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7-Eleven Launches Home Delivery, Partners With Postmates

An assortment of 7‑Eleven’s products from hot foods and snacks to cold beverages and other convenience items is just a few taps away and will be delivered by Postmates to customers from select stores in San Francisco and Oakland in an hour or less.

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Whole Foods Market Apologizes For Overcharging Of Mislabeled Products

Whole Foods Market co-CEOs Walter Robb and John Mackey, in a video released online, acknowledged that customers were charged incorrect prices for some of their products, put the blame on some employees and apologized, according to The Washington Post.

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JBS USA To Acquire Cargill's Pork Business For $1.45 Billion

Included in JBS’ acquisition of Cargill’s pork business are two Midwest meat processing plants, five feed mills and four hog farms.

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Weights and Pricing: A Message to Our Customers - Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market admits to overcharging customers in New York City and talks about the steps they are taking to fix their pricing issues.

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Kraft Shareholders Approve Merger With Heinz

The transaction will create the third-largest food and beverage company in North America, and the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world.

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ConAgra Foods Inc. To Exit Private Label

ConAgra bought Ralcorp in 2013 to become the biggest maker of U.S. private label foods, but the business has been plagued with problems ranging from customer service issues to pricing concessions, with sales falling nearly six percent in two years.

ConAgra Chief Executive Sean Connolly said on the company's earnings call on Tuesday it was clear trying to turn around the private label business was draining resources and that the segment would likely attract significant interest from potential buyers.

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Worker Visa Delays Cost U.S. Farmers Millions

The problem with the U.S. visa system began on June 9, and the U.S. had been able to issue only a relatively small number of visas to those affected by the outage, including seasonal and humanitarian workers.

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Peapod Launches Fresh Produce Delivery Service

Throughout the summer, customers in New York City, New Jersey, Eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin will have the option of adding a box of produce from local farms.

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Featured In Food Logistics: How To Prepare For A Warehouse Technology Upgrade

The rise of e-commerce has already significantly altered the way companies fulfill orders, so companies are taking steps to modernize both their warehouse technology and their warehouse infrastructure to keep up with these changes.

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Sysco Scraps Plan To Merge With US Foods

Under terms of the merger agreement, the termination of the transaction requires Sysco to pay break-up fees of $300 million to US Foods and $12.5 million to PFG.

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Judge Explains Why He Halted The Sysco/US Foods Merger

Judge Mehta’s 128-page ruling said the Sysco-US Foods tie-up, announced in December 2013, was the type of large combination that lawmakers were concerned about long ago when they gave the government the power to halt mergers.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said there was “plenty of evidence” in the case that showed restaurants and other buyers of food-distribution services use a mix of providers besides Sysco and US Foods.

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