Trader Joe's is a grocery store chain with 450 locations in the United States. The chain has thrived by offering a wider variety of food than their competitors at reasonable prices. But there are lots of procedure that g...

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via imgur This is why supermarkets should always hire people with OCD to stock their...

[http://youtu.be/PN21bcMEHAY] (YouTube link)Norweg...  ...ch he flirts with female strangers in an American supermarket by sharing wine off the shelf with them. Cute, bu...  ...t it didn’t strike me as hilarious, until a supermarket employee confronted him with the vast cultural di...

Like a battered wife, I glance at the supermarket

Men, do you hate grocery shopping? The Westside Market in New York City feels your pain, so it created something just for you: a "man aisle" where you can find all dude-related ite...

Foodies may argue that the stuff you get from McDo...  ...that the fast food chain should be classified as supermarkets rather than restaurants to avoid a huge tax bill:...  ...-packaged and sold to customers in the style of a supermarket rather than a restaurant. It is a decision that w...

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The following is an article from Uncle John’s Al...  ...r granted today, but less than 100 years ago, the supermarket seemed like some sort of bizarre fantasy. Wait a...  ..., one of the biggest factors in the growth of the supermarket was the invention of the automobile ignition swit...  .... A few years late...