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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

supermarkets

The first Israeli branch of Dutch-owned international supermarket SPAR, set to open in Kfar Saba on March 19, 2024. (Courtesy)
March 14, 2024, 11:09 pm
SPAR to open debut supermarket store in Israel next week
SPAR license holder Amit Zeev to launch the first store in Kfar Saba, with 10 more planned within months, out of a total of 35 branches, as Israelis grapple with price hikes
By Sharon Wrobel
Rachel Gur, director of public policy at Lobby 99, the public lobby. (Courtesy)
June 2, 2023, 6:39 am
What Matters Now to lobbyist Rachel Gur: Why Israel is so #₪@$! expensive
Monopoly isn’t just a board game for Lobby 99’s director of public policy. This week, we hear how a mere handful of powerful companies control prices in almost every sector
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Outside view of a Carrefour store Aug. 25, 2010 in Ecully, near Lyon, central France (AP Photo/Thomas Campagne)
May 3, 2023, 11:20 pm
Carrefour to open dozens of supermarkets in Israel next week, vowing to tackle costs
Some 50 stores to launch on Tuesday, with 100 more planned to open by year’s end, as Israelis grapple with price hikes
By ToI Staff
FILE: Olive growers and workers harvesting the Koroneiki Olive Variety at an olive grove in Moshav Eliad in the southern Golan Heights in December 2022 (Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90)
March 14, 2023, 5:52 pm
With olives pressed and picked, local farmers hope consumers discover oil in Israel
Olive growers and oil producers seek greater exposure for their product, cultivated and pressed in small batches but suffering from competition with cheaper, lower-quality imports
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli computer vision startup Shopic's clip-on device for smart grocery carts. (Courtesy)
February 21, 2023, 3:41 pm
Startup’s clip-on device for smart carts deployed at Shufersal
Israel’s largest supermarket chain will be using at least 2,000 of Shopic’s cameras and screens in 30 stores by the end of next month
By Sharon Wrobel
Wasteless uses artificial intelligence to lower prices as perishable foods approach their sell-by dates. (Courtesy, Wasteless)
December 13, 2022, 8:28 pm
Dutch retail chain buys Israeli software linking food prices to expiration dates
By combining data, Wasteless can gradually lower the price of an item to appeal to customers, while maximizing a retailer’s margins and slashing waste
By Sue Surkes
Outside view of a Carrefour store Aug. 25, 2010 in Ecully, near Lyon, central France (AP Photo/Thomas Campagne)
July 24, 2022, 2:43 pm
Arrival of French supermarket giant Carrefour will drop living costs, Lapid predicts
PM stresses that the government backs market competition, warns days of ‘irresponsible’ pricing are over; Dutch SPAR chain inks deal signaling intention to also open local branches
By ToI Staff
Wolt workers shop for customers at the Wolt Market grocery store in Neve Zedek, in Tel Aviv, May 2022. (Shai Azeri/Wolt Israel)
May 31, 2022, 8:33 pm
Wolt launches grocery delivery from new Market store in Tel Aviv
Finnish delivery giant opens first grocery store in Neve Tzedek neighborhood, as Israel joins 17 other countries where company operates food retail and delivery logistics
By Ricky Ben-David
Ghufran Almusawi, proprietor of Al Basha Grocery in Tucson, Arizona, speaks with a Jewish customer. Her store sells both kosher and halal products in an effort to create a 'melting pot' for Jews and Muslims. (Michael Zaccaria/Keeping Jewish/ via JTA)
June 5, 2021, 9:44 am
This Muslim market in Tucson offers kosher food and intercultural dialogue
‘Both religions teach peace,’ says owner Ghufran Almusawi. ‘Everybody is welcome. And if there are any items missing that they are looking for, we’re always willing to bring it in’
By Nicole Raz
A shopper walks past empty shelves where bread is normally displayed in a supermarket, March 15, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
March 25, 2020, 5:22 pm
Supermarkets see more shoplifters amid outbreak; most are regular customers
Guards say culprits mainly say they’re not able to make ends meet after layoffs; most commonly stolen items have been canned goods, pasta
By ToI Staff
Shelves are empty of hand sanitizer in a supermarket in Sydney on March 4, 2020. (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP)
March 4, 2020, 9:33 am
Virus panic buying prompts toilet paper rationing in Australia
Largest supermarket chain also restricts purchase of hand sanitizers as manufacturers struggle to keep up; police called in Sydney when knife drawn in toilet paper aisle
By AFP
In this July 12, 2009 file, the empty parking lot of an Auchan hypermarket is seen in Plaisir, France. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
April 3, 2019, 11:32 am
French supermarket chain apologizes over swastika money belts
After complaint by customer in Polish branch, Auchan says sale of product sale was an ‘oversight’ and it is being pulled from shelves
By AFP
A robot on wheels developed by Tel Aviv-based CommonSense Robotics helps deliver goods faster to consumers (YouTube screenshot)
November 11, 2018, 4:37 pm
Israeli robot-filled warehouse seeks to cut delivery time for groceries
Tel Aviv-based CommonSense Robotics launches what it calls ‘the world’s smallest automated e-commerce facility,’ believing that when robots process orders, errors are reduced
By Federico Maccioni
Hungarian Kosher Foods is located in Skokie, Illinois, after moving from Chicago in 1986. (Hungarian Kosher Foods/Facebook/via JTA)
April 16, 2018, 4:05 am
It’s the end of an era for America’s first all-kosher supermarket
When a couple who survived the Holocaust opened Hungarian Kosher Foods in 1973, the idea of having a certified grocery, bakery, and butcher under one roof was unheard of
By Yvette Alt Miller
An illustrative photo of a shopper at a grocery store picking up a box of matzah. (William Thomas Cain/Getty Images/via JTA)
March 30, 2018, 2:49 am
Kosher supermarkets hate cleaning for Passover as much as you do
For grocers servicing the Jewish community, it takes staffers weeks to scour away any trace of leaven; one Brooklyn store spends $75,000 converting its kitchen
By Ben Sales
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