Insights and Stories of Lisa Baertlein

Whole Foods slashes prices on some produce

Aug. 28, 2017 at 7:16 pm CDT

Los Angeles/Chicago | Reuters — On its first day as part of Amazon.com, organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market slashed prices on popular items like avocados and apples on Monday by a third as it bid to shake off its “Whole Paycheque” reputation for high prices. In another sign of […]

Amazon to cut Whole Foods prices amid intense grocery turf war

Aug. 24, 2017 at 5:01 pm CDT

By David Shepardson Lisa Baertlein

KFC to curb antibiotic use in U.S. chickens it buys

Apr. 7, 2017 at 5:19 pm CDT

By Lisa Baertlein

Investors press meat producers to cut water pollution

Nov. 21, 2016 at 9:22 pm CST

By Lisa Baertlein

McDonald’s investor renews push to cut antibiotics in all meat

Nov. 17, 2016 at 7:36 pm CST

By Lisa Baertlein

Shareholders press Yum for stricter antibiotics policy

Aug. 9, 2016 at 4:59 pm CDT

Los Angeles | Reuters — Yum Brands investors on Tuesday filed a shareholder proposal requesting that it quickly phase out harmful antibiotic use in its meat supply, taking aim at the practices of the company’s KFC fried chicken chain. The proposal from shareholder activists As You Sow, of Oakland, Calif., […]

By Lisa Baertlein

New Whole Foods chain 365 faces tough mission

May. 25, 2016 at 5:51 pm CDT

Los Angeles | Reuters — Whole Foods Market’s 365 grocery chain offers lower prices and more technology than the company’s namesake supermarkets, but experts say the fledgling brand must beat its many rivals without hijacking customers from its parent. 365, which debuted on Wednesday with a bright and airy store […]

By Lisa Baertlein

Activists press Olive Garden on antibiotics, worker pay

May. 13, 2016 at 7:11 pm CDT

Los Angeles | Reuters — Dozens of activist groups, emboldened by recent policy shifts at major U.S. restaurants, are demanding Olive Garden owner Darden Restaurants change its food and labour practices. Their sweeping agenda, part of a campaign called “Good Food Now,” includes calls for the nation’s largest full-service restaurant […]

By Lisa Baertlein

Dole under U.S. probe after deadly listeria outbreak

Apr. 30, 2016 at 2:37 pm CDT

Los Angeles | Reuters — Dole Food Co. Inc. said on Friday the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating a deadly listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to packaged salad products from its processing plant in Springfield, Ohio. Dole, the world’s largest fruit and vegetable producer, said in a statement the agency […]

By Lisa Baertlein

Investor group launches campaign to curb antibiotic use in food

Apr. 11, 2016 at 3:46 pm CDT

Reuters — Fifty-four large investors managing one trillion pounds (C$1.84 trillion) in assets have launched a campaign to curb the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry used by 10 large U.S. and British restaurant groups. McDonalds and JD Wetherspoon were among those to receive a March 15 letter […]

By Lisa Baertlein Martinne Geller Simon Jessop