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Errol Schweizer

@grocerynerd.bsky.social
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Grocery lifer. Bronx boy. Occasional Texan. #GroceryUpdate published weekly: open.substack.com/pub/grocerynerd?r…

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Ken Cook @ewgprez.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This week on the podcast: Errol Schweizer, one of the sharpest minds in food + grocery. Former Whole Foods V.P., Forbes writer and author of The Checkout Grocery Update on Substack, he unpacks the politics shaping our food system. @grocerynerd.bsky.social
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The privilege of MAHA and inflation in your kitchen
YouTube video by Environmental Working Group (EWG)
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Bryce Oates @bryceoates.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Excellent op-ed on public grocery stores from @civileats.com by @rajpatel.org and @grocerynerd.bsky.social. Props to @lisaelaineh.bsky.social for sharing through email newsletter.
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M. Jahi @mjahi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Important read by the inimitable @grocerynerd.bsky.social and @rajpatel.org ! civileats.com/2025/08/20/o...
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Op-ed: Public Grocery Stores Already Exist and Work Well. We Need More.
Government-run, nonprofit grocery systems can better respond to food-price inflation, corporate consolidation, and inequality.
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Somewhere In ATX @somewhereinatx.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I really liked this @grocerynerd.bsky.social update on a Co-op grocery store. grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...
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Grocery Update Volume 2, #13: Cooperative and Resilient, As Stubborn As The Hills.
Also: Why MAHA Is A Smokescreen. And Some Good News!
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
So. I've been on field manual labor crews where most of my coworkers were convicts. I've also worked with a lot of tech companies on automating farms. And this press conference is incredible. Rollins hasn't the foggiest clue what she's on about.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Please believe me when I tell you: Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now. You are going to need it. And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing. The thing that sustains and nourishes you. That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others. More present. More:
lifeisasacredtext.com
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
You can’t separate climate justice from worker justice. Agricultural workers are out in 100+ degree heat with NO federal protections. No shade, no water, no breaks. While billionaires stay cool in their boardrooms, working people are DYING from heat. www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/w...
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Tuesday was the hottest day in over a decade for parts of the East Coast. When will this extreme heat wave end? | CNN
A long-lasting extreme heat wave reached its dangerous crescendo Tuesday, bringing the hottest day in a decade to some major East Coast cities and putting millions of already fatigued Americans at ris...
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/groceryn... this is for the folks who doubted @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and his programs. They are viable and popular. We can have good food for all.
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Grocery Update Special Feature: Why It’s Time for Public Sector Grocery Stores In New York.
An Op-Ed On Building Diverse, Resilient and High Quality Food Supply Chains.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/06/2025
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed sweeping legislation Sunday to slap warning labels on potentially tens of thousands of food and beverage packages — a move that could have ripple effects across the country.
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Texas governor signs MAHA bill to add warning labels to food products
The new law will require labels on foods containing 44 dyes or additives commonly found in the country’s food supply, such as in baked goods, candy and drinks.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Last year, Kroger's CEO raked in $15.4 million — 457x more than its typical employee. Kroger also announced $7.5 billion in stock buybacks. I don't want to hear that Kroger can't afford to treat its employees fairly. Solidarity to these workers.
