EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market here said Monday it will have a "pink slime swap meat" Wednesday where customers can swap ground beef bought from other retailers for a package of the company's 80/20 ground beef. "Fresh & Easy never has, and never will, use the ammonia-treated filler known as 'pink slime' in its ground beef," the company said....More

Gluten-free designations are cropping up on nonfood items such as vitamins, creams, lotions and other products absorbed by the skin....More

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week denied California’s Department of Health Care Services’ effort to suspend an earlier decision by a federal judge to block cuts in Medi-Cal, the state’s...More

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Safeway store here has shielded the cover of Elle magazine featuring a pregnant Jessica Simpson, according to an Associated Press report....More

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — The families behind the Sobeys supermarket chain and the Maple Leaf Foods group have teamed to launch a new private equity firm that will invest in small Canadian manufacturing and distribution companies....More

LUBBOCK, Texas — United Supermarkets on Monday released details of what it calls its “next generation” Market Street store, now under construction here....More