grocery stores

Kroger, the grocery giant that owns QFC, Fred Meyer and other grocery stores around the country, is planning to close another Fred Meyer in Tacoma. The store sits in the James Center shopping area right across from Tacoma Community College off a busy thoroughfare with a well-used bus line.

A new proposal filed with the city council would restrict large chains from altering prices based on shoppers’ data.

A lawyer for supermarket chain Albertsons has told a federal judge that the company might have to lay off workers and close stores if its planned merger with Kroger isn’t allowed to proceed.

The Washington state Supreme Court has brushed aside the final remaining legal hurdle in the way of a $4 billion dividend by Albertsons to its shareholders ahead of a proposed merger with grocery rival Kroger.

The beloved Asian grocer Viet-Wah closed its Seattle location on Friday, September 30. The store was opened by Duc Tran who came to Seattle as a refugee from Vietnam. His shop provided the local Asian community with a place where they could get ingredients hard to find anywhere else.

Seattle has joined other cities in approving extra pay for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.The City Council on Monday approved…

All Safeway, Albertsons and Haggen grocery stores in the state are setting aside special shopping hours for elderly customers and others who are more…

Grocery store workers in the Puget Sound region came very close to going on strike in late 2013, but recent contract negotiations have gone more smoothly…

About 30,000 grocery store workers in the Puget Sound region will be voting next week on whether to authorize a strike. That’s after the bargaining team…

Grocery store workers in the Puget Sound region are stepping up pressure on their employers as they try to reach a contract deal. They’re staging…