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Eat This, Not That: An Energy Star Label For Food

Nutrition labels have a lot of information--too much perhaps. What if the fronts of food packages had a simple, easy-to-understand system that let you know if they were healthy or not?READ»

A Vision Of Our Shopping Future

A pair of apps try to remake the experience of shopping. Are they the game-changers they think they are?READ»

Sainsbury's Tests On-the-Fly Supply Chain Tweaking

Think about how much food is wasted in a grocery store every time a thunderstorm interrupts a spring or summer holiday. All that extra meat and salad prepped in store freezers is left to go bad as people ditch their barbecue plans ...READ»

Questionable Trend of the Week: Expired Grocery Food Trading

Fresh grocery food: it's just so...expensive. Perhaps that's why sites shilling out-of-date items have become so popular, with one U.K. site reporting a whopping 500% increase in sales from December 2008 to the same time in 2009. ...READ»

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"Far Foods" Guilts Grocery Shoppers Into Buying Local

It's easy to buy strawberries and plums in February if you don't think about the thousands of miles they traveled to land on grocery store shelves. James Reynold's "Far Foods" concept makes it more difficult to ignore by placing ...READ»