When layoffs are coming within 60 days, federal law requires employers to notify employees and their state labor department. An industry publication reports that yesterday, the venerable and bankrupt grocery chain A&P issued these layoff notifications, called Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices, to employees at all of their stores. However, most of the stores remain on the market, and A&P hopes to sell them to competitors soon. [More]
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Walmart, Pathmark, A&P, Waldbaum’s Bring Up Rear In Latest Supermarket Survey
By 4.2.15
Walmart may still be the nation’s most shopped-at supermarket chain, but it’s far from the most beloved. In fact, in the latest ratings of 68 supermarket chains published by our colleagues at Consumer Reports, Walmart had the worst satisfaction score from readers. [More]
Grocery Shoppers Ignore Stabbing Victim’s Blood, Just Want Their Milk
By 10.8.14
The grocery shoppers of Philadelphia are a determined bunch. Well, that, or they really want some cereal. Police say that after a stabbing at a Pathmark supermarket yesterday evening, customers weren’t really fazed. Mostly, they were annoyed that they couldn’t get to the dairy case. Unobservant shoppers walked and pushed their carts through the puddle of blood. [More]
Employee Kills Coworkers At New Jersey Pathmark
By 8.31.12
The Newark Star-Ledger is reporting that two workers are dead after an employee of the Old Bridge Pathmark supermarket in New Jersey entered the store with two guns and began shooting. The worker then took his own life. [More]
Grocery Stores Can Have Terrible Liquidation Sales, Too
By 3.16.11
It’s not just big-box retail stores like Circuit City and Borders that have liquidation sales offering terrible deals for consumers. The hideous black, red, and yellow signs have gone up at a Pathmark grocery store in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Like other liquidation sales, though, all prices go back up to retail and are marked down from there. The problem with this is that customers miss out on the weekly specials going on at every Pathmark except the one shutting down. [More]
A&P Mails You Back Keys You Drunkenly Left In Cab A Month Ago
By 9.30.10
Shopper club cards might be part of an Orwellian masterplan to scrutinize your purchasing habits, but they also have another, less well-known use. Zach says that after an evening of drunken frolicking around New York, he lost his keys. A month later, this showed up in his mailbox. [More]
Snakehead Found In Can Of Green Beans
By 6.15.07
It is a symptom of our curious existence that while processed vegetables and fruits give us the constant convenience of food that has been cleaned and prepared, the truth remains that mechanization and automation of the processing is imperfect, and the price we pay for never having to pull a bean from a garden is that, occasionally, there will be a decapitated snakehead on our dinnerplate.
