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...that opposed the measure. The proposed initiative, listed as Question 1, would have allowed licensing boards to issue as many as 2,800 additional wine permits to food stores. Under current state law, companies can hold a maximum of three liquor licenses—a rule that prevents many supermarket chains from selling beer, wine, and spirits. With 96 percent of precincts reporting early this morning, “no” votes outnumbered “yes” ballots by a 12 percentage point margin. But in Cambridge, where voters’ liberal leanings apparently apply to libations...
...wife Little Plum have come to the capital from impoverished Gansu province and a childhood diet of "dark gruel made of tree bark and sorghum." Subsisting now on noodles and expired canned goods, they marvel at the urban paradise around them. Little Plum, writes Yan, "roams the supermarket, admiring stacks of dish detergents, napkins and bath towels as if they were flower beds or pavilions in a park." Dan's yearning for the good life - and his delight with the gustatory perks of his new calling - initially blind him to the swamp of favors and payoffs he has entered...
...offer no medical benefits, up from 31% in 2000. About 60% of companies say they expect coverage to decrease. So it's not surprising that 80% of Americans polled say the system is broken. "Really all humanity has been stripped out," says Cathi Shaefer, a grocery clerk for the supermarket giant Safeway in Upland, Calif. "The care of people is getting a lot less attention than numbers...
...With fair trade, there is the added value of transparency,” he said. Bonanno is more skeptical, however. “There’s a lot of people who say they would pay more for local products on surveys, but they rarely do so at a supermarket,” he said...
...This shift in dietary preferences and agricultural trends has created investment opportunities in supermarket, food-manufacturing and logistics companies in a number of developing countries. Consider China and India, the world's two most populous nations. Food spending in China is expected to grow 6.7% annually over the next 20 years, making the country one of the world's fastest-growing food markets, according to the McKinsey Quarterly. And in India, urban shoppers are spending more on food, groceries and personal-care items than ever before; the average monthly expenditure on these purchases jumped 14% in 2005 from 2004. According...