If you are hosting Thanksgiving this year, you can expect to pay much more for your feast. Nearly all your favorite ingredients will have increased in price since last year. …
The Renaissance Community Cooperative—which received generous help from local government and nonprofit groups to help to alleviate the ‘food desert’ that is supposedly northeast Greensboro—announced it will close on January…
Yesterday I discussed a local protest with the self-defeating goal of “helping the poor” by jacking up the minimum wage all the way to $15 per hour. I pointed out…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon details an unusual taxpayer-funded anti-obesity measure. The National Institutes of Health is spending over $400,000 on a study tracking the eye movements of…
Meanwhile, in tony Fisher Park, Deep Roots Market—beneficiary of a $100,000 loan from the City of Greensboro—is in financial trouble. A message from the board of directors doesn’t sugar coat…
N&R reports Greensboro’s Renaissance Community Co-Op grocery store is shooting for 2105 opening, with a little help from both the city and Guilford County: John Jones, the president of the…
Vicki Alger, writing for the Independent Women’s Forum, has the latest idea from the nanny-staters: $30,000 talking shopping carts. The USDA “MyCarts” would be divided into sections separating a variety…
This would seem obvious unless your name is P.J. Hairston.
The Triangle Business Journal reports we are in the midst of a grocery store war in the Triangle. And competition means more choices for consumers. Wal-Mart, Harris Teeter, Kroger, Food…
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey caught some flak in January when he called the Affordable Care Act “fascism” (and soon backed down). Mackey, however, continues to point out that, under…
Don Boudreaux’s opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal is excellent and thought provoking. It is especially powerful in that any consumer can easily visualize the condition into which we…
One symptom of a growing number of people dependent on food stamps is that grocery stores have sustained shortages of stocked goods on payday. As a result, the federal program…