One example: “Funky Fries | Introduced in 2002, Ore-Ida’s frozen french fries were offered in new forms: chocolate-flavored, cinnamon-flavored, ring-shaped and colored blue. Promoted as… Read More »List of grocery products that were commercial failures
James Jacob Ritty, inventor of the first working version of a mechanical cash register, was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1837. Ritty was a barkeeper… Read More »Inventor of the Week: James Jacob Ritty
Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? Check out Cooking For Engineers… “Everyone’s got a favorite way of cooking bacon, but what’s the difference if… Read More »Cooking For Engineers: Cooking Tests: Bacon (Part I)
“When Ralphs employee Shantie Muraj prepared to raise the flag outside her store early Saturday she was hit on the head by a grocery cart… Read More »Woman injured by falling grocery cart
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The Onion: “Ancient Shopping List Shows Early Man Really Loved Meat” (links to audio)
“The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and… Read More »Just two items on this list: Diet Coke and Mentos
“The three shopping lists below are scrawled on the back of business cards I find after we have a certain customer visit the store. Since… Read More »Of shopping lists and shoplifters
“Wal-Mart isn’t just the number-one retailer in the universe. It also leads the way in calls for help to local police. No west-county property generates… Read More »Wal-Mart tops local police calls, sheriff’s office finds
“Tesco and Wal-Mart are the undisputed champions of the international grocery market, but little-known fringe grocers may rise to eat into their margins over the… Read More »Newcomers take to global grocery stage
“This week, Hell’s food editor brings you an informative primer for properly stocking your pantry shelves in case a horde of hungry rednecks descends on… Read More »Food from Hell
“It’s another enemy in the battle against urban ugliness: stolen shopping carts. The carts are strewn along roadsides, under bridges and in neighborhoods. Takers range… Read More »Crackdown on wayward carts
“A woman shopping at a Target store paid for her items and left. But she forgot her wallet at the checkout stand. Police say the… Read More »Thief Rings Up $$ After Woman Leaves Wallet At Counter
“When Newsline reporters went shopping, here are some of the stuff they bought off-the-shelf. These items, common in any household grocery list, had either expired,… Read More »A bad shopping day
“…regulations will ban from school campuses foods made with poultry, meat, fish, rice, eggs, seafood, mayonnaise and dairy products if they’re prepared in unlicensed facilities,… Read More »Nutrition policy would ban some school foods
“A cashier at the Gallery Gourmet Market in the basement of Ivory Tower was detained Sunday night after University Police was called due to inappropriate… Read More »Gallery clerk hurls obscenities at students
“Here is a story: One day I got it in my head to make me some guacamole. Simple enough I thought, I’ll just head over… Read More »How the produce manager at my grocery store broke his arm
What happens when your cereal looks like or Munch painting, or your funnel cake looks like a seahorse? It ends up here: “Welcome to the… Read More »The Museum of Food Anomalies
“Here’s where you will find some of the world’s most bizarre, beautiful and sexy milk bottles. What’s more they’re delivered fresh to your desktop every… Read More »Milk Bottle Of The Week
“I was about to stroll through the door of my local Schnucks on Saturday afternoon to pick up a few groceries, when all of a… Read More »Nudity at the Grocery Store
