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Trader Joe’s, which indicated earlier this month it might change the names of some of its products after an online petition denounced them as racist, now says it will stick with labels like Trader Jose’s and Trader Ming’s for Mexican and Asian food. “We want to be clear: we disagree that any of these labels are racist,” the popular...

In the latest call to re-name racially charged brands and logos, nearly 1,000 people have signed an online petition urging Trader Joe’s to stop labeling its international food products with ethnic-sounding names

Before the coronavirus pandemic, many customers selected where to shop for groceries based on a store’s location, product prices and food selection. These days, however, more and more consumers are also taking stock of what stores are doing to protect shoppers and workers from COVID-19. In the newly released Consumer Health & Safety Index, marketing research company Ipsos Group compared...

Ready-to-eat sushi, salads and other refrigerated products sold at Trader Joe’s stores, including in the tri-state area, are being recalled because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Vegetable products sold under the Trader Joe’s, Green Giant Fresh and Signature Farms Brands are being recalled due to concerns over Listeria contamination.

Popular supermarket vegetable products — including Green Giant Fresh and Trader Joe’s brands — sold in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and other states have been pulled off the shelves because of concerns about possible bacterial contamination.

Consumer Reports has released its latest supermarket report, which ranks America’s top grocery stores. The findings are based on a survey of more than 75,000 Consumer Reports subscribers.

There is an app that helps people find a little money in the form of refunds on products they’ve already bought. Lynda Baquero reports.

In an effort to keep grocery prices low, Trader Joe’s is kicking its delivery service to the curb. For almost 13 years, the grocery chain known for its upbeat staff and insanely popular frozen meals brought groceries to the homes of customers around New York City. But on March 1, Trader Joe’s will stop the popular service — and devoted...

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The woman who took photos of a former regular on “The Cosby Show” while he worked at a New Jersey grocery store says she’s filled with regret over the uproar they caused. Karma Lawrence tells NJ.com she took the photos on impulse and meant no ill will toward Geoffrey Owens. She shuttered her social media accounts after her photos showed...

Geoffrey Owens considers himself an actor, not a celebrity. Over the weekend, the Cosby Show actor started trending on Twitter after he was job-shamed in a Daily Mail article for working at a Trader Joe’s grocery store in New Jersey. Celebrities including Pamela Adlon, Justine Bateman, Terry Crews, Patricia Heaton, Patton Oswalt and Blair Underwood defended him, with many of...

The United States Department of Agriculture issued a public health alert for beef, pork and poultry salad and wrap products, three varieties of which are found at Trader Joe’s, due to concerns about contamination with Cyclospora.

The bullet that killed a Trader Joe’s store manager in an exchange of gunfire with a homicide suspect following a pursuit crash Saturday was fired by a Los Angeles Police Department officer, police said Tuesday morning.

Melyda “Mely” Maricela Corado was the manager of the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s. She died in the standoff between police and 28-year-old Gene Atkins on Saturday.

A pursuit ended with a crash and gunfire in front of a Los Angeles Trader Joe’s. The suspect fled into the supermarket and was later taken into custody. Authorities say one woman was killed at the store.

Twenty-eight-year-old Gene Evin Atkins has been arrested on suspicion of murder after shooting his grandmother and girlfriend then crashing his car into a busy supermarket where he held dozens of people hostage in a standoff with the police.