The highly contagious virus has wreaked havoc on flocks of chickens, and Mainers are now seeing the impacts in local stores with empty or sparsely stocked egg coolers.
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Rosemont Market & Bakery closing Munjoy Hill location
The Congress Street store had been in business for 17 years.
New Market Basket coming to The Downs in Scarborough
The supermarket, which has stores in Biddeford, Westbrook and Topsham, will employ 300 people.
Hannaford back online, but questions remain about cybersecurity issue
The grocery store did not say whether customer data was affected.
Hannaford outage blocks some credit card sales, to-go orders
All Hannaford locations remained open Thursday, but some were cash-only. It was not clear how many stores were impacted.
With national closure, Yelloh food delivery service will lay off 14 workers near Bangor
The company filed a WARN notice with Maine JobLink Sep. 23, the same day it announced its national closure.
Grocery chains are bigger than ever. Here’s a look at the market.
Over the past 3 decades, the traditional supermarket industry shrank as a handful of big-name grocers acquired their smaller local and regional rivals.
Kroger and Albertsons defend merger plan against U.S. regulators’ objections
A hearing began Monday in federal court in Oregon on the merger plan proposed in October 2022.
Small grocers feel squeezed by suppliers, and shoppers bear the pain
Grocery owners say they have little room to maneuver amid already razor-thin margins.
Grocers are finally lowering prices as consumers pull back spending
An array of federal regulators, Democratic lawmakers and think tanks contend that large retailers have kept prices artificially high.