Union accuses Marsh of unfair labor practices
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700 says the grocery chain used illegal interrogation practices and fired a worker
for exercising his right to organize a union.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700 says the grocery chain used illegal interrogation practices and fired a worker
for exercising his right to organize a union.
State regulators have issued a $17,000 fine against Kroger Co. over a warehouse accident that led to a worker’s death.
The 32-year-old Kroger worker had been on life support since a pallet of bottled water fell on her March 15.
Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries will begin selling its ice cream in nine metropolitan Meijer stores beginning April 5. Distribution
will be assisted by the building of a 12,000-square-foot facility on the northwest side.
Florida-based Sun Capital has completed the turnaround of Marsh Supermarkets and now is seeking a buyer
for the home-grown chain. CEO Frank Lazaran told IBJ Sun will sell Marsh “when the market is right, financing
is right, and
someone is willing to pay a fair multiple.”
An Indiana legislative committee recommends carryout sales of alcohol remain banned on Sundays, and liquor stores stay the
only place to buy cold beer.
The O’Malia’s Food Market near 56th Street and Emerson Avenue will close for good this weekend after a 33-year run.
An Indiana State Excise Police initiative that uses underage customers to catch retailers selling alcohol to people under
age 21 netted more than 370 violations across Indiana in only three months.
A new eye-grabbing advertising design in The Indianapolis Star has some wondering where ad content stops and news
content begins.
Supporters and foes of repealing Indiana’s ban on Sunday take-out alcohol sales made their cases before a group of lawmakers yesterday in a preview of what could be a divisive debate in the next legislative session.
The new market, which will also offer catering services, is in a strip center owned by locally based
Centre Properties and anchored by Beauty Brands and Panera.
Sunday is the second-busiest grocery-shopping day of the week in Indiana, but there’s one product Hoosiers aren’t
allowed to put in their shopping carts that day even though it’s perfectly legal the rest of the week. That’s
because an archaic blue law prohibits carryout liquor sales on Sundays.
Marsh Supermarkets quickly realized it could not honor the flood of redemptions of the $10 coupon it recently offered to its
Facebook friends.
Marsh Supermarkets late yesterday issued a mea culpa after it stopped honoring a $10 coupon just
days after introducing the online promotion.
Marsh Supermarkets’ decision to stop honoring a $10 online coupon just days after introducing the promotion has angered
hundreds of followers of the grocer’s Facebook page.
Marsh Supermarkets’ decision to stop honoring a $10 online coupon just days after introducing
the promotion has angered hundreds of followers of the grocer’s Facebook page.
Georgetown Market has stayed in the health food game since 1973, in part because of owner Rick Montieth’s ability to see down
the road.
Matt Ewer and his wife, Elizabeth Blessing, launched Farm Fresh Delivery LLC in July. With nearly 500 subscribers already,
the organically- and locally-grown-groceries delivery business is blooming in a segment where many large, mass-market retailers
failed during the dotcom bust.
The developer of a $750 million mixed-use project called Venu has acquired a 13-acre site across the street from where another
developer had planned to build condos and a Whole Foods Market.
By now, David Marsh might be regretting he ever decided to take on former employer Marsh Supermarkets Inc. in court. Since
he filed his lawsuit last fall charging the company his grandfather founded had shortchanged him on severance, the company
has stormed back with a blizzard of allegations.