GroceryStores

As part of a plan to increase access to high-quality nutritious foods, First Lady Michelle Obama announced on Wednesday that she is teaming up with several of the country's largest food retailers. From healthier foods to new jobs, see what's in store for big chains like Walmart.

The grocery market has been rough in the last decade as big-box stores have emerged as new competitors. But before you dismiss an opportunity in the traditional grocery space, here's why bargain-shopping investors should take a stroll down the aisles of Supervalu.

As someone who goes through nine gallons of milk in an average week, buying two at a time to cut down on trips to the store, getting the best deal in high on my weekly shopping list. That's why we scoured dairy departments to find the best price for a gallon of milk. Here's what you need to keep in mind the next time you're shopping.

In the razor-thin profit area of groceries, Amazon.com is slowly expanding its fresh-grocery business to the entire Seattle metropolitan area in the next three months, according to a Bloomberg.com story. Why Amazon, the biggest online retailer on the planet, would want to become the next Webvan is...

Call it a sign of the times: A handful of grocery stores have changed their policies and no longer let customers pay with paper checks. Check cards, credit cards and plain old cash are still fine, but paper checks have gone the way of the Dodo at several West Coast supermarkets. As this article in...

The call, "cleanup needed in aisle three," will likely never sound the same to a Long Island woman who claims she was injured after a display of spaghetti sauce toppled onto to her at a Queens supermarket. Patricia Samaroo, 55, was reaching for a jar of the sauce when the display toppled, dowsing...

Sociologists call the scarcity of urban grocery stores vs. the abundance in suburbia "the grocery store gap." It's particularly wide in Detroit, the nation's beleaguered 11th largest city, where there are no chain grocery store outlets within the city limits.The Wall Street Journal (subscription...

As someone who goes to the grocery store about three times a week, I can see the advantage of going to a Web site and seeing what deals are available before going to the store. I'm less likely to spend money on impulse purchases if I have a shopping list and know before I walk in what's on sale and...

When I used to work at the campus bookstore back in college, I always wondered why the little blue books that every student had to buy for finals were at the back of the store. Since everyone needed at least a few, why not put them up near the front of the store so they could quickly grab them and...

If you're looking for a way to save money at the grocery store, shopping for a Thanksgiving meal is a good way to find deals that you normally won't find the rest of the year. Turkeys are historically less expensive in November and December than in other months, so now is the time to clean out your...