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UFCW 3000 @ufcw3000.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Underpaid & fed-up - Hudson News workers are rallying for a fair contract! Workers, community allies, and elected officials came together at SeaTac to show our solidarity. Later this month at the bargaining table it'll be up to Hudson to decide if workers will vote to strike or to ratify a contract.
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UFCW 3000 @ufcw3000.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
There’s a word for a system of government run by one person who prizes loyalty to the throne above all else — and it ain’t democracy.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Not too late to sign, Jews. Not too late to amplify, everyone:
foodaidforgaza.org
Jews for Food Aid for Gaza
Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza
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UzamakiJ @uzamakij.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Nothin but the facts
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
In Blue Cities, Abundance Will Require Fighting Labor Unions
Some of "The Groups" are unions, and Democrats need to be better at saying no to them, too.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Grocery workers are fighting over many of the same things as the broader labor movement—for living wages, health and safety, against understaffing and tiers. Their fight is also for the common good—understaffing and consolidation hurt community access to groceries and medication:
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Austin Frerick @austinfrerick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Big Ag + Human Trafficking: "Recent graduates were told they were coming to the US for cultural exchange. They ended up trapped in a factory farm." Blockbuster piece by @ninaelkadi.com and incredible legal work by @farmstand.bsky.social
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Recent Graduates Were Told They Were Coming to the U.S. for Cultural Exchange. They Ended Up Trapped in a Factory Farm.
A lawsuit alleges that three Guatemalan citizens, who came to the U.S. on J-1 visas, worked dangerous jobs under false pretenses.
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Grocery Update Volume 2, #4: MAHA Or Misdirection.
Grocery Nerd’s Ten Point Program To Make America Healthier Than Ever.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Kroger is allegedly overcharging consumers by listing expired sales prices on shelves and charging full price at checkout.  And thanks to decades of consolidation, Kroger stores are now the only grocers in some rural areas.   Minimal competition means maximized price gouging.
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Austin Frerick @austinfrerick.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"Underage workers have been hired to kill poultry flocks, handle dead carcasses and clean industrial poultry farms... showed workers self-identifying as young as 15." Blockbuster piece by John McCracken
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Inside the business of killing in response to bird flu
As bird flu has spread across the U.S., bird disposal companies, environmental waste businesses and large poultry producers have received millions of federal dollars to kill flocks, compost their bodi...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/05/2025
Pope Leo XIV used his first Sunday address to the faithful to call for peace. “Never again war,” he said to a roar from the crowd in St. Peter’s Square.
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Pope Leo XIV Calls for End to War in First Sunday Blessing as Pontiff
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
9/10 grocery store workers report price gouging at their stores while 4/5 workers are unable to pay basic living costs open.substack.com/pub/groceryn...
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Grocery Update #67: Feeding Wall Street While Starving Stores.
The Long-Term Harm From Short-Term Profits.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 08/05/2025
9/10 grocery store workers report price gouging at their stores while 4/5 workers are unable to pay basic living costs: an important new report on Krogers & Albertsons h/t Errol Schweizer economicrt.org/publication/...
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Republican Governor @gregabbottx.bsky.social said Texas “wears the crown as the bitcoin mining capital of the world.” For @therealnews.com I've spoken to working-class residents in Granbury who live right next to a massive bitcoin mine & are paying the horrific price for Texas’s crypto boom...
‘Like being tortured’: Texas residents living next to bitcoin mine are getting sick and being ignored

