grocery stores
British Supermarkets Are Duping Customers with Misleading Special Offers
The results of a three month-long investigation by the UK Competition and Market Authority has criticised certain supermarkets for confusing customers with promotional deals and unclear unit-pricing.
Shoppers at a British Supermarket Started a Fight Over Cheap Meat
The dark side of the reduced aisle was revealed yesterday when a video emerged showing Tesco customers fighting on the floor over cut price meat.
I Went to an Awkward Singles Night at a Toronto Grocery Store
What happens when you throw a bunch of singles in a grocery store and encourage them to connect without booze or Tinder?
Here's Why UK Supermarket Sales Are Falling
Food sales are falling at all the major supermarket chains—so what are Britons eating?
Find Jesus in the Biscuit Aisle of Melbourne’s Italian Supermarkets
Melbourne’s Mediterranean Wholesalers—a marble-topped cathedral to home cooking—is an Italian Australian institution. Nothing cures homesickness like arancini balls and shrines to Catholic saints.
Brighton Beach Is a Paradise of Pickles and Cow Feet
To learn more about the salty fish and cabbage that I'd briefly flirted with in my youth, I headed to Brighton Beach—a middle-class, heavily Jewish, and Russian-speaking neighborhood deep in the southern part of Brooklyn—for a bit of former Soviet...
Venezuela Wants to Put Fingerprint Scanners in Grocery Stores
Due to a massive food shortage in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro has come up with a level-headed solution to ensure that everyone has access to basic goods: electronically fingerprint every shopper in the country.
Want Milk or Toilet Paper? The Venezuelan Government Wants Your Fingerprints
President Nicolas Maduro announced this week that Venezuelan grocery stores will soon begin the mandatory fingerprinting of customers to combat shortages.
Iceland, I Love You—But Your Grocery Stores Are Weird
I came to Iceland expecting animals heads, and I found animals heads. But is that prune-flavored milk I see sitting on the shelf? And why is all of the candy overwhelmingly infused with licorice? Well, at least your skyr is delicious.
I Ate Out of Dumpsters in Denmark for Two Weeks
Unless you're some kind of king who can afford to purchase food, eating "trash" out of dumpsters isn't so bad. I did it for two weeks and saved enough to pay for a month's rent.
We Interviewed the Revolutionaries Pouring Concrete on London's 'Anti-Homeless' Spikes
LBR—the group the activists belong to—stands for “London Black Revolutionaries," or the Black Revs for short. LBR's direct action approach seems to have worked—Tesco has announced that they'll remove the spikes, claiming they were never meant to deter...
Activists Poured Concrete on 'Anti-Homeless' Spikes in London This Morning
The war against London's "anti-homeless" spikes escalated today from sign-waving to radical criminal action. In the small hours of the morning, some activists dressed as construction workers, poured concrete over the metal spikes outside a Tesco Metro...