Meatpacking District to lose last beef businesses as trendy nabe eyes new housing deal
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Meatpacking District to lose last beef businesses as trendy nabe eyes new housing deal

ByNews Polite

The Meatpacking District’s last remaining meatpackers might soon give way to 600 rental apartments, a Whitney Museum expansion and new facilities for Friends of the High Line, Realty Check has learned. The meat merchants, which once numbered in the hundreds, dwindled to a mere few in recent decades as the area drew…

McDonald’s rules out beef patties as source of E. coli outbreak
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McDonald’s rules out beef patties as source of E. coli outbreak

ByNews Polite

McDonald’s on Sunday ruled out beef patties as a source of the E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder hamburgers, which has killed at least one person and sickened nearly 75 others. “We remain very confident that any contaminated product related to this outbreak has been removed from our supply…

Amazon may be primed to add space near its NYC headquarters as more workers return to office
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Amazon may be primed to add space near its NYC headquarters as more workers return to office

ByNews Polite

Amazon, which recently told 350,000 employees it wants them all back in the office five days a week, apparently needs more room for them. Jeff Bezos’ tech and retailing behemoth is in talks to lease  all of HSBC’s 350,000 square feet at 452 Fifth Ave. when the bank moves to…

McDonald’s boss vows to improve safety after E. coli outbreak
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McDonald’s boss vows to improve safety after E. coli outbreak

ByNews Polite

McDonald’s scrambled on Wednesday to contain the damage from an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others, as it pulled the menu item from restaurants across a dozen states. The outbreak has sickened people across the US West and Midwest,…

Retired veteran, 79, died after eating Boar’s Head meat other than liverwurst: lawsuit
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Retired veteran, 79, died after eating Boar’s Head meat other than liverwurst: lawsuit

ByNews Polite

Boar’s Head — the embattled deli meat giant at the center of a listeria outbreak tied to its liverwurst — was slapped with a wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday by the family of a man who died after allegedly eating the company’s ham. Retired Air Force veteran Otis Adams Jr….

Grocery retailers aren’t sharing nutrition facts online: study
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Grocery retailers aren’t sharing nutrition facts online: study

ByNews Polite

Stew on this — a new analysis of 10 grocery websites found that retailers provided nutrition facts and other pertinent information online only 35% of the time. “The government has clearly intended that you should be able to know certain things about your food,” said senior study author and Tufts University…

Walgreens to close 1,200 stores nationwide, says 1 in 4 unprofitable
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Walgreens to close 1,200 stores nationwide, says 1 in 4 unprofitable

ByNews Polite

Walgreens announced that it will shutter 1,200 stores over the next three years — and 500 locations in 2025 alone — as the drugstore giant seeks to slash $1 billion in costs. The Chicago-based pharmacy chain, which has around 8,700 locations nationwide, told analysts on Tuesday that one in four…

7-Eleven closing nearly 450 underperforming stores
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7-Eleven closing nearly 450 underperforming stores

ByNews Polite

Nearly 450 7-Eleven stores across North America are closing for underperforming, according to the company. Seven & I Holdings, 7-Eleven’s Japan-based parent company, announced in an earnings report Thursday that 444 7-Eleven stores are closing because of a dip in sales, particularly cigarette sales, as well as decreased traffic and…