by Maximillian Alvarez
May 7, 2025

Republican Governor Greg Abbott said Texas “wears the crown as the bitcoin mining capital of the world.” But in small towns like Granbury, working-class residents living next to giant data centers are the ones paying the price for Texas’s crypto boomA bitcoin mine in Texas is “killing us slowly,” local residents say

After a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation came to Granbury, TX, residents started suffering from hypertension, heart palpitations, tinnitus, migraines, and more—and they say their concerns are going ignored by the company and government officials. It’s “environmental euthanasia,” one resident tells TRNN.

by Maximillian Alvarez 
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
These publicly traded retailers are just atm machines for the moneyed class. open.substack.com/pub/groceryn...
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Grocery Update #67: Feeding Wall Street While Starving Stores.
The Long-Term Harm From Short-Term Profits.
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Austin Frerick @austinfrerick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“We need to put Driscoll’s in the bad company column" -Dolores Huerta Driscoll's refuses to produce organic berries next to schools. “I look at it like murder,” said Ann Aurelia López. “You’re exposing kids to things that will potentially kill them."
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Dolores Huerta raises awareness about pesticide use in Pajaro Valley
More than a hundred community members gathered outside the agricultural fields behind MacQuiddy Elementary School in Watsonville on an overcast Saturday morning to hear iconic activist and labor or…
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Store brands, or private labels, continue to gain market share. The year over year growth of store brands far exceeds that of national brands and it is accelerating. Over 59% of US consumers would buy more private label... open.substack.com/pub/groceryn...
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Grocery Update #65: How Store Brands Conquered Grocery.
Surfing The Private Label Tsunami? Paddle Harder.
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up... @foodchainworkers.bsky.social @ipes-food.org @healfoodalliance.bsky.social
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Grocery Update: May Day 2025 Edition
In Partnership with Food Chain Workers Alliance and allies. Solidarity, y'all.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
HAPPY MAY DAY ✊🍞🌹 Here’s a whole thing on the labor justice imperatives in Judaism:
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The Bible Commands: Solidarity Forever ✊
The One With The Labor Justice Torah
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 30/04/2025
🚨NEWS: The Federal Reserve says that as prices increase, corporate profits have hit at an unprecedented share of national income & that the profiteering is “driven by an increase in dividends rewarding shareholders” — while worker compensation declines. www.levernews.com/how-sharehol...
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How Shareholder Payouts Fuel Corporate Profiteering
A new Federal Reserve study says record corporate profit increases are "driven by an increase in the dividends rewarding shareholders.”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
More Americans are reporting using "Buy Now, Pay Later" plans to purchase groceries, according to a survey from Lending Tree. 25% of respondents said they used BNPL loans for groceries. That number was 14% in 2024.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 29/04/2025
a President Bernie Sanders woulda been removed by a military coup supported by both parties and their pundits had he amassed this economic performance after 100 days in office
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 28/04/2025
What do South Africa’s Black Working Class, Donald Trump, and Elon Musk have in common? Hammer and Hope interviews Abahlali baseMjondolo's Zandile Nsibande to find out more on land + politics. hammerandhope.org/article/musk...
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
If you are new to this channel, here are some of our most important analyses about how the grocery industry functions, the retail math and the sleight of hand that brings food to shelves. open.substack.com/pub/groceryn...
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The Grocery Nerd Starter Kit.
Everything You Need To Know About The Grocery Business. So Far.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/04/2025
🚨INVESTIGATION: Trump ended a price-gouging probe - now corporations are plotting to use his tariff threats to impose price increases, even if they're not hit by the tariffs. “Now is the time to take advantage," said one "price optimization" consultant. www.levernews.com/how-trump-is...
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How Trump Is Helping Price Gougers Exploit His Tariffs
Emboldened by the new administration’s regulatory reprieve, “price optimization” consultants are showing corporations how to weaponize import levies to fleece consumers.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Former Shen Yun workers say the group profits by exploiting an "army of child laborers" who often work 15-hours days, six days a week, for just $500 a month. The two workers who have come forward began working for Shen Yun at ages 15 and 13.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis staying alive long enough to insult JD Vance is an amazing exercise in will. May his memory be a blessing.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Two-thirds of NYers support city-owned grocery stores. Three-fourths support free buses. Nearly 80% support a rent-freeze. I'm running for mayor to deliver these exact policies. Our campaign is surging because unlike Andrew Cuomo, we know what working people need and deserve.
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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We demand agrarian reform, redistribution of land to those who till it, an end to criminalization & recognition of rights of peasants, as enshrined in #UNDROP 📃https://shorturl.at/bvvH9 #PeasantStruggles @defendingundrop.bsky.social @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social @michaelfakhri.bsky.social
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 16/04/2025
"Visiting the Faroes, I learned a whole new way that America is a humiliating international laggard. Our tax system is about the worst of all possible worlds—expensive, ultra-complicated, inefficient, slow, inaccurate, wildly unfair, and an enormous headache for the citizenry." From @ryanlcooper.com
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The Best Tax System on Earth
YouTube video by The American Prospect
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
But Walmart is Walmart, still the center of the grocery universe, the supermassive black hole about which all else rotates, willingly or not. We are all just in the Walmart accretion disk. open.substack.com/pub/groceryn...
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Grocery Update #62: Southern Exposure, Part 1: Food Lion and Kroger.
Big Grocery Squares Off In The Deep South.
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 15/04/2025
Just IPES-Food's animation video, "WHY CHEAP FOOD COMES AT A VERY HIGH PRICE", being shown on the main floor of the @fao.org. While cheap ultra processed food is the norm, a low price tag comes with very heavy costs — for health, people, & planet. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGd6... #scalingtca
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Pump And Dump open.substack.com/pub/groceryn...
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Grocery Update #61: The Tariff Shell Game.
Also: Albertsons' Tariff-Related Price Increase Policy.
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Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#MAHA
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune. It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
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