Two food service companies agreed this week to pay millions of dollars to settle charges of racial discrimination. ...more

December 18, 2009

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services continues to expand the global market reach of Florida products with a new promotion that will feature Florida strawberries in Ireland during December. The Ireland-based grocery chain SuperQuinn has partnered with the department and will promote Florida's premier winter berry crop to shoppers. ...more

December 13, 2009

The shelves of Nutrition S'Mart, Pasco County's newest grocery store, hold products both familiar and yet slightly strange. ...more

December 5, 2009

The area's first supermarket constructed to environmentally friendly building standards will debut Saturday. ...more

November 14, 2009

Each Thanksgiving season, a few unlucky Americans manage to burn down their houses trying to deep-fry a turkey. ...more

November 7, 2009

Proving there's almost no cooking hassle the convenience food industry can't solve, one major grocery chain in Florida will start selling pre-fried, frozen whole turkeys for this holiday season – Sweetbay. ...more

November 6, 2009

Publix Super Markets posted higher profits on lower revenue in its third quarter. Executives for the grocery chain said they were pleased with recent improvements. "But we understand our net earnings are essentially the same as our results for the third quarters of 2006 and 2007," said Publix CEO Ed Crenshaw. ...more

November 3, 2009

More than 100 farmworkers protested Sunday afternoon outside a Publix demanding the grocer pay higher prices for tomatoes to help increase the wages of pickers. ...more

October 26, 2009

The economy may be hurting some stores. Less so Publix lately. The massive Lakeland-based grocery chain with stores across Florida said sales and profits were up in its most recent quarter, though some established stores saw some slowdown. ...more

August 7, 2009

The Sweetbay Supermarkets, the anchor tenant of the Meres Crossing Town Center, recently moved a step closer to opening its full-service supermarket. ...more

July 18, 2009