Month: August 2015

Third-party delivery service Shipt will start bringing groceries from Publix Super Markets to customers' doorsteps. …

The idea of buying fresh produce from a company called “Overstock” seems a bit strange, but it may be best to think of Overstock.com as a holding company for two very different businesses. …

A jury awarded retired basketball player Michael Jordan $8.9 million in his lawsuit against a grocery store chain that used his name in a one-page magazine advertisement without his permission. Attorneys for the defendants, now-defunct Dominick's Finer Foods, a division of Safeway, had claimed the advertisement was worth far less, around $127,000. …

In January, Crain's published an article about Fairway Market's financial problems and observed that a share of the company's beaten-up stock cost less than a half-gallon of Fairway-brand organic milk. Eight months later, the share price has fallen further, to $2.16, so now you'd have to sell about two shares to pay for the milk. …

Nearly 90 acres of Alamance County land where construction is underway to build Lidl's distribution center has been purchased by an affiliate of the discount German grocer as it works toward U.S. expansion. …