Supermarket/Grocery

Unions representing essential workers at some of Canada's major retailers are pushing back against the decision to eliminate wage premiums that were put in place to compensate employees for working during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With convenience stores and micro markets declared essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic, your site likely adopted a stricter cleaning routine to prevent the virus spread.

Most of us are familiar with the slew of well-known phrases that, for decades, have been imprinted into the eating culture of Canadians.

In the first weeks of the pandemic, stores resembled a doomsday scene, with shelves picked clean by panicked consumers rushing to stockpile essentials.

Even in these times, barely a day goes by where there’s not a dire warning about the environmental predicament the planet faces.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a dramatic impact on how consumers shop.

The last two months have seen a lot of new safety protocols and practices quickly adopted across the grocery industry.

The University of Western Ontario’s Human Environments Analysis Lab (HEAL) has launched a study of employees and owners/managers in the grocery and foodservice sectors to determine COVID-19’s impact on their industry.