Grocery store operators
Point Roberts residents want border restrictions lifted

By Tom Banse Jun. 24, 2021 08:33 AM EDT
POINT ROBERTS, Wash. (AP) — The owner of the only grocery store in the exclave of Point Roberts said she is tapped out and will have to close around July 15...

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2013 file photo, a family leaves a local Walmart in Mexico City. Walmart de Mexico, the country’s biggest retailer, announced the week of June 18, 2021, that its grocery store baggers wouldn’t be allowed back, as the coronavirus pandemic and changing consumer habits threaten to put an end to a decades-old practice of allowing elderly people in Mexico to earn extra income as baggers. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
Mexican elderly lose work as grocery baggers, protest

Jun. 18, 2021 10:54 AM EDT

In this Wednesday, May 19, 2021, photograph, Bill Easton, a checker at a Safeway grocery store, is shown in the shopping center in which the store is located in Aurora, Colo. Easton, like many other workers in retail sales jobs, is fully vaccinated but is concerned about risks posed as retailers change their mask-wearing policies for customers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Nervous workers struggle to adjust to new mask policies

By Alexandra Olson, Joseph Pisani And Anne D'innocenzio May. 20, 2021 10:28 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2020 file photo, Michael Annett (1), Ryan Sieg (39), and Ross Chastain (10) compete in a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race at Dover International Speedway, in Dover, Del. On Friday, May 14, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming gas shortages resulting from the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack have led NASCAR to postpone this weekend’s race in Dover. (AP Photo/Jason Minto, File)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press May. 14, 2021 01:34 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 30, 2021, file photo, a family takes a photo in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. A number of states immediately embraced new guidelines from the CDC that say fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks indoors or out in most situations. But other states - and some businesses _ are taking a wait-and-see attitude. (AP Photo/Jae Hong, File)
States, business sort out what new CDC mask guidance means

By Heather Hollingsworth And Stephen Groves May. 14, 2021 01:12 PM EDT

A banner designed last year for the Kayhi Class of 2020 by Ketchikan artist Matt Hamilton is on display at the intersection of Jefferson Way and Tongass Avenue in Ketchikan, Alaska on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Restaurants, bars and gyms in the Alaska port town of Ketchikan have been asked to close as officials attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19 after the city's pandemic risk level was raised to its highest level. (Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)
The Latest: New Mexico adopts CDC guidance on facemasks

By The Associated Press May. 14, 2021 02:27 AM EDT

Jim Kelly, a truck driver with Shaw's supermarkets, looks at the driver of a truck leaving a Shaw's distribution facility while walking a picket line on strike, Monday, May 3, 2021, in Wells, Maine. Truck drivers for Shaw's supermarkets represented by the Teamsters went on strike Monday, May 3, stopping shipments to Shaw's and Star Market grocery stores in New England. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via AP)
Truckers for Shaw's, Star Market go on strike in New England

May. 03, 2021 09:58 AM EDT

Olympia approves extra ‘hazard pay’ for some grocery workers

Apr. 15, 2021 01:44 PM EDT
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Starting next month, large grocery stores in Olympia will be required to pay workers an additional $4 an hour in pay, the latest city in...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a news conference Sunday, April 4, 2021, at the Manatee County Emergency Management office in Palmetto, Fla. DeSantis declared a state of emergency Saturday after a leak at a large pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted water. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Florida governor rebuts vaccine 'pay-to-play' report on CBS

By Mike Schneider And Terry Spencer Apr. 06, 2021 04:06 PM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, file photo, Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala. Nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer are deciding whether they want to form a union, the biggest labor push in the online shopping giant's history. Mail-in voting started in early February. Ballots must be received by the end of Monday March 29, 2021. The National Labor Relations Board starts counting votes the next day. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
EXPLAINER: What to know about the Amazon union vote

By Joseph Pisani Mar. 29, 2021 10:09 AM EDT

Cars come and go at a Safeway grocery store, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Seattle. A federal judge on Thursday dismissed an industry lawsuit that sought to block a $4-an-hour pay increase for Seattle grocery workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic that was approved by the Seattle City Council in earlier in the year for workers at large grocery companies. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Judge OKs $4-an-hour pay boost for Seattle grocery workers

By Gene Johnson Mar. 18, 2021 03:12 PM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. At bottom center is a model of the COVID-19 virus. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting Biden restored taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Social media users are falsely claiming the Biden administration is bankrolling the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab which has faced unproven allegations that the coronavirus leaked from the facility leading to the global COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By Ali Swenson And Arijeta Lajka Feb. 26, 2021 02:49 PM EST

Carlos Mandez waits in line to fill his propane tanks Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Houston. Customers had to wait over an hour in the freezing rain to fill their tanks. Millions in Texas still had no power after a historic snowfall and single-digit temperatures created a surge of demand for electricity to warm up homes unaccustomed to such extreme lows, buckling the state's power grid and causing widespread blackouts. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Widespread power outages, icy conditions hobble food supply

By Anne D'innocenzio And Mae Anderson Feb. 18, 2021 04:01 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2020 file photo, a Walmart store sign is visible from Route 28 in Derry, N.H. Walmart Inc., reported on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, that it swung to a loss in the fiscal fourth quarter as the sale of its Japan and United Kingdom divisions weighed on results. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Walmart sales still surging, but a chill may be on the way

By Anne D'innocenzio Feb. 18, 2021 07:33 AM EST

In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 photo, Lidl grocery market supervisor Joseph Lupo pauses in an aisle at the store where he works in Lake Grove, N.Y., after getting the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine earlier in the day. Nearly two months after the U.S. began its COVID-19 vaccination drive, many grocery workers are still waiting their turn. At least 11 states are not prioritizing grocery workers at all, while many others have bumped them down in favor of people 65 and older, an effort to speed up the vaccination drive. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Vaccine delays leave grocery workers feeling expendable

By Alexandra Olson, Dee-Ann Durbin And Anne D'innocenzio Feb. 16, 2021 12:44 AM EST

Igee Cummings walks through the snow Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Houston. A winter storm dropping snow and ice sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Officials: 2 dead in Texas as subfreezing cold sweeps US

By Paul J. Weber And Jake Bleiberg Feb. 15, 2021 01:39 PM EST

Arizona restaurants look to make cocktails-to-go permanent

By Jonathan J. Cooper Feb. 09, 2021 07:48 PM EST
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona restaurants are trying to convince state lawmakers to let them sell cocktails to-go, looking to make permanent a temporary right they...

Online grocery shopping drives up sales at Ocado

Feb. 09, 2021 07:50 AM EST
LONDON (AP) — Ocado, one of the biggest internet-only grocery retailers, said Tuesday that sales rose 35% during the last fiscal year as the COVID-19 pandemic...

FILE - In this April 9, 2020, file photo, employees observe social distancing due to coronavirus, at the entrance of Amazon, in Douai, northern France. Amazon announced Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, that Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO later in the year, leaving a role he’s had since founding the company nearly 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)
5 challenges awaiting Amazon's new CEO

By Joseph Pisani And Anne D'innocenzio Feb. 03, 2021 06:29 PM EST

FILE- In this June 15, 2017, file photo, bagged purchases from a Kroger grocery store sit in a shopping cart in Flowood, Miss. Kroger Co. will close two supermarkets in Southern California in response to a local ordinance requiring extra pay for certain grocery employees working during the coronavirus pandemic. The decision announced by the company Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, follows a unanimous vote last month by the Long Beach City Council mandating a 120-day increase of $4 an hour for employees of supermarkets with at least 300 employees nationwide and more than 15 in Long Beach. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
2 California supermarkets closing after city orders pay hike

Feb. 02, 2021 11:45 AM EST