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Man shot dead across the street from popular NYC Whole Foods
A man was shot in the neck and killed across the street from a Whole Foods Market in Harlem on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The 28-year-old, identified as Javon Bradley,...
Amazon unveils Alexa-equipped supermarket with no checkout lines
The new store, in LA's Woodland Hills neighborhood, is dubbed Amazon Fresh, with Amazon has confirmed seven Fresh locations for Southern California and Chicago.
Whole Foods workers sue over alleged Black Lives Matter mask ban
More than a dozen workers sued Whole Foods after the grocery giant allegedly punished some of them for wearing "Black Lives Matter" face masks on the job. The 14 workers...
Whole Foods workers protest over Black Lives Matter mask policy
Whole Foods employees in Massachusetts reportedly walked out of the grocery in protest this week over the company’s policy prohibiting Black Lives Matter masks and gear. The manager at the...
Whole Foods monitoring stores for union activity
Whole Foods is reportedly using an "interactive heat map" to monitor its stores and flag locations that are at risk of unionizing. The Amazon-owned supermarket chain -- whose 510 stores...
Hero of the Day: Delivery man braves coronavirus to keep quarantined NYers fed
Five or six days a week, Eduardo Rojas takes the early morning 6 train from his home in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx to East 57th Street, where...
Coronavirus exposes Amazon's struggle to deliver Whole Foods services
Amazon’s moves to reduce strain on its grocery businesses by putting new online shoppers on wait lists and switching more Whole Foods resources to filling orders, is unmasking limitations at...
Amazon will not accept new grocery delivery customers amid spike in orders
The coronavirus crunch continues.
Jeff Bezos makes surprise visit to Amazon warehouse
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited one of his company's warehouses as well as a Whole Foods grocery store on Wednesday, making rare public appearances as employees have raised complaints about...
Why NYC grocery stores that cater to the rich are struggling amid coronavirus
The coronavirus has created a weird divide among the Big Apple’s grocery stores — and the supermarkets that cater to the rich have been caught on the wrong side. Initial...
Coronavirus is only making Jeff Bezos and Amazon more powerful
The world’s richest man may also be its most hated. Tuesday marked the first mass “sick-out” in Whole Foods’ 40-year-history, with workers all-too-credibly claiming the company, owned by Jeff Bezos,...
Grocery stores add sneeze guards to protect cashiers from coronavirus
Some of the nation's largest grocery store chains are installing sneeze guards to help protect their cashiers from the coronavirus. Walmart, Albertsons, Whole Foods and other grocers say they are...
NYC Whole Foods enacts 50 shopper limit amid coronavirus
At least one New York City Whole Foods on Tuesday began instituting a 50 shopper maximum due to the coronavirus outbreak -- causing customers to pack in a line that...
Whole Foods suggests workers share paid time off amid coronavirus outbreak
Whole Foods outraged its employees this week by suggesting healthy employees generously donate their unused vacation time to fellow workers who get sick during the deadly coronavirus pandemic. CEO John...
Homeless man turns Whole Foods hot bar into personal smorgasbord
Bum appétit! A drooling and pungent homeless man made double-dipping look like child’s play at a Midtown Whole Foods, grabbing from the hot food bar with his bare hands to...
Amazon wants to patent device that IDs shoppers by their hand
Amazon is one step closer to implementing its creepy, futuristic flesh-and-blood payment system. The e-tailing giant’s engineers on Thursday filed a patent application for a device that can scan a...
Lower rents, social media propel openings of new NYC stores
Creative brands are seizing opportunities in repriced storefront spaces. Despite worries of retail doom and gloom, stabilizing rents along the city’s “high street” markets are putting store leases — now...
Zach Braff and Florence Pugh get cozy at Hollywood Whole Foods
“It was very clear to me that they’re a couple.”
'I profit from animal abuse': Activists protest Bezos, Whole Foods in San Francisco
Thirty-seven animal-rights activists were reportedly arrested amid a protest outside -- and on top of -- a Whole Foods market in San Francisco on Monday.
This woman slashed her grocery bill using tricks she picked up working at Whole Foods
Beth Moncel learned how to whip up tasty meals on a lean budget — then taught millions of savings-hungry home cooks to do the same. During the recession in 2009,...