Around 300 grocery store workers took to the streets of La Verne from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday in a march organized by Grocery Workers Rising, a Southern California labor group.
People now have another way to buy groceries in the comfort of their own home in some parts of California, thanks to Amazon’s online grocery service AmazonFresh.
From feeding neighbors from a single seed to now feeding over 6,000 people each month, Sowing Seeds for Life provides groceries twice a month to families who live in Los Angeles County between downtown Los Angeles and Claremont.
Egg rolls to the left, pasta to the right, the smell of chicken wafting throughout while the music played. That is what people experienced at the La Verne Chamber of Commerce’s annual Taste of La Verne on Tuesday at the Sierra La Verne Country Club
One of La Verne’s biggest shopping boulevards is about to get even bigger, with the construction of more than 100,000 square feet of new retail space on Foothill Boulevard, east of Wheeler Avenue.
Supermarket union contract renewal time is quickly approaching for three major Southern California stores, as unpleasant memories of the 2003-2004 strike run through the minds of both employees and shoppers.