Latest Grocery Headlines
All the headlines from our Grocery Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Supermarket Chain Recalls 38 Tons Of Fresh Beef Products
Jul 7 2014 // The HEB supermarket chain is recalling almost 38 tons of fresh beef products over concerns that it might be contaminated with metal fragments from a failed bearing. The recall was announced Thursday by the Food Safety and...
Settlement Nears in Lawsuit over Missouri Grocery Store Breach
Oct 25 2013 // A suburban St. Louis, Mo., grocery store chain has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a computer system breach that compromised the credit and debit cards of about 2.4 million customers. In a preliminary...
Missouri Grocery Chain: 2.4 Million Credit, Debit Cards at Risk
Apr 16 2013 // Up to 2.4 million credit cards and debit cards used by customers at Schnucks grocery stores in four states may have been compromised over a three-month period, the suburban St. Louis chain said. Schnucks Markets Inc. for...
Mississippi Court Throws Out Jury Award Over Supermarket Beating
Jul 3 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has thrown out a $2.5 million judgment for a Jackson woman who lost sight in one eye when purse-snatchers beat her in a supermarket parking lot. A Hinds County jury in 2009 found The Kroger...
Group to Push Idaho Liquor Vote, Grocers Back Off
Feb 6 2012 // A grocery lobbying organization won’t advance a liquor privatization ballot measure in 2012, but a second group announced it will seek to get an initiative before voters next November. The Idaho Federation of Reagan...
Group to Push Idaho Liquor Vote, Grocers Back Off
Jan 25 2012 // A grocery lobbying organization won’t advance a liquor privatization ballot measure in 2012, but a second group announced it will seek to get an initiative before voters next November. The Idaho Federation of Reagan...
Mississippi Supreme Court to Hear Grocery Store Parking Lot Beating
Jan 23 2012 // The Kroger Co. has appealed a jury award of $2.5 million to a Jackson woman who lost sight in one eye when purse-snatchers beat her in a supermarket parking lot. The case is among dozens before the Mississippi Supreme...
Alcohol Tastings In Big-Box, Grocery Stores in Southern California City
Dec 9 2011 // There will soon be a booze-sipping grotto for grocery and big-box store shoppers in a Southern California city. The Corona City Council voted 3-2 on Wednesday to allow free instructional alcohol tastings in the retail...
Listeria Lawsuits Could Target Grocers, Auditor
Nov 8 2011 // An outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe blamed for the deaths of 29 people could be costly for grocery stores, a distributor and an auditing lab. Whole or pre-cut Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupe from Colorado-based Jensen Farms...
Supermarket Recalls Chicken Sold in Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Sep 23 2011 // Milwaukee, Wis.-based Roundy’s Supermarkets Inc. is recalling about 360 pounds of breaded chicken breast that may have been undercooked. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the products were sold after Sept. 13...
Argo Launches Risk Management Program for Grocers
Aug 15 2011 // TheU.S. grocery and retail specialty division of Argo Insurance, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. has launched a large general liability deductible and self-insured retention (SIR) risk management...
Chartis Expands XSEnhanced Commercial Umbrella to Grocers
Oct 6 2010 // Chartis has introduced XSEnhanced: Grocers, the fourth in the XSEnhanced suite of industry-specific commercial umbrella coverages developed by its Excess Casualty Division. XSEnhanced: Grocers addresses many of the unique...
Feinberg Receives 4K Form Letters for Grocery Money from BP Fund
Oct 1 2010 // About half the households in Plaquemines Parish, La., are using photocopied form letters to ask for grocery money without any documentation to back up their claims, says the administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil...
Southern California Supermarket Has Toxic Spill
Nov 5 2009 // Fire officials say six people, including four firefighters, were taken Tuesday to a hospital because of a toxic spill inside a supermarket in Irvine. Orange County Fire Authority Captain Greg McKeown said firefighters were...
AAU Rolls Out New Grocery Store Program
Oct 15 2009 // AAU Comp, a subsidiary of USG Holdings, has introduced a new Grocery Store Program. This program is designed for the retail industry and will be based out of AAU’s new location in El Segundo, Calif. Targeted classes...
Judge Tosses Most Supermarket Data Breach Claims
Jun 1 2009 // Only those customers who weren’t reimbursed for fraudulent charges may sue the Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain over a data breach that exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers to computer hackers, a...
Judge Tosses Most Supermarket Data Breach Claims
May 14 2009 // Only those customers who weren’t reimbursed for fraudulent charges may sue the Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain over a data breach that exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers to computer hackers, a...
From Seed to Supermarket
Oct 20 2008 // Agricultural Risks Require the Knowledge and Skill of Specialty Agents Agribusiness insurance has grown significantly as food production has become a global commodity. Since World War II there has been a dramatic reduction...
Texas-based Grocery Chain Issues Jalapeno Recall
Jul 24 2008 // Grocery chain H-E-B has announced a voluntary recall of products containing fresh jalapenos after government inspectors found a strain of salmonella on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno pepper handled in Texas. The recall...
Grocery Chain’s Data Breach Shows Even Protected Systems Vulnerable
Mar 20 2008 // It was during the card approval process that more than 4 million customer accounts at grocery stores in the Northeast and Florida were exposed to fraud, even though the company meets the latest standards for data security,...
