...is chewing on the so-called "Cheeseburger Bill," a piece of legislation that would prohibit people from suing food retailers for making them fat. Rep. Dean Urdall, R-Grove City, has once again sponsored the bill, claiming it is necessary...

...arguments supporting a superstore for this area. Supervalu is a corporation, a food wholesaler and in some cases a food retailer. Super One and Cub, both buy some of their groceries from Supervalu, the wholesaler, which also serves other independent...

...grocery stores should be able to use the Internet to bid for their groceries. Nash Finch Co., a Minneapolis-based food retailer, announced it has signed a deal to allow shoppers to try to name their own price for their groceries on the Internet...

...entirely convinced of the technology; otherwise, we would have rolled it out further," he said. Giant, the dominant food retailer in the Washington area, has no such hesitation. "Everybody else was getting into it, so we wanted to try it ourselves...

...how ripe they want their fruits and vegetables. A comparison of Freshdirect's prices and those of some Manhattan food retailers found the online service is outpricing the competition on a sampling of products. At Gristede's, a grocery store...