motivated domestic terrorism in the May 2022 attack that killed 10 Black people at […]
PepsiCo products removed from supermarket giant’s shelves over ‘unacceptable’ price hikes
European supermarket chain Carrefour has removed PepsiCo products from its shelves, saying the price hikes are “unacceptable”. This issue is being raised by other major companies in the industry as well. The chain, which has more than 12,000 stores worldwide, is stocking PepsiCo Pepsi and 7Up sodas, Lipton teas and Quaker foods from shelves in […]