Tag: supermarket

3 big supermarket chains agree to Palace request to sell refined sugar supplies at P70/kilo

SM Supermalls, Robinsons Supermarket, and Puregold to sell their inventory at a lower price; limit is 1 kilo per buyer (Eagle News) – Malacanang said on Friday, August 19, that three big supermarket chains have already promised to sell their refined sugar supplies at a lower price of P70 per kilo. Supermarkets of SM, Robinson’s and Puregold have all agreed to the request of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., to sell at least 1 million […]

Multiple’ deaths in US mass shooting at Colorado grocery store

  by Jason CONNOLLY with Andrew Marszal in Los Angeles Agence France Presse BOULDER, United States (AFP) — A gunman killed multiple people including a police officer at a grocery store in Colorado on Monday, police said, in the latest shooting to hit the western state — scene of two of the most infamous US mass murders. One “person of interest” is injured and in custody, police commander Kerry Yamaguchi told reporters, following the incident […]

In supermarket front lines, cashiers fear the worst

by Alexandria SAGE ROME, Italy (AFP) — The customers wander around in the stores, touch the food and even lick their fingers while riffling through bills. Anyone of them could have the virus, and pass it along. Such are the nagging thoughts of grocery store workers in Italy and beyond: exhausted, unprotected and, much says, overly exposed to the coronavirus. Around the world, where millions of people are quarantined at home, people can still shop […]

Empty shelves in a Berlin supermarket amid COVID-19 outbreak

Situation in a supermarket in Berlin (Situation im Supermarkt in Berlin ) Aufgenommen am Montag, 16. März, 2020 gegen 12:00 Uhr Mittags.  (Taken on Monday, 16 March 2020 about 12 noon) Die Regale sind leer. Es ist nur noch das vorrätig was da ist. Laut einem Mitarbeiter werden Sie jeden Tag beliefert, aber wissen nicht was an Ware kommt. Lebensmittel die immer ausverkauft sind: Hygiene Artikel wie Toilettenpapier, Mehl, Nudeln , Reis und Konservendosen Brot […]

10 hurt in Saint Petersburg supermarket bombing

by Marina Koreneva Agence France-Presse SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia — A homemade bomb blast at a supermarket in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg injured 10 people Wednesday, officials said, sparking a probe into attempted murder. “According to preliminary information, an explosion of an unidentified object occurred in a store,” a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, said in a statement. The blast was caused by a “homemade explosive device with the power equivalent to 200 grammes of TNT […]