Food shopping
Editorial Roundup: Tennessee

By The Associated Press Jun. 16, 2021 01:30 PM EDT
Kingsport Times News. June 11, 2021. Editorial: Independence Day signals a return to normal To date, it appears...

Editorial Roundup: Kentucky

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 03:31 PM EDT
Somerset Commonwealth Journal. May 19, 2021. Editorial: It’s time to go back to work The 1971 hit song “Signs” by the...

Cars with people waiting for AstraZeneca vaccination queue in front of a tent on the parking lot of a supermarket in Pforzheim, southern Germany, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. A doctor who could not get rid of her AstraZeneca vaccine in her doctor's office decided to offer some 250 doses in drive-in location at the supermarket. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
German doctor sets up vaccine center in supermarket lot

By Christoph Noelting May. 05, 2021 12:08 PM 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

People shop at the local market in Istanbul, Thursday, April 29, 2021, a few hours before the start of the latest lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus. People stocked up on groceries, shoppers filled markets and many left cities for their hometowns or the southern coast as Turkey's strictest COVID-19 lockdown yet came into effect late Thursday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposed a "full lockdown" until May 17 amid soaring COVID-19 infections and deaths. Turkey now ranks among the world's worst-hit countries and it's the first time that it is imposing a nearly three-week lockdown for the whole of the country. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Full lockdown takes effect in Turkey, people leave cities

By Suzan Fraser Apr. 29, 2021 07:12 AM EDT

Iowa may take vaccination effort to ballpark, farmers market

By David Pitt Apr. 28, 2021 02:08 PM EDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With interest in coronavirus vaccines lagging in much of Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday that public health officials planned to...

People visit the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, April 15, 2021. The Middle East's largest operator of malls, Majid Al Futtaim, expects revenue and earnings to climb back to pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year and is moving full steam ahead with plans to develop its biggest mall ever. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Mideast's largest mall operator to expand amid vaccine hopes

By Aya Batrawy Apr. 15, 2021 10:41 AM EDT

Ontario imposes provincewide restrictions amid third wave

By Rob Gillies Apr. 01, 2021 02:52 PM EDT
TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s most populous province announced Thursday what he calls a province wide shutdown for four weeks because of a third surge...

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

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

This Oct. 27, 2020 image shows a sign in front of the Ajo Farmers Market & Cafe advertising the Ajo Food Pantry in Ajo, Arizona. The pantry was overwhelmed with demand early in the pandemic. On designated afternoons, people can come by and pick up bags of food for themselves and their family and neighbors. (Katherine Sypher/Cronkite News via AP)
Arizona town teams up to fight COVID-19 food insecurity

By Katherine Sypher Jan. 04, 2021 10:00 AM EST

Italian Carabinieri officers check vehicles near the Colosseum in Rome, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Italians are easing into a holiday season full of restrictions, and already are barred from traveling to other regions except for valid reasons like work or health. Starting Christmas eve, travel beyond city or town borders also will be blocked, with some allowance for very limited personal visits in the same region. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Italy enters Christmas lockdown amid signs of resurgence

By Nicole Winfield Dec. 24, 2020 09:34 AM EST

Spaces of Opportunity garden manager and farmer Bruce Babcock collects watermelons Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2020, from one of a handful of family farms to be sold at the weekly farmers market. Babcock spends most of his time managing and assisting other farmers at the 10-acre community farm. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey)
Fresh food initiatives feed, teach communities of color

By Cheyanne Mumphrey And Anita Snow Dec. 13, 2020 11:19 AM EST

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, passenger planes of the Finnish national airline company Finnair stand on the tarmac at Helsinki international airport, Helsinki. Finnish carrier Finnair will start selling business class airplane food in supermarkets in a move to keep its catering staff employed and to offer a taste of the airline experience to those missing flying in the COVID-19 times. The state-controlled airline said that in a pilot scheme the handmade meals, called “Taste of Finnair", would initially be offered at one store as of Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. (Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva via AP, file)
A taste for travel? Finnair to sell plane food in shops

Jari Tanner Oct. 14, 2020 09:43 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 20, 2020 file photo, an order pickup station is seen at New Pioneer Co-Op in Coralville, Iowa. For many Americans, shopping for groceries online instead of at the store is becoming the new normal in the pandemic. But this method of stocking up could have an impact on your budget. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette via AP, File)
Millennial Money: For grocery delivery, add fees to the list

By Lauren Schwahn Of Nerdwallet Aug. 18, 2020 07:57 AM EDT

New Hampshire putting farmers markets in spotlight

Aug. 01, 2020 11:15 AM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The governor of New Hampshire wants residents to eat locally. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu plans to kick off a...

Danssanin Lanizou, 30, right, sits with her husband, Yakouaran Boue, as their one-month old daughter, Haboue Solange Boue, receives medical treatment for severe malnutrition at the feeding center of the main hospital in the town of Hounde, Tuy Province, in southwestern Burkina Faso on Thursday, June 11, 2020. Boue used to sell onions to buy seeds and fertilizer, but then the markets closed. “I’m worried that this year we won’t have enough food to feed her,” he said. “I’m afraid she’s going to die.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month

By Lori Hinnant And Sam Mednick Jul. 27, 2020 06:55 PM EDT

Hardik Kalra stocks meat in a cooler at a local super market, Friday, May 29, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. As if trips to the grocery store weren't nerve-racking enough, shoppers lately have seen the costs of meat, eggs and even potatoes soar as the coronavirus has disrupted processing plants and distribution networks. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
US food prices see historic jump and are likely to stay high

By David Pitt May. 30, 2020 10:47 AM EDT

Maine's farmers market season starts under new conditions

May. 21, 2020 02:10 AM EDT
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's spring farmers market season is getting started all over the state with new rules and sanitation measures to cope with the...

Delaware to reopen farmers markets with new safety measures

May. 12, 2020 09:05 AM EDT
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Farmers markets in Delaware are set to reopen Friday after being closed for nearly two months amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials have...