Uptown Madison Avenue, the city’s premier luxury shopping street, is undergoing profound changes in the golden blocks where East Midtown meets the Upper East Side. Two major office and retail buildings are being demolished to make way for new mixed-use projects about which little is known. Meanwhile, wealthy fashionistas and even wealthier real estate investors […]
Walmart announced that it is partnering with organics recycling company Denali to address the problem of food waste in its stores. Retail TouchPoints reported that the mega-chain will use Denali’s “unpacking” technology at both Walmart and Sam’s Club to separate food from packaging destined for disposal. Employees usually do this by hand, and the new […]
Before Taylor Swift’s July 14, 2023 concert in Denver, Aditi Desai, marketing director for the Food Bank of the Rockies, received an unusual call. The billionaire pop star wanted to donate tens of thousands of meals to the nonprofit organization – a philanthropic act that, much like her favorite songs, she repeats as she travels […]
Food products from Nestlé SA: Cheerios, Nescafe, Nesquik, KitKat, Milkybar and Purina pet food. Holly Adams/Bloomberg The world’s largest food company is once again focusing on the essentials: It wants to feed a growing planet whose consumers are becoming increasingly savvy and less financially well off. Nestlé SA, the maker of DiGiorno pizza and Purina […]
A Charleston-based renewable energy company is planning a partnership with the SC Corrections Department on a recycling agreement that will supply natural gas to companies including BMW Production in the Upstate and Mercedes-Benz Vans in North Charleston. GreenGas USA wants to take manure from a 7,000 acre dairy farm with 1,200 cows next to Wateree […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA decided Saturday that it was too risky to return two astronauts to Earth in Boeing’s new, troubled capsule. They will have to wait until next year for a flight home with SpaceX. What was supposed to be a one-week test flight for the couple will now take more than […]
Stolen goods worth $450,000 seized After months of investigation, stolen goods worth nearly half a million dollars were seized from a home in Oakland. The order Stolen goods worth nearly half a million dollars seized from an Oakland home A woman was arrested for her alleged involvement in a fencing operation Most of the items […]
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (left) and Suni Williams pose in the hatch that connects Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station. NASA Boeing will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts it launched into orbit in early June, the agency said Saturday. With the Starliner returning to Earth empty, […]
Weld County rates restaurants, schools, grocery stores and other food-handling facilities based on three categories — passed, required re-inspection and closed. As part of the county’s rating index, officials evaluate facilities on factors such as refrigeration, reheating, cooking-cooling and warming equipment, cross-contamination between raw food and ready-to-eat food and employee hygiene, according to the county. […]
Just months after Jeff Gibbs took ownership of Smoker’s BBQ Pit, his business went up in flames. After taking over the popular barbecue restaurant in March 2023, Gibbs faced an unprecedented challenge: closing his new business venture indefinitely. The closure was due to a massive fire caused by a lightning strike. The fire broke out […]
