Quarantining at home has pushed people to stock up on supplies and buy pantry essentials in bulk. While there are foods you'll wish you had when you're self-isolating at home, there are also foods you should avoid buying during your next trip to the store.
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Sanitize your hands, sanitize your kids, sanitize... your groceries? At no other time in recent history have groceries dominated so many headlines. Major media outlets are talking about everything from grocery shortages, to grocery delivery to grocery workers and how to grocery shop safely.
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Due to the spread of coronavirus, single-use plastic bags seem to have been granted a lifeline. Given the obsession to keep every surface in public places as clean as possible in an attempt to thwart the spread of the virus, it's now reusable shopping bags that are being banned by retailers.
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In case there were not enough products you might have anxiety over running out of, you can add carbonated drinks to that list, too.
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There's a three-ingredient Aldi dinner hack that's going viral, and it uses none other than Aldi's Season's Choice Broccoli Bake, a dish consisting of the named veggie swimming in a creamy cheese sauce. Toss it with a couple other kitchen staples and you've got a delicious dinner in minutes.
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Chick-fil-A is coming up with some inventive new ways to make dinner fun and exciting with their social media campaign 'Nightly Nuggets.' For the 10th episode, they released a recipe for bang bang chicken that sounds delicious and calls for a few extra ingredients beyond Chick-fil-A menu items.
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Throughout the unfolding crisis, Aldi has been leading the charge in making sure that their own employees stay safe from infection as they man the front lines in our war against COVID-19. Now once more Aldi is taking the lead in implementing new policies for shoppers.
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If any company has been able to make lemonade out of the lemons that is the coronavirus pandemic, it's Costco. The warehouse store saw a surge in customers last month, however, as of April 9, the warehouse store's shares were down almost 2 percent.
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While Amazon has been taking numerous measures to keep up with demand for grocery delivery services over the past month, they are still struggling to keep up with the sheer volume of orders — The New York Times reports these have increased about 5,000 percent due to self-quarantining.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out in the middle of March, one worker at Trader Joe's in New York took to Business Insider to talk about what it was like being on the front lines of a global public health crisis. Now it seems that things have only gotten worse as workers look to unionize.
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Due to the COVID-19 crisis, ordering groceries online has become more popular than ever, and some retailers are reaping the benefits. One app, in particular, has seen a lot of growth as of late.
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As the coronavirus pandemic has spread and big box stores have had to make big changes to accommodate the influx of customers, Sam's Club is making another adjustment designed to assist front-line workers fighting the novel coronavirus.
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Dark grocery stores are not exactly a new thing, but because of the novel coronavirus, more regular grocery stores are turning into 'dark' grocery stores. If you're not familiar with the term, a 'dark' grocery store is one that does not allow normal customers inside its doors to shop the aisles.
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As COVID-19 has swept across the United States, grocery store workers have found themselves on the frontline of the pandemic as shoppers have flooded into stores to buy up supplies. Understandably, this makes working at a megastore like Costco pretty stressful for its employees.
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Because they are considered essential, fast food workers have to go to work. Front line staff say they feel they are being forced to risk their health, and their lives, for pay that barely rises above minimum wage. How is McDonald's, in particular, treating its employees during this time?
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Snoop Dogg has got to be the world's most unlikely domestic diva. For one thing, he's a dude. But for another thing... well, just about everything else about him. But it seems Snoop's now going into the wine business, and we can't wait to try his new stuff.
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A lot of people felt a certain sort of nostalgic pang when Pizza Hut announced they were would close around 500 stores, starting in 2019. What happened to this iconic pizza chain, and do they have a chance of turning it around? This is the real reason Pizza Hut is disappearing across the country.
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With residents in almost every U.S. state under orders to stay home to prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, big farm customers such as hotels, restaurants, and schools are shut down or severely curtailed in their operations.
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We're not sure which part of this news is more surprising: The fact that there's going to be a Flamin' Hot Cheetos movie called Flamin' Hot, or the fact that Eva Longoria has been tapped as director.
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DiGiorno just threw a curveball to all those arguing over thin or thick crust styles. Yep, there's a new line of pizzas coming from the brand, and they all feature a croissant-inspired crust.
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The familiar coffee shop experience of lounging in comfy chairs and sipping a latte while other patrons work on laptops and mingle about is non-existent in just about every corner of the United States today. When can we expect to visit a Starbucks again?
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Starbucks built its brand on creating a cozy coffee shop atmosphere where customers could relax on comfy leather chairs while socializing and sipping on their favorite latte. That "gathering spot model" doesn't work so well, though, when there's an increased risk for the spread of illness.
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The current COVID-19 crisis practically requires comfort food. One such psychological balm in these unpredictable times (low-carb diets be darned) has been fresh-baked bread. If you can't find any yeast, though, you may feel left out. What's behind the recent run on yeast?
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Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain is a busy woman these days with numerous projects in the works. Hussain, who impressed Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood enough to win in the show's 6th season in 2015, will star in a new show for Netflix called Nadiya's Time to Eat.
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On Wednesday, April 15, one customer bought a single custard donut for $1,000, and the staff at Tremont Goodie Shop, a bakery in Arlington, Ohio, was left speechless and in tears. The regular who had been visiting the shop for some 40 to 50 years wanted to help support the store.
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The city of North Olmsted, Ohio is not known as a particularly crime-ridden place — in fact, Area Vibes reports that it has a crime rate 50 percent lower than the national average. Recently, however, the local Police Department posted about a crime so serious they were asking for help.
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Chick-fil-A has been at the forefront when it comes to protecting customers and employees against the danger of infection from COVID-19. Some of their locations have taken the additional step of going cashless. Why?
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