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As the fall season comes into full swing, fall-flavored snacks and desserts are taking over grocery stores and pantries, especially with the holy grail ingredient: pumpkin. Whether you’re making pumpkin pie or pumpkin eggnog, you are destined to have a few cans of leftover pumpkin puree. Instead of throwing it
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Since June, most employees of large chain grocery stores in Berkeley have not received hazard pay as compensation for pandemic-related risks.
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Despite the recent surge of COVID-19 cases, large grocery store chains such as Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, have not offered their employees adequate hazard pay.
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Tony’s Chocolonely, a Dutch chocolate company with goals of transforming the chocolate production industry against illegal child labor, has begun its collaboration with UC Berkeley through its Collegiate Changemaker program.
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Stigma against canned and frozen produce is reflective of systemic discrimination toward communities that do not have access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
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CalPIRG and other organizations recently initiated a campaign calling on Whole Foods Market to remove single-use plastic packaging from its shelves.
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Current and former Whole Foods employees filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the company for allegedly barring them from wearing Black Lives Matter attire at work.
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When thinking of essential jobs, people scarcely picture grocery store employees, delivery drivers and gas station attendants, but for the last few weeks, they have been working to ensure communities have the goods and services they need.
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Dear Pumpkin Spice, God knows I adore you. Your spicy-sweet aroma is mouthwatering, and you taste like a combination of chai, snickerdoodles and a warm hug. I have some issues, however, with how you arrive on supermarket shelves earlier and earlier each year. Septembers are meant for new beginnings:
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On July 1, AC Transit bus users experienced a 25-cent increase in fares for adult riders paying in cash, though the price for Clipper card users remained stagnant.
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