Month: April 2012

State representatives voted to cut the states tax on food by a quarter of a percentage point, and they agreed to gradually eliminate Tennessees tax on inheritances by 2016, approving both halves of Haslams tax-cut plan. …

Wal-Mart Canada Corp. is pushing aggressively into food as it steals business from grocery rivals, having almost doubled its share of the fresh-food market in the past two years. …

Standard Grill might be too modest of a name for this supermarket restaurant.  It's inside the 5-month-old Standard Market, the first in a planned series of upscale grocers founded by four partners from Bakersfield, Calif., who made it big in the juice and salad dressing business. The store was dreamed up as some speckless utopian ideal of food markets, what'd happen if Fox & Obel hijacked an Apple store.
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Stung by the recession and competition from Big Box stores, Albertsons grocery store chain announced Tuesday it is closing 13 stores in Florida, including its Manatee Avenue location in Bradenton and its Lockwood Ridge Road store. …