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Just Beyond the Parking Lot
Wal-Mart gobbles up local produce |
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02 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:55 AM on 02 Jul 2008 You thought you took home a haul at the farmers market last week, but you've got nothin' on Wal-Mart. The big-box retailer has become the nation's largest buyer of local produce, planning to purchase and sell $400 million worth of locally grown fruits and veggies this year. Wal-Mart says it works with "hundreds" of individual farmers, and has 50 percent more partnerships with local growers t ... |
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| Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, local food, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Nipping Energy Use in the Spud
Frito-Lay hopes to manufacture eco-friendly potato chips |
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15 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 3:31 PM on 15 Nov 2007 You know it's crunch time when a potato-chip factory goes green. A Frito-Lay factory in Arizona has plans to produce, yes, carbon-neutral potato chips: sliced, fried, seasoned, and bagged in a plant nearly entirely off-grid and powered with renewable fuels. The company's Casa Grande plant will make do in its desert locale by recycling water, and will advertise that it's using ... |
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| Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news (all these topics) |
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