InstaCart Employees get Unexpected Haircut
News outlets are reporting that InstaCart employee pay has been slashed recently by as much as 60%. What started as a rosy picture of the new app economy, supported by [...]
Consumers Pay Up for InstaCart’s Expensive Business Model
With all the buzz about the latest InstaCart's $220 million round of financing, I finally decided to pull the trigger. But not to grace them with my first order, not [...]
Open Grocery Database Project
Since there are plenty of online retailers selling hundreds of thousands of grocery and drugstore products, one hopes that the brands and manufacturers would come together to make the information [...]
List of Major US Manufacturers
Manufacturers of grocery and other products you might find in your local supermarket are listed alphabetically. The list is long and but by no mean it is exhaustive. We strive to give our readers basic [...]
Walgreens, Trader Joe’s in Chicken Salad Recall
Trader Joe's, Walgreen's, A&P's Fresh Foods and Whole Foods Market are part of a recent recall of E. Coli contaminated chicken products made by a California Glass Onion Catering company bearing [...]
Local Shopping (now in NYC)
What do local grocers, growers, butchers, bakers, makers, fish mongers & wine sellers have for you to savor and save on? Get what's good, and do good, in your neighborhood. [...]
Brands & Makers
What inspired someone to produce a peachy habañero sauce, or a sassy, ashy chevre, or a pine-laced white Bordeaux may be simple or mysterious. It could be Mom or Montezuma, [...]
The Marketplace
We explore what’s new to offer you original, innovative products that are not widely known so that you can discover something different for yourself. Did you know that 10-15,000 new [...]