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Grocery store owner Gilles Robin works on his fruits vegetable display in Levis Que, Canada

Apps help cut food waste and costs in Canada as prices rise

Food

Food nearing their expiration dates can sell at stores for around a third of the price, something that’s helped Canadians make the most of their money as they see the prices for essentials go up.

Man shopping in the produce section of an American grocery store

The behind-the-shelves story of American supermarkets

Food
Trash bins full of food

Food waste increases during the pandemic — compounding an existing problem

Food
A man packs groceries separated from the cashier by a plastic sheet

How people around the world are filling their pantries

COVID-19
A hand holds two food products in plastic boxes at a market

Finland’s answer to food waste: ‘Best-before’ is actually good later — with a discount

Food
A green cardboard box sits on a door stoop.

Want to help the planet? Ditch your grocery cart for a meal kit.

Environment

Home-delivered meal kits are booming across the globe. They send us the raw ingredients and a recipe; we cook it up. But is our lust for convenience hurting or helping the planet?

Olympia Auset looks up at the sky and smiles.

Olympia Auset is tackling systemic racism, one vegetable at a time

Food

“Food is a tool that can be used either for oppression or liberation,” says Auset. SÜPRMARKT, a pop-up grocery store, offers low-cost organic foods in South Los Angeles, an underserved community where food access is deeply tied to structural racism.

A customer shops for Thanksgiving ham at a grocery store in Los Angeles, California, Nov. 21, 2017.

How leaving stores closed for years helps grocery chains and hurts communities

Economics

Some supermarkets are using an arcane legal clause to prevent new stores from opening, creating a long-term lack of food access.

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Immigrants in New Hampshire are creating an unlikely ethnic food hub

Food

In New Hampshire, it wasn’t always this easy to get mangosteens and other produce from Asia and Africa. But with immigrant communities growing in the area, some locals are finding ways to get familiar foods from back home onto the plates of Nepalese, Bhutanese and other immigrants here in the US..

Michael Dunleavy walks down an empty aisle of the Market Basket grocery store he manages in Somerville, Mass.

A beloved grocery chain where immigrants shop and work is now in jeopardy

Culture

Market Basket, the New England grocery chain, is a staple in immigrant communities. Not only do they shop there, they work there, too. But after a power struggle at the top of the company, customers and employees worry this could be the end.Market Basket, the New England grocery chain, is a staple in immigrant communities. Not only do they shop there, they work there, too. But after a power struggle at the top of the company, customers and employees worry this could be the end.