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Amazon's Whole Foods Eyeing Vacant Sears Sites: Reports

Amazon's Whole Foods operation is reportedly eyeing up vacant Sears sites as potential locations for expansion, according to reports. Department store c...

Holy Guacamole! Mexican Fuel Shortage Threatens Super Bowl Snack

Super Bowl fans may have to go without guacamole this year if avocado farmers in Mexico cannot send their fruit to the United States because of a prolonged...

French Producers Attack US Decision On Foie Gras Ban

French foie gras makers have accused the US supreme court of bowing to false claims by vegetarian lobbyists with its refusal to hear an appeal against a Ca...

Kroger Collaborates With Microsoft For Digital Store Experience

US supermarket chain Kroger has teamed up with technology giant Microsoft to transform customer experiences through digital innovation. The retailer wil...

Building New Specialty Coffee Benchmarks To Secure Better Prices, Supplies

Buyers and sellers of specialty coffee, increasingly worried about future supplies of high quality beans, are finding new ways to price their coffee after...

Kraft Heinz Completes Acquisition Of Primal Kitchen

Food giant Kraft Heinz has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Primal Nutrition, LLC - the makers of Primal Kitchen branded products. Pri...

China Allows First-Ever US Rice Imports Ahead Of Trade Talks

China has opened the door to imports of rice from the United States for the first time ever in what analysts took to signal a warming of relations between...

US Holiday Shopping Season ‘Best In Six Years’: Report

Sales during the U.S. holiday shopping season rose 5.1% to over $850 billion in 2018, the strongest in the past six years, according to a Mastercard report...