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scary

Warning: There Are Scorpions In The Walmart Produce Department

12-year-old Megan Templeton was shopping with her father for some watermelons and hamburgers for their Memorial Day cook-out when she was stung by a stowaway scorpion that had made a home in the produce section of her local Walmart. More »

10:54 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Meg Marco
9,424 views, 101 comments

living wages

Burger King Investigating Email Shenanigans In Tomato Price War

Last week a Florida journalist busted Burger King VP Stephen Grover for using his tween-aged daughter's email account to slam a farm workers group—but that wasn't the only weird email event related to this story. Now Burger King is taking steps to officially distance itself from Grover's actions and the other internal emails by announcing it's launched an "internal investigation" into all three. More »

9:16 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Chris Walters
3,176 views, 5 comments

living wages

Burger King Exec Hides Behind Daughter's Email Account To Trash Talk Opponents

The next time Burger King VP Stephen Grover goes online to spread FUD about labor advocates, he should probably leave his daughter out of it. For one thing, she's a horrible accomplice and will spill her guts to the first reporter who calls. For another thing, this forthrightness clearly makes her too ethical to smear a group that's trying to bring pay for tomato pickers up to living wage levels. More »

2:14 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Chris Walters
10,499 views, 73 comments

Latest by n/a: If they don't like the pay they need to find another job. At least that's something I would do. I am not familiar with living conditions etc so I can't comment on that. I used to eat at BK at more »

wildlife

Birds Live In Virginia Safeway Store

Jose writes,
I thought that the long lines and the produce always being out of stock was bad enough, but then I noticed the small family of birds living at my local Safeway (Nutley St, Fairfax, VA). I wrote a letter to Safeway's corporate offices about a week ago to complain about the poor state of the store, but I guess that management really doesn't care enough to act quickly. My question is, if there's no birdbath inside Safeway, then where do the birds bathe?

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3:55 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Chris Walters
7,671 views, 94 comments

Latest by n/a: I think there is a possibility of worse things than bird poop on the veggies..@B: more »

disputes

Burger King Will Not Pay Extra For Tomatoes, May Buy Them Elsewhere

Burger King has been fighting with tomato pickers in southern Florida for two years, refusing to pay a penny more per pound. Now the burger chain has announced that they may simply buy their tomatoes somewhere else. More »

2:55 PM on Thu Jan 17 2008
By Meg Marco
7,117 views, 88 comments

clips

VIDEO: Tie This Easy Knot On Produce Bags For Drawstring Access

Recently we discovered how we could open our produce bags much easier by tying on this simple knot (especially considering our grocery store doesn't provide twist ties). More »

5:42 PM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By Ben Popken
6,399 views, 41 comments