“Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 7, the average American had earned enough income to pay for his or her family’s entire 2005 food supply. According… Read More »Americans spend 10.7% of disposable income on food
“Kristi Speheger was taken aback the first time she walked into the new Marsh supermarket in the Traders Point Retail Center on West 86th Street.… Read More »New ‘Lifestyle’ Marsh offers a different look
“You’re shopping for groceries, making your way down the candy aisle, when suddenly one of the products tries to get your attention.”
“For the monthly subscription price of $4.95, you will receive a weekly e-mail newsletter with five tried-and-true recipes each week (one for each week-night dinner).… Read More »The Six O’Clock Scramble
“When I travel, I usually write everything that’s super important to me down on a 8.5×11 piece of paper, fold it twice, and stick it… Read More »My analog Palm Pilot
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Thanks to everyone who has been sending in lists. I know I owe some of you that B&W photo as offered via Nervousness. I haven’t… Read More »Reciprocality update
Jane Sforza, assistant treasurer for the town of Rockland, [Massachusetts,] believes one should always have a pen close at hand. At last count she had… Read More »Write on: Rockland assistant treasurer’s unusual pen passion
“Sometimes a discarded box would be a handy reminder of what my son liked to eat. I once found him assiduously writing, in pencil, an… Read More »Reduce, reuse, recycle, reconsider
“…but it’s the U.S. bread industry that’s been mired in a nightmare, watching industry-wide sales of white bread products dip 7 percent to 10 percent… Read More »Low-carb diets slice into baking business
“I was flicking through a magazine the other day and read an article about shopping lists (the article was about de-cluttering) and I wondered how… Read More »What sort of shopping/grocery lists do you use?
After you look at all 700 of our lists, head over to Flickr and look at all 250+ photos tagged “grocery.”
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“The Kroger Co. (Cincinnati), the country’s largest supermarket retailer, has opened a 105,000-square-foot store in the Cincinnati metropolitan area, its largest supermarket to date. Taking… Read More »Where’s the Beef? And Eggs? And Cereal?