The recent surge in covid-19 cases is exacerbating labor challenges at big US food and coffee chains such as Starbucks, Chipotle, and McDonald’s, all of which have struggled to hire and retain workers throughout the pandemic.
Extreme weather and supply-chain snarls are among the reasons for shortages in grocery stores. Here’s another: Unvaccinated truck drivers.
During the pandemic, Americans have faced notably higher food bills.
Farmers will soon be able to operate a 30,000 lbs John Deere tractor from an app.
Oat milk latte lovers, rejoice: Paying extra for your milk substitute may soon be a thing of the past.
Profits of big meatpacking companies have soared in the pandemic. Now the Biden administration is going after the industry, putting blame on big corporations for increasing their earnings at the expense of both farmers and consumers.
2021 has been a year of pay gains for low-wage workers in the US.
Food prices globally have seen large hikes this year, making oats and coffee futures the fastest-growing commodities this year.
Cream cheese has become the latest casualty of pandemic-related supply snags, with food manufacturers to bagel shops reporting shortages of the ingredient.
In a tight US labor market, unionized workers have been demanding more. But labor is perhaps starting to lose the upper hand.
Haley Sacks’s Instagram feed is heavy on celebrity gossip and fashion memes. But the influencer, who goes by MrsDowJones, wants her followers to eventually afford that lifestyle, not just aspire to it.
At a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, baristas formed a union this week, marking the company’s first unionized location out of more than 8,000 corporate-owned stores in the US.
Marc Lore, the founder of Jet.com, is betting on the future of food delivery.
DoorDash has now entered the super-fast grocery delivery space. Today, the food delivery company said it is offering customers in New York City delivery in 10 to 15 minutes. The deliveries will be fulfilled from a new DashMart, which is essentially a convenience store offering a range of some 2,000 grocery items and household goods.
In October, Dollar Tree said that it expanded its partnership with Instacart to now include same-delivery from nearly 7,000 stores. Last month, Dollar General announced it was partnering with DoorDash to provide delivery in under an hour from more than 10,000 locations with the aim of reaching new customers.
In recent years, big food companies from Nestle to Danone have pledged to reduce carbon emissions. But how exactly are they going to reach those goals?
The covid-19 pandemic upturned the restaurant industry. But while restrictions on indoor dining have eased and customers have steadily returned, the new omicron variant threatens to stall or reverse that progress. The question now facing the industry is how the variant could affect the rules for restaurants and the confidence of consumers.
You can order food, groceries, alcohol—and now, weed—on the Uber Eats app in Ontario, Canada.
Chobani filed its regulatory paperwork to go public yesterday (Nov. 17), joining Allbirds and Sweetgreen as mission-driven companies that have recently sold stock to the public or announced their intentions to do so.
Thanksgiving will be more expensive this year. The average price of a 16-pound turkey, the staple of the holiday meal, increased from $12.96 in January 2019 to $21.76 in September. Overall, in the US, consumer prices in October rose at its fastest pace since 1990, up 6.2% from last year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Tyson Foods has long been scrutinized for its working conditions, but spurred by the pandemic, which has hit the meatpacking industry hard, the company has been making improvements to its jobs.
Food delivery companies are hungry for more.
On a seven mile route between a distribution center and a Walmart store in Arkansas, the retail giant is now operating autonomous trucks without a safety driver behind the wheel.