Groceries

What's one of the first things you do when you're in the grocery store shopping for items that you know you want the freshet date or the most-further-out expiration date? You pick up up that item and look for the numbers.

Here's what the Food and Drug Administration has to say about wiping down your groceries. Plus other advice for shopping in the store.

Self checkouts aren't forever, you'll either like or hate what's next depending on how you feel about big brother, surveillance, and technology.

Woods Supermarket in Warrensburg is closing Sunday July 14. A new grocery store will replace it on Friday July 19.

Grocery pickup is coming to Sedalia May 30 and I couldn't be happier.

This week's round of Enquiring Minds surveys are just as unusual, thought provoking, funny, and earnest as ever.

In a study that retailers will no doubt find interesting, researchers at the University of Minnesota say that shopping on an empty stomach is probably not the wisest idea for budget-conscious consumers.

A food specialty store in Australia is sick of folks "just looking" at their merchandise without buying anything. So, starting last month, Celiac Supplies instituted a policy in which shoppers pay a five dollar door fee, which will then be deducted from any purchase.

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the small watermelons and grapes the stores are stocking now? A few years ago big watermelons and globe grapes were everywhere, as were those big South African black grapes that had such good taste...