Grocery articles
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Amazon’s updated grocery delivery program has some strings attached
After asserting itself as an overshadowing presence in retail, Amazon is still experimenting with ways to leave a similar mark in groceries. The company’s latest tweak to its service lowers the minimum price for free grocery deliveries to $35. However, most customers using the service will also need to pay a $10 monthly subscription in addition to having a Prime membership ($15 monthly or $139 annually). To participate, you must live in one of the 3,500 supported cities and towns in the US....
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Amazon Is Offering a New Grocery Delivery Subscription Service — Here's How It Works
Groceries from Whole Foods and local shops will arrive in an hour, and the new delivery subscription is discounted for customers with EBT cards.
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How one grocery shopper takes steps to avoid ‘pointless plastic’
Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern supermarkets, they’re bagged or wrapped in plastic too. For Judith Enck, that’s the epitome of pointless plastic. The global theme for Earth Day on Monday is planet vs. plastic. The environmental movement is calling for “the end of plastics for the sake of human and planetary health.” People are increasingly breathing, eating and drinking tiny particles of plastic, and millions of tons of plastic wind up in the ocean each year. And...