Cali Expands Plastic Bag Ban

Some parts of Los Angeles County have followed other California cities in moving to ban single-use plastic bags. County supervisors voted 3-1 to OK the measure that prohibits giving customers single-use plastic bags and would force customers to pay 10 cents for each paper bag, according to MSNBC. The exception to the rule, which already [...]

Retail & Celebrity Charity News Week of December 15-21

Whole Foods Donates To Hunger Relief Publicly traded healthy grocery store Whole Foods Market has donated almost $1 million worth of food to Feeding America, a charitable hunger relief organization. Feeding America, which has about 200 member food banks and food-rescue organizations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Whole Foods Market’s donation is nearly [...]

Retail & Celebrity Charity News July 21

West Elm plans to open a Toronto location in October 2008. The company has already opened a location in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Starbucks announced it will close about 600 stores in the U.S. from July through the first half of 2009. Click for the link to some stores on the list. Apple will open a [...]

Retail & Celebrity Charity News May 26

Grocer Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, the small-format grocery chain run by British retailer Tesco, announced they will add 250 new private-label products, which include more fresh-prepared ready meals, new juices and brewed teas, soy and goat yogurt and more ready-to-grill meats, The Press-Enterprise reports. The news comes after the company decided to halt plans [...]

Science, Health & Recalls April 28

London’s High Street chains, such as Tesco and Marks & Spencer, will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world’s top hackers warned while speaking on “Hackers Panel” at the InfoSecurity Europe conference, BBC reports. The hackers said cyber criminals could use tactics like those that took down Estonia’s government systems in [